Agricultural transformation is a real possibility in Africa if governments will put in place the right policies, infrastructure and input support for small farmers, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday. Speaking to journalists before t...
Justice Abubakar Umar of the FCT High Court has fixed Oct. 16 to deliver judgment in a suit filed by the EFCC against, one Adeolu Olugbenga, who is accused of forgery and fraud. The EFCC arraigned Olugbenga in 2004 for allegedly conspiring and obtainin...
Equities traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Wednesday ended on negative note with some highly capitalised companies recording price depreciation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the All-Share Index, which opened at 25,947.60, deprec...
The Senate on Wednesday appealed to the Federal Government to invoke Article 61 of the International Court of Justice statute to appeal against the judgment ceding Bakassi to Cameroon. The Senate's appeal followed a debate on a motion entiltled &ls...
Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, a member of the National Assembly, on Wednesday said she had set aside N1.3 million for the welfare of 1,300 elderly persons in the Lagos Central Senatorial district. The lawmaker disclosed this in Lagos at the 4th edition of the L...
It was a beautiful Monday morning, characterized by the usual heavy traffic which has now become a trade-mark of the Federal Capital Territory on weekdays. So much hustling and bustling, cars blaring their horns and commercial bus drivers working their...
Recently, residents of Abuja have continued to decry the indiscriminate way some government agencies in the city operate. Molestation and brutality has been the order of the day. Anthony Ada Abraham reports on the various ways this ‘men’ do...
It may be regarded as dividends of democracy. But the fact remains that Lagos State has become a giant construction site with the man at the helm of affairs in haste to deliver. One area the present administration led by Mr. Babatunde Fashola has stamp...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last week re-admitted the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, into its fold. Making the disclosure to newsmen after the meeting, National Publicity Secretary of the part...
The Acting Director-General of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Engr. Mohammed Haruna, says the agency has the capacity to electrify satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), if given an opportunity...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has given area councils in the territory a clean bill of health as regards their performance, saying they are “doing their best.” This is against public outcry by resid...
To spell out the limits of any proposition, is not to give a dog a bad name, but a way of expanding future outcome of an enterprise. PDP emerged after the elections of 1999 with a huge, seemingly undeflatable balloon of national good will. Meanwhile, n...
Brigadier-General J. O. J. Okoloagu (rtd.), a chieftain of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in this interview with MIKE UBANI, argues that the provision of jobs to unemployed youths and the conduct of free, fair and credible elections would help...
In this report GEORGE AGBA examines the recent directive issued by President Goodluck Jonathan, suspending the introduction of the N5000 note against the background of an age long feud between the National Assembly and Central Bank Governor, Mallam San...
Nemesis has finally caught up with three suspected robbers , who specialise in inter- state gun running as they were paraded by the Lagos State police command yesterday. Speaking with journalists at the command headquarters in Ikeja, Manko ...