Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State yesterday received commendation for the second time from an unusual quarters, Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope who earlier commended Governor Obi through his Bishop, Paulinus Ezeokafor who had, during his last Ad Limina v...
Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has signed the 2012 appropriation bill of N88, 828, 351, 795.25 into law. It could be recalled on December 22, 2011, the Governor presented a budget estimate of N98, 992, 811,073.50, but later re-presented an...
National Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Bisi Akande, has commiserated with the Ekiti State Government on the death of renowned economist, Professor Samuel Aluko, who passed away on Monday in a London hospital after an illness. ...
Maj-Gen Joseph Okunbor, the Commander, Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Nigerian Army, has warned junior officers who are writing the 2012 Lieutenant-Captain Practical Promotion Examination (LCPPE) to shun examination malpractice. Okunbor gave t...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in Oyo State, has rejected the result of the re-run election held in Irepo/Oorelope/Olorunsogo Federal Constituency which was won by Mr. Afeez Ona-Ara Tijani of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party, in a s...
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has expressed its support for South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to be Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission. The six foreign ministers of SADC unanimously ...
A combined team of Military and State Security Service (SSS) officials in Katsina state have raided a suspected hideout of members of Boko Haram in Katsina metropolis. The newsmen gathered that the officials stormed the area along Dutsinma road near th...
Former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu has debunked report by an online medium, Niger Observer, about his health status, saying that he was hale and hearty. Tinubu, who stated this in a statement by his special adviser on media, Mr. Sunday Dare,...
Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, yesterday faulted the donation of a whopping N100m to victims of Boko Haram attack in Kano recently by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido. His reaction on the issue contained in a statement...
Ashaka Cement Plc, a subsidiary of Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria plc says it is adding 300,000 metric tonnes to its current 1,000,000 production capacity. This would bring its total annual production capacity to 1.3 million metric tonnes. The comp...
The Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, has refuted reports that General Electric (GE) has agreed to construct a 10,000MW power plant in Nigeria. Making the clarification in a statement yesterday, Nnaji said GE “has neither constructed nor agree...
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Mohammed Musa Sada, has said Nigeria has a proven reserve of 620,000 0unces of gold in Ogun State. He also stated that coal resources existed in 13 States of the country with the current exploration resu...
The Register General and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporate Affair Commission (CAC), Barrister Bello Mahmud, has intensified efforts at educating people to register their businesses. Mahmud made this disclosure in an interview with an online econ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has established an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) Fraud Prevention Committee to address risks associated with the use of alternative e-payment channels. The members of the committee include banks, the ...
Umuchinemere Pro-credit Micro Finance Bank (UPMFB), owned by the Catholic Diocese of Enugu has disclosed that it gave out N263,680,000 micro credit fund to a total of 3,860 poor people in the diocese in 2011. It said the gesture was in line...