Edwin Ume-Ezeoke Passes On
Former Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke is dead. He died Monday, in India. Read details later
I Don’t Support Single Tenure – Fayemi
The proposed six-year single term tenure for president and governors being promoted by President Goodluck Jonathan has received a hard knock from Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Fayemi who was responding to questions on his monthly media chat,...
Assembly Workers Lock Out Edo Legislators Over Minimum Wage
The strike embarked upon by staff of Edo State House of Assembly yesterday took a new dimension as angry workers locked out the Speaker, Hon. Uyi Igbe and other principal officers from parliamentary proceedings over their non-inclusion in the new minim...
NERC Urges Siemens To Own Power Plants
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...
NCDMB Issues Deadline On Oil Equipment Import
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...
‘Only Desperate Actresses Are Sexually Harassed’
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 ...
Libel: Buhari Drags Abati To Court
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...
Boko Haram: Court Denies Bail To Police Officer
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...
New Foreign Policy Must Reflect National Interest – President
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...