Following the sustainable depression in the equity market, stockbrokers yesterday bemoaned the failure of government to salvage the situation even as they insisted that the government’s economic transformation agenda would fail unless urgent step...
Described as one of the best in event management, Pembi Stephen-David writes that Hek Jays is never backward in making each event it manages an affair to remember. It is completely unlike any wedding ceremony that was organised here. No rushing to get ...
The chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, is to lead a 150-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Election Observer Mission to monitor Liberia’s presidential polls scheduled for Octo...
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has stressed the importance of the judicial system to the nation’s democracy and economy, saying a sound judicial system was necessary to attract foreign direct investments (FDIs) into the country. Governor Osh...
The Akwa Ibom State governor, Godswill Akpabio, had approved the appointment of the Emir of Kazaure, Jigawa State, HRH Najib Hussaini Adamu (CON), as the first Chancellor of the Akwa Ibom State University. In a statement issued yesterday and made avail...
As members of Lagos State House of Assembly resumed sitting yesterday after a six week recess, members have decided to shun debate on the allegation of misappropriation of fund levelled against the speaker, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji. The speak...
Governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo has promised to employed about 1,450, graduates from across the state. The governor gave this indication, following reports of disturbances in Dukku local government by some yout...
The Benue State governor, Dr. Gabriel Suswam has pledged that his government and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not go into any violent act or join issues with the opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). Reacting to the ...
Former governor of Kogi State and candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the coming gubernatorial election in the state, Prince Abubakar Audu, has said he is seeking the state’s top leadership seat in order to rescue the state from misr...
Investors’ wealth in the Dangote Group of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) appreciated last week as Dangote Flour Mills paid a dividend of N1.9 billion for the year ended December 31, 2010. This brought the total dividend pai...
Management of Arik Air said yesterday that it would launch services from Abu Dhabi International Airport next month. Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) and Nigeria’s largest international carrier said operations would start on Tuesday Novemb...
As Nigeria celebrates, no concrete steps have been taken in the last years to support agriculture, despite the potential of the sector as a means of unlocking the wealth of the land for the benefit of the people, government has failed to give the secto...
The Chief Executive Officer of Power Holding Company of Nigeria(PHCN), Chris Okaa Akamnonu, has promised that the company would optimise electricity power generation to the benefit of the consumers. The PHCN boss gave the assurance while fi...
The Local Content Model being implemented in Nigeria has been adopted by Royal Dutch Shell for use across the company’s global operations. To implement this successfully, Nigerian model, Simbi Wabote, the immediate past Ge...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has commended residents of the capital city for their peaceful conduct and demonstration of patriotism throughout the nation’s 51st independence anniversary celebration. The ...