A former aspirant for the post of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national Youth leader and Initiator/National Coordinator of Youth-Rural Empowerment and Advocacy Project (YouthREAP), Hon. Solomon Bamola Gowin, in this interview with John Oba, arg...
The need and importance of a national Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) databank for a rapidly growing nation like Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. DNA databank has been proven to be very useful in almost all spheres of life but particularly useful in the h...
The National Software Policy Committee (NSPC) has presented the National Software Policy (NSP) for Nigeria to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). During the formal presentation in Abuja, the Chairman of the committee, Prof. ...
Once again, the House of Representatives are in the storm of another bribery scandal, coming two months after the suspension of the Committee on Capital Markets, led by Herman Hembe. In the latest scandal, the Chairman of the ad-hoc committee on Fuel S...
The Executive director, Media Rights Agenda, MRA Mr. Edetaen Ojo has called for the involvement of major stakeholders across different sectors of the society in the full implementation of the Freedom of Information FOI Act. Speaking at the opening of a...
Shock and disbelief were yesterday written boldly on the faces residents of Onitsha as Governor Peter Obi in the early hours of the morning stormed the town to flag off the demolition of illegal structures and personally supervised it along the Upper I...
President Goodluck Jonathan will today (Tuesday) leave the country to attend the United Nations’ Earth Summit, RIO+20, opening in Brazil tomorrow. A statement by his special adviser on media and publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati noted that Jonathan wou...
The Chairman, Presidential Technical Committee on Land Reform (PTCLR), Professor Peter Adeniyi has assured land owners in the country not to panic over land reform, and said that it was not meant to repeal the Land Use Act, but to strengthen capacity f...
Former Minister of Interior and Chairman Genesis Worldwide Shipping, parent company of Integrated Oil & Gas Ltd, Capt. Emmanuel Ihenacho (retd.) has foretold that oil subsidy budget by the federal government for 2013 fiscal year will surpass the N8...
The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kaduna State, Rev. Samuel Kujiyat, on Monday urged the people in the north to resolve the on going crises in the region. Kujiyat, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ...
Road accident rate now stands at 4,000 yearly in Nigeria, but the FRSC says it is working to reduce the rate by half by 2020. Mr. Osita Chidoka, the Corps Marshal of Federal Road Safety Commission, made this known in Jos on Monday in a message to road ...
The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) and the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) on Monday condemned the explosions in Zaria and Kaduna and the reprisals in parts of Kaduna State on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that three bombs explode...
Arik Air has begun a partnership with Lufthansa of Germany for the local maintenance of Arik aircraft to ensure flight safety. Capt. Ado Sanusi, Arik Air Vice President for Flight Operations, confirmed this to journalists in Lagos after their tour of t...
Mr Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of CBN, on Monday said that the donation made by the bank to bomb blast victims was within the confines of the law. Lamido said this at an investigative hearing on the expenditure of public fund by the CBN and the ...
Participants on Monday converged on Lagos ahead of a conference by 20 African countries to discuss ways of ridding the continent of substandard products. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as a prelude to the meeting, some of the participati...