Dear Compatriots,1. This is the second time in two weeks I will address you on the deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector. In the last seven days, the nation has witnessed a disruption of economic activities. Although, ...
A group known as GEJ/Sambo 2011 Support Group Europe and America has said that President Goodluck Jonathan should be given the chance to cleanse the country for positive transformation . Chairman of the group, Chief Lambert Igboanugo said that Pr...
True to his promise, the Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has taken a bold step to better the lot of widows of the state’s fallen heroes by empowering them with the sum of N20million. The governor said the empowerment programme was aimed ...
Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, said yesterday that the security challenges facing the country emanated from the inability of the country’s security agencies to wake up from their slumber. The governor also admonished the security perso...
Various markets in Akure, the Ondo State capital, witnessed large influx of people yesterday as residents made last minute efforts to stockpile food items in preparation for the continuation of the ongoing mass protest called by labour unio...
The Commissioner of Police in Ekiti State, Mr Olayinka Balogun, has commended the organized labour, civil society groups, police and other security agencies in the state for their orderly conduct during the one-week protest and industrial action ...
Some members of the sacked state executive of the Change Advocacy Party (CAP) in Bayelsa State have asked the state High Court in Yenagoa to declare as illegal the processes that led to the emergence of Dr. Imuro Kubor as the candidate of t...
Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command, Mr. David Omojola has confirmed the arrest of more than 50 suspects in connection with violence and looting during the protest against the removal of fuel subsidy. Omojola told newsmen in Benin Cit...
A housewife and a well known business woman in Asaba, Delta State has allegedly beaten up a police sergeant over love advances to her. Reports said the woman identified as Nkechi (surname removed), who resides along DLA Road in Asaba where she operates...
Governor Godswill Akpabio, of Akwa Ibom State yesterday described the spate of insecurity in the country as a great challenge to the collective freedom of the people. He stated this in his address during the laying of wreath at the tomb of the Un...
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Mr John Kennedy Opara yesterday in Abuja denied the allegation that he took a one-million-dollar bribe from a Turkish airline to approve it for the transpor...
The Vice President for Africa Region at the World Bank, Ms Obiageli Ezekwesili, would be leaving that post in May this year, according to the World Bank President, Bob Zoellick, in a statement from the Washington DC headquarters of the organisation . A...
A conservative estimate has shown that properties worth N2 billion may have been lost to last Wednesday’s violent protest in parts of the Niger State capital, Minna in the ongoing nationwide protest against the removal of subsid...
Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, has called on Nigerians not to allow the nationwide protest against the removal of fuel subsidy override national security. Amadi who made this call in an exclusive inter...
Dangote Cement Plc is targeting a Profit Before Tax (PAT) of N38.5 billion for the first quarter ending March 31, 2012.In a filing at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the company also sees a turnover of N69.16 billion during the first quarter. Accord...