Nigeria is blessed with abundant raw materials, yet its economic growth is not encouraging. A recent report showed that poor utilisation of its local raw materials is a contributing factor. CHINYERE AMALU writes. Over dependence on the imported raw mat...
What is your assessment of this country? To me, I will say I knew Nigerian colony of British Empire. And independence was granted to us, it’s not easy to say what we have gone through but my description of Nigeria is that Nigeria is like an old m...
FRANCIS AGBO (Abuja) and OSA OKHOMINA (Yenagoa) chronicle the electoral deficits of Governor Timipre Sylva ahead of the 2012 governorship polls in Bayelsa State. In Bayelsa State, the fear of Famou Tengbei used to be the beginning of wisdom until recen...
SAKIN BABALOLA in Ibadan writes on the intrigues trailing the death and burial of Chief Kolapo Ishola, former governor of Oyo State. Williams Shakespeare, it was, who says in Julius Caesar that when beggars die, there are no comments seen but “he...
Former speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole may have stirred the hornet’s nest with his alleged purchase of his official residence for N45m and his reported deal to rent it to his successor, Hon Aminu Tambuwal, for N40m. T...
Reforms in the Nigerian maritime sector have been kick-started. The minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday reduced agencies at the nation’s seaports to six, cutting off eight from having any permanent presence at the ports. This ...
The National and State House of Assembly Election Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta on Monday dismissed the petition filed by former Speaker, House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) rep...
Three soldiers were injured on Monday after a vehicle of the Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order was hit by an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) at Dalla, Maiduguri. JTF spokesman Lt. Col. Hassan Ifijeh told newsmen in Maiduguri that a ci...
Street trading, which for two years was stopped within Onitsha metropolis, has re-surfaced with the approach of Christmas, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN correspondent, who went round the commercial city on Monday, observ...
Brig.-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia, the Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has directed employers of corps members to provide accommodation for them or risk being declared ``unfriendly to the scheme''. The director-general...
The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has stated that due to loss of gas, it would be shutting down five power stations to carry out maintenance work. In a statement from the management yesterday, the Nigeria Gas Company Limited (NGC) gave a noti...
Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala recently announces that the country was on the verge of securing a loan of $550 million from the World Bank to revamp the Agricultural Sector and also create jobs for many Nigerians. In this report, Kazeem Akin...
Due to several petitions to the House of Representatives on alleged irregularities in the nationalisation of banks, the Committee on Capital Market and Financial Institutions has disclosed that the matter would be investigated. Chairman of the Committe...
The long awaited implementation of number portability is set to begin with the appointment by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) at the weekend of a consortium of three companies to implement the proposed services in Nigeria. Number portabili...
NICON Insurance Plc has disclosed plans to introduce at least two new insurance products to the insurance market to further maintain its flagship in the insurance industry. The managing director of the company, Mr. Emmanuel Jegede, made the disclosure ...