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...
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...
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has approved new investigation into the plane crash that killed Mozambican President, Samora Machel. Mr Paul Ramaloko, Spokesman of the South African criminal investigation agency known as `Hawks’ confirm...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday said it would transform the Nigerian Capital Market to gateway of African Capital Markets. Mr Oscar Onyema, the Chief Executive Officer of the Exchange said this in Lagos at the 11TH Annual National Compet...
The Lagos State Gov., Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Wednesday, cautioned residents to desist from giving false information while processing land documents. Fashola gave the warning in a news release signed by Mrs Bola Akingbade, spokesperson, Ministry...
The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Hon. Zakari Mohammed, in this interview with ABDULLAHI OLESIN, speaks on sundry national issues, including the vexed issues of subsidy removal and the ongoing constitution amendment process. He declares tha...
Imagine this scenario. You are at home watching a late night programme on your favourite television channel on June 16, 2015, then its midnight and into the early hours of June 17, picture quality on your television becomes blurred, you try to switch c...
Once again, Nigerians have been assured of the completion of the dualisation work on the 250km Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja Expressway which contract was initiated in 2009. The Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, accompanied by some senior officials of the minis...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, warned federal government agencies to stop flouting rules and regulations guiding fiscal discipline, particularly the deliberate act of refusing to retire their accounts or retiring it late. Speaking during the o...
The Senate Joint Committee investigating alleged mismanagement of pension fund, yesterday, ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, to arrest the chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, over his ref...
Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima, yesterday, warned that Nigeria was sitting on a time bomb ready to explode unless the causes of conflict and insecurity were properly addressed. He said, “unless we address the underlying causes of conflicts,...