Nigeria would require about $67 billion over the next four years to fill the infrastructural gap in the country towards realising the Vision 2020. Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who stated this at the Africa Regional Public Privat...
As the Nigerian and British Governments strive to resolve the air impasse that resulted in the reduction of British Airways slots to Lagos Airport, Nkem Osuagwu writes on the need to ensure that reciprocity is maintained in Bilateral Air Services Agree...
A workshop held in the United Kingdom has suggested the mandatory inclusion of a health warning on air tickets, as on cigarette packets, to warn passengers of the dangers of inhalable toxic chemical in aircraft cabin air. The W...
The Kaduna State Government has spent over N10 million to evacuate drainages in an effort to avert flooding in Kaduna metropolis. The state Commissioner for Environment, Mr Zakariya Shamaki, who announced this yesterday in Abuja in an inter...
Nasarawa State government has said that it would increase investment in education to improve infrastructure and provide instructional materials in primary and post primary schools. The State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-makura, made this known in his...
The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, has disclosed that the chairperson of Primus Hospital in India, Dr. Achla Dewan, plans to establish a centre for specialised surgeries in ...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, is to inaugurate 5,000 ethics marshals in Abuja to stem examination malpractices in Nigeria. Founding Chairman of the Exams Ethics Marshals International, Mr Ike ...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Mr Emmanuel Abalaka, yesterday, urged a Federal High Court in Abuja to nullify the nomination of Captain Idris Wada as the party’s governorship candidate for the December 3 election in Kogi State on the...
The demand for dollars surged yesterday as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) could only meet 36 per cent of demand. As a result, the naira shed 168 kobo against the dollar at the official market. At the interbank, the naira also depreciated...
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has disclosed that Nigeria’s total public debt (domestic and external) currently stands at N6.1 trillion. The Director General of DMO Dr. Abraham Nwankwo made this known yesterday at the commencement o...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday fired back at critics of the National Honours Award, saying he was expecting criticisms as even the most celebrated award, the Nobel peace prize is also being criticised by many. “As I have mentio...
Staff members of the Nigeria Export Processing Zone (NEPZA) have petitioned the minister of trade and investment, Dr.Olusegun Aganga, over the sale of staff estate at Ikot Ekpo, Calabar in Cross River State without recourse to laid-down procedures by t...
The federal government has declared that the Boko Haram menace will soon become a thing of the past as it has perfected a new plan to end it. The Minister of Defence, Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, disclosed this yesterday while declaring open ...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday said that the planned removal of fuel subsidy in January 2012 by the government will lead to serious revolt, because Nigerians will be left without any option than to openly kick against the anti-people polic...
The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benue State to hear afresh on merit, the petition by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prof. Steven Ugbah, challenging the election of Gove...