As Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima marks his first year in office amidst security challenges, the governor opens up on why the state cannot be described as a failed state. He also speaks about Nigerian leaders’ obligation to provide honest a...
Gabriel Suswam, the Governor of Benue State, laments on how the North as a region is losing out in its economic activities due to the security challenges across the country. In this interview with ISAIAH BENJAMIN, he reiterates the commitment of the Go...
In what federal lawmakers described as a “national embarrassment”, the House of Representatives yesterday launched an inquest into the role played by the federal government and two multinational oil giants (Agip and Shell) in the alleged ro...
No less than five persons were roasted to death in the early hours of yesterday after a multiple accident that occurred at Ibafo, a few kilometers to the Redeemed Camp when a trailer loaded with PMS, popularly called petrol, rammed into some trucks par...
Niger State Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has given a strong indication that the state government and the federal government alongside other investors will construct another hydroelectric dam in the Gurara Local Government Area of the...
A Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State, has ordered the authorities of the Central Navy Command of the Nigerian Navy to hand over two oil vessels seized along the waters of Bayelsa State for alleged involvement in the illegal lifting of crude...
Following media reports that he canvassed votes for incumbent Edo Governor Adams Oshiomhole, former Governor of Edo State, Professor Oserheimen Osunbor, has refuted some of the comments ascribed to him, just as he maintained that the performance of Osh...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has denied the PDP’s accusation that the party was behind the protests by the students of University of Lagos (UNILAG) against the federal government’s decision to change the institution’s name to ...
A report by international audit firm, KPMG yesterday revealed that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) inefficiency in dealing with demurrage, cost the country of 65million dollars between 2007 and December2010. The audit firm whose ...
The Chairman Niger State Action Congress of Nigeria ( ACN ),Captain Abubakar Isah Mokwa has said that the planned merger between the party and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), was the only way the needed change within the nation’s pol...
The remains of the late vice chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) now Moshood Abiola University (MAU), Prof. Babatunde Shofoluwe was yesterday laid to rest at the Ikoyi Vaults, Lagos. The burial rites began since Friday, May 25, 2012 with a s...
The Government of Enugu State has completed arrangements for the acquisition of Nigerian Coal Corporation Headquarters along Okpara Avenue, Enugu, at a cost of N200million and Colliery Hospital Complex along old Onitsha road, New Market, also own...
A 300-level student of Physics and Astronomy of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Mr. Onyebuchi Okonkwo yesterday committed suicide over a yet-to-be ascertained reason. A source told our correspondent that the deceased hung himself in an uncompleted...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has adopted the National Identification Number (NIN) as the only acceptable means of identification for institutions across the country from January next year. The adoption of NIN, the apex bank said, was in a bid to e...
The fines imposed by the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) on the four operators of Global System for Communication (GSM) for quality of service breach have reached N1.24 billion even as a meeting called at the instance of the operators failed to...