The nation’s foreign exchange reserves fell to $32.3 billion by September 2, the same level they were on June 24, and down from a 6-month high in August, the central bank’s latest figures showed yesterday. The nation’s foreign reserve...
The nation’s banking industry ratings could be upgraded as capital ratios are expected to rise to 20 per cent next year, from their current 14 per cent, the country’s oldest ratings agency told Reuters yesterday. A senior Agusto & Co. o...
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the construction of 765KV super-grid transmission network to address the nation’s power challenge, Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, has disclosed. The minister made the disclosure yesterday at a speci...
For the purpose of economic growth and development, job opportunity and generation of wealth, the federal government is proposing to carry out a comprehensive restructuring of the Free Trade Zones (FTZs) in the country. FTZs are special industrial and ...
Since President Goodluck Jonathan revealed the idea of a single term six-year tenure for the president and state governors, a lot has been written, ridiculing him for his astonishing misplacement of priorities. There have also been a few voices in his ...
Since the conduct of the re-scheduled National Assembly polls in April 2011, the good people of Anambra North Senatorial zone have not been represented in the upper legislative chamber partly because of the series of legal challenges mounted by differe...
People do things for different reasons. Most of the time, we daily go about our business without ever stopping to give a thought to why school-age children are on the streets hawking instead of in school. The need to earn a living is why 21-year-old Fo...
We all know who the paper boy is. He’s the newspaper vendor who brings the dailies to your office, or sells to you along the streets or at traffic junctions. But who are the ‘paper girls’? CHRISTIANA ESEBONU writes that in a bid to su...
Osa Okhomina, Yenagoa Correspondent uncovers Governor Sylva’s many battles for his re-election bid in 2012. When hundreds of disabled persons converged at the Isaac Boro Peace Park to offer prayers for the re-election of the Bayelsa State Governo...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday hinted that the new policies governing imports currently being prepared by the Economic Management Team would have a five-year tenure. This, the president, said would enable the government, its agencies and other s...
The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) has placed a ban on tree felling in the Federal Capital Territory. Dr Abubakar Yabo, Director of the AEPB, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja. Yabo sa...
The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Dr. Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to use all security and intelligence network at his disposal to unmask the sponsors of the dreaded Boko Haram sect and deal with them decisively. Respo...
The Kaduna State Government has donated N250,000 to the family of Warrant Officer Abel Marcus of 1 Division, Intelligence Group, Nigerian Army, who died in May while on a national assignment during the post-election violence in the area, the News Agenc...
Gombe State Deputy Governor, Mr. David Miyims Albashi, yesterday left the Federal Medical Centre, Gombe, for the National Hospital, Abuja, from where he was said to have been airlifted to Germany for more medical treatment. The deputy governor, who was...
A person facing theft charges before a Magistrates’ Court in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has claimed it was his first time of stealing. Azuna Okafor, 22, of Sauka Kahuta village, Abuja, who was arraigned before Justice Hadiza Shagari of...