The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has challenged the German engineering company, Siemens, to transcend its engineering procurement contract business interests in Nigeria to become an active operator in the country’s power sect...
In a bid to further strengthen the implementation of the local content policy, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has issued a directive barring oil and gas operators and contractors in Nigeria from importing any oil sector e...
She did not become popular through acting.No. She was known as a model for one of Nigeria’s popular medicated soaps. After starring in more than few movies, she went off the radar, but in this interview with RUTH CHOJI who met her at the premier ...
A former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change(CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has dragged the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, before a Lagos High Court over alleg...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday turned down a prayer made by one of the police officers accused of killing Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in 2009. Adamu Gado, a sergeant and one of the five accused per...
As Nigeria charts a new foreign policy, President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the nation’s interests must determine whatever policy was adopted. President Jonathan said this at the seminar on review of Nigeria’s Foreign Policy organised...
Scores of female students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, who are undergoing pre-degree programme have fled their hostels at Moro village, on the outskirt of the ancient town, following alleged case of gang rape. The News Agency of Nigeri...
Babatunde Ogunjobi and Abdulgafar Oluwarinu Yusuf have been ordered by an Osogbo Magistrate court to pay N500, 000 as fine for stealing the mobile phone of Osun State governor, Mr. Ruaf Aregbesola. Delivering his ruling on the case, the presiding magis...
Members of the House of Representatives have cautioned former President Olusegun Obasanjo to desist from making inflammatory statements about the Speaker of the House, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal. Obasanjo had recently asked Tambuwal to step down because, acco...
The cold war between the attorney-general and minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke and the chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farida Waziri may have to do with the alleged undermining of Adoke’s office by some forces ...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has decried the attempt by a section of the media (not leadership) to cast the party in bad light, through headlines that are at variance with the report of the National Judicial Council’s (NJC’s) fact-f...
Kaduna State Governor, Mr. Ibrahim Patrick Yakowa has promised that Nigeria will enjoy a stable power supply by the year 2015. This was just as he said that the country’s power supply has improved since the inception of the government of Presiden...
Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has expressed shock and regret at the helicopter crash which claimed the lives of three persons in Ikonifin area of Ola-Oluwa local government area of the state on Friday. Aregbesola stated that as no sooner as the...
A human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana has criticised the stance of President Goodluck Jonathan on the war against corruption across the country, even as he warned against short-circuiting the crusade at the instance of party politicking. Falana, in a ...
What is wrong with our rulers now apparently re-clothe and disguised as leaders to the peril of the rest of us whereas they are all one and the same. The last time we had elections just three plus months ago, I believe amidst all the distractions with ...