The Senate and the House of Representatives have passed the N161.6billion supplementary budget requested by President Goodluck Jonathan to pay off outstanding fuel subsidy money and to avert fuel scarcity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations....
Military authorities said yesterday that soldiers had arrested 63 people in Delta State during raids aimed at finding the finance minister’s 82-year-old mother, Prof Kanene Okonjo, who was kidnapped from her home on Sunday. It is not yet known wh...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, asked Nigerians to expect a more improved outing for the country in 2013, and said that by next year, his government was determined to bring desired changes on security, power, aviation and other areas of n...
The Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) has approved the payment of six months out of the 11 months salary arrears owed workers of the Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL). The acting Director-General of the bureau, Mr Benjamin Diki, announced th...
No fewer than six persons were killed on Wednesday night in a multiple accident which occurred at Aviele along Benin-Auchi Road, Edo State while 18 others were seriously injured. According to Edo State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commis...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is the highest revenue generating agency for 2012, with N114,237,257,078.60 billion paid to the Consolidated Account, the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) Jonah Otunla disclosed yesterday. The AGF at a ...
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions yesterday accused the Group Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, Mr Aigboje Aig-Imokhuede and the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of frustrating its efforts at resolving the disput...
As part of efforts to improve security in the country and curb financial crime, the Nigerian Army is seeking collaboration with the Economic and Financial Crimes Unit, EFCC, in order to ensure that the bid to make Nigeria corruption-free becomes a succ...
The management of Dana Air, yesterday, said that it has commenced the final payment of $70,000 (about N10.5 million) to families of each of the victims of its June 3 Lagos air crash. Head of Corporate Communications, Dana Air, Mr Tony Usidamen, made th...
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke has said that the country had no plans to reform its state oil company NNPC and the way its crude oil was sold. Speaking with journalists at an OPEC meeting in Vienna yesterday, th...
Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo yesterday constituted a committee that would work out the modalities for providing relief for displaced people of Bakassi. The committee headed by the Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Effiok Essien Cobham is to...
Nasarawa State Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura yesterday presented the 2013 appropriation bill of N107, 960,852,627 before the Nasarawa State Assembly. The budget showed a marginal increase of N3.1billion or 2.94% over and above the 2012 budget. Al Maku...
Airtel Nigeria announces the successful completion of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial in Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria and is ready for test in the other major cities across the country including Abuja and Port Harcourt.
Twenty babies, including a set of twins, have been delivered since the 15th Holy Ghost Congress of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) began on Monday at its Camp Ground along the Lagos-Ibadan expressroad. Pastor Enoch Adeboye, t...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Wednesday, said it would be tough on the implementation of the 'use-it-or-lose-it' policy for assigned spectrum. Dr Eugene Juwah, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, disclosed this in Lagos...