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 ...
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has announced the postponement of annual e-Nigeria conference scheduled to commence today. Director General of NITDA, Cleopas Angaya, who did not give details for the postponement, said it was ...
Panasonic Corporation one of the global leading electronic companies has said it was targeting net sales of about N1.6 trillion ($104.8 billion) at the end of the 2011 current year. The Promoter, Panaserv Nigeria Limited, an authorised service ag...
Death tolls arising from cancer has continued unabated. As the world creates awareness on Breast Cancer this month, WINIFRED OGBEBO reports on the trauma and management of the deadly scourge. Globally, the month of October is used to create aware...
Nigeria marked the anniversary of her 51st Independence from colonial rule last Saturday. The celebrations were unusually very low-keyed. The actual reason for scaling down the celebrations is yet to be known officially, except for a non-committal defe...
Commentators on the intractable crisis in Jos, capital of Plateau state, amazingly including those who come from the state, all seem to fail in getting to the roots of the matter and analysing the situation as dispassionately as humanly possible. While...
A speech delivered by President Goodluck Jonathan at the 50th anniversary of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and conferment on him of a honorary doctor of laws degree by GIMPA I would like, first of all, to warmly th...
Being text of presentation by former FCT Minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, at the biennial conference of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in Benin, Edo State, recently... This biennial conference is being held at a time when the people in the Nigerian mass ...
The General Manager (Legal) of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Mahmud Bayo Alabidun, will proceed to the court today to file a N1billion legal action against the federal government over what he described as “illegal disengag...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Jaba Local Government Area of Kaduna State over the weekend decried the way residents of the southern Kaduna are being molested over an unapproved curfew by soldiers drafted to that area. The Christian umbrel...
Vice-President Namadi Sambo has broken his silence on the the conduct of the 2011 general elections, saying that the Election Petitions Tribunals have exposed the antics of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) by annulling most of its seats in the...
The Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) at an emergency meeting on Saturday night issued a query to Super Eagles’ head coach Samson Siasia. NFA’s Chief Media Officer Ademola Olajire who disclosed this in a p...
Between January and September 2011, 53 people have been reported dead in marina beach in Calabar, Cross River State. The victims were said to have died when they were drown as the boats that conveyed them to various parts of the country capsized ...
Vice President Namadi Sambo has implored governors and leaders of the North-west zone to initiate people-oriented programmes that will enhance the welfare of the citizenry. “We must approach today’s meeting with a clear mind and conscience,...
The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) in Rivers State has expressed regret that political leaders at all levels of government in the country have disconnected themselves from Nigerians, thereby making the citizenry unable to relate to their...