Fuel queues yesterday re-surfaced at petrol stations in Abuja and other states of the federation forcing the price of the product to sell at as high as N72 a litre in some filling stations as against the official price of N65 a litre. Our correspondent...
Members of the National Assembly yesterday pointedly told President Goodluck Jonathan, at a meeting in the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, to forget anything to do with removal of the contentious subsidy on petroleum products. The lawmakers adv...
Following reports yesterday of a court order asking the nationalised banks to quit operations, the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Central Bank have assured customers of the banks that their deposits are safe, while maintaining that...
It is only a matter of days before the entire country is thrown into total darkness, following a strike embarked upon by workers in the nation’s power sector. Already, most states of the federation have been thrown into darkness just as access to...
A Bill that sought to amend the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Act, to compel the Federal Government to distribute certain taxes and duties collected by the (FIRS) to the states, yesterday threw the House into a rowdy session as it had to be sto...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday fired back at critics of the National Honours Award, saying he was expecting criticisms as even the most celebrated award, the Nobel peace prize is also being criticised by many. “As I have mentio...
Staff members of the Nigeria Export Processing Zone (NEPZA) have petitioned the minister of trade and investment, Dr.Olusegun Aganga, over the sale of staff estate at Ikot Ekpo, Calabar in Cross River State without recourse to laid-down procedures by t...
The federal government has declared that the Boko Haram menace will soon become a thing of the past as it has perfected a new plan to end it. The Minister of Defence, Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, disclosed this yesterday while declaring open ...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday said that the planned removal of fuel subsidy in January 2012 by the government will lead to serious revolt, because Nigerians will be left without any option than to openly kick against the anti-people polic...
The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benue State to hear afresh on merit, the petition by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prof. Steven Ugbah, challenging the election of Gove...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday finally barred the governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timipre Sylva, from contesting the November 19 governorship primaries, thus ending the cat-and-mouse game that has characterised the clearance process. ...
Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins on Saturday attacked the special adviser to Benue State governor on media and public affairs, Dr. Cletus Akwaya. They pumped bullets into his head. The development came just as Governor Gabriel Suswam descri...
Wonder banks and illegal funds managers have swindled a total of 560,882 customers of the sum of N106.94 billion. The managing director of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Alhaji Umar Ibrahim, stated this at a forum organiz...
Algeria intelligence has said that there are ties between Boko Haram and the Algerian-based north African branch of al-Qaeda, the Reuters Report. Speaking to reporters yesterday in Algiers, capital of Algeria, the Algerian deputy foreign m...
President of the Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has doled out N600m to Kano State Government at the weekend to support its empowerment programme for women and youth. At a colourful ceremony at the Sani Abacha ...