The consistent harassment and threats by Abuja Market Managers Limited (AMML) have taken a different dimension as traders now conduct business in fear of the high and mighty.CHIKA OKEKE writes. Garki Model market is situated along Ladoke Akintola Boule...
In Abuja, where you reside could determine what type of job you get. Michael Oche writes that employers now turn down applicants who reside in border towns like Suleja Victoria had applied for a job in one of the fast food joints in Wuse 11 part ...
The recently held Local Government poll in Lagos State generated intense heat as the two leading parties, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) used the occasion to test their might and popularity. OLAOLU OLADIPO c...
The Igbos are gearing up for a shot at the presidency in 2015, they believe they are legitimate partners in the Nigeria Project and deserve as a matter of right to aspire to call the shots. DAVID-CHYDDY ELEKE in this report, looks at where their argume...
Contrary to several media reports that Primetime Entertainment duo Kenny ‘Keke’ Ogungbe and Dayo Adeneye (D1) have gone their separate ways after over a decade of intimate partnership; D1 via his Facebook account has debunked the possibilit...
Nollywood star Rita Dominic may pass as an outstanding actress but apparently, with the shameful part of her art she displayed at the 2011 edition of ‘The Headies’ (formerly HipHop World Awards), it may not be wrong to describe ...
The private sector under the aegis of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group has pushed for the return of 24-hour operations at Nigerian ports. Chairman of the NESG, Folusho Phillips, who disclosed this, said it was the only way to clear congestion at the ...
Group Managing Director/chief executive officer of Skye Bank Plc, Mr. Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti, has said that the establishment of a common market and the adoption of a common external tariff by ECOWAS member states would promote a viable regional ...
The Urban Development Bank of Nigeria (UDBN) has embarked on a N26.5 billion fund drive under its five-year strategic business plan, its Managing Director, Mr. Adekunle Oyinloye, has said. In a press statement after the bank’s extra-ordinary gene...
Etisalat Nigeria, the fourth Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) operator in Nigeria has invested $2.46 billion in Nigeria to build and expand its telecommunications network infrastructure. The investment which was made over the past three ye...
At a time when some political stakeholders are agitating for the creation of additional states and local government areas in the country, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday questioned the rat...
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have begun intense scramble for the available positions in boards of federal government owned agencies.President Goodluck Jonathan recently dissolved the boards of statutory bodies such as agencies and para...
A piece of legislation to repeal the Banks and other Financial Institutions Act and re-enact a new law is underway in the House of Representatives.The reenactment would bar the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN from fixing interest rates. It also wants the ...
The Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RAFMC), Mr. Elias Mbam, has given assurance that a new revenue allocation formula would be ready by the first quarter of 2012. Mbam, who was fielding questions from newsm...
Following deep rooted interest in who becomes the next national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, there are indications that some frontline contenders may lose out, paving way for a dark horse to emerge. This is just as the party has denied th...