The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday in Abuja approved a new funding structure for the Service Compact with Nigerians (SERVICOM). SERVICOM was established by the Federal Government to monitor quality of service rendered to the public by gov...
The Debt Management Office (DMO) is offering for sale Federal Government bonds worth N83.91 billion, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The DMO, which posted details of the bonds on its Website, said the bids for the bonds opened on Wednes...
The Taraba Police Command has confirmed that three persons- an inspector and two civilians, died in a gun battle between the police and suspected armed robbers in Wukari on Tuesday. This is contained in a statement by the Police Public Relations Office...
An Akure Chief Magistrates’ court has ordered a 38-year-old man, Lomi Akinpelumi, to be remanded in prison custody for allegedly killing his son. The accused is standing trial for the alleged killing of his one-year-old son, Sileola Akinpelumi, b...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday removed Engr. Austen Oniwon as the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and ordered the re-composition of the corporation’s executive management team. The president ha...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has witnessed change of its Group Managing Directors (GMD’s) six times since 1999 to date. Andrew Yakubu, who becomes the corporation’s sixth GMD since Nigeria’s return to democracy i...
Stakeholders in the Nigerian education sector have expressed displeasure with the decision of the National Universities Commission (NUC) to suspend part-time programmes in Nigerian universities. The angst is even more heightened as an estimated 10 mill...
Like a tropical Venice, the town of Abonnema is packed on an island in the Niger delta – a deep river to one side, meandering creeks to another and the pounding Atlantic 40km to the south. In the early days of British colonial rule, it was Nigeri...
Some policemen and gunmen yesterday engaged in a shootout while heavy explosions occured at Gwauron Dutse police station in Dala Local government Area of Kano State. Also heavy explosions and gunshots were heard around Yalwa along Kofar Waika road on A...
The dieting market is chock-a-block with supplements that promise to suppress the appetite. Now scientists have come up with a novel new way to tackle weight-loss - they have found a potential pill that makes you exercise harder instead. Researchers fr...
One of the first signs lung cancer patients remember noticing when they look back is the inability to catch their breath. “I couldn’t even walk across the yard without wheezing. I thought I had asthma, but how come I didn’t have it be...
Recently, Alhaji (Dr) Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Ooni of Ife, the Chairman and Co-Chairman, of the National Council of Traditional Rulers Of Nigeria (NCTRN) receptively converged no fewer than 200 traditi...
Chief Albert K. Horsfall is the former Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS) and the Chairman of the defunct Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC). In this interview with Lawson Hayford, he shares his views on the ...
It is a new song and of course President Goodluck Jonathan bared his fangs when he commenced the process to re-jig his security apparatchik last week. George Agba reports that the security chiefs’ sack signalled an emerging new strategy in the wa...
Many would have thought that the contest to pick the governorship ticket of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ondo State for the October polls would be tough and acrimonious. Rather the process that threw up a one-time president of the Nigerian B...