Connected telephone lines in the country has reached 136,038,021 in the month of April, up from 134,913,614 in March this year. New figures released yesterday by the telecom regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) indicated that...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday denied operative right over the United States-based bank, JP Morgan. However, the Executive Director of Finance, Benard Okechukwu who was summoned yesterday by the Senate joint committe...
The Solomon Adeola-led House of Representatives Public Account Committee (PAC) yesterday ordered the management board of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) to refund N27,051,618,579 to the Federation Account within three months - the monies being 80...
The Final Investment Decision (FID) on the two-train Brass Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project would be taken in the first quarter of 2013 the Board has said. Board of the Brass LNG Limited disclosed that the 10 million metric tonne per year (mmt/y) pr...
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have summoned the construction giant, Julius Berger and Federal Controller of Works to appear before it over the postponement of repair work on the Third Mainland Bridge. The Chief Whip of the House, Razaq B...
An operative of State Security Service (SSS), Mr Abdulfaruk Dauda, told a Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday that former spokesman of Boko Haram, Kudunga Abdul, allegedly named Sen. Ali Ndume as a financier of the group. Abdul was summarily se...
Over N8.1billion were recovered from the discovery and closure of some unauthorized bank accounts in Jigawa, Kano and Enugu State. National Programme Manager of the State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability (SPARC), Dr. ...
The United States Embassy in Nigeria has confirmed that it issued a communiqué in which it affirmed that it does not have an agreement with Nigeria over the declaration of assets and budgetary transparency. There had been reports that there is a rift ...
An articulated vehicle driver was on Tuesday arraigned before an Abuja Magistrates' Court in Lugbe, FCT charged with obstructing the Presidential convoy. The accused, Rabiu Sambo, 20, of Pyakasa village, Abuja, appeared on a one-count charge of cau...
An Upper Area Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered that an 11-year-old boy of Tipper Garage Nyanya, Abuja, be given 15 strokes of the cane for stealing. Police prosecutor Silas Nanpan had told the court that on July 2, one, Mustapha Haruna, of Area B, Blo...
The NYSC Coordinator in the FCT, Mr Frank Ekpunobi, on Tuesday assured corps members of adequate security in the territory. Ekpunobi gave the assurance when speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) during the second day of registration exercise a...
The Senate has endorsed the removal of Alhaji Muhammadu Gwaska as Commissioner representing Nasarawa State in the Federal Character Commission (FCC). The Senate's approval followed its consideration of the report of the Committee on Federal Charact...
Dr. Jim Yong Kim resumed duties on Monday as the new World Bank President, stressing the role of the 188-member organisation in helping address global growth risks and providing development assistance. "The World Bank has an economic and moral imp...
Jamaul Taylor aka 'Young Krazzle' is a 26-year-old hip-hop artiste from Madison Heights, Virginia, in the United States of America, who has been in the American entertainment industry for over five years. In this exclusive chat with ANTHONY ADA...
The curfew imposed on Kaduna state following the violence that trailed the bombing of three Churches and subsequent reprisal attacks in the state has been further relaxed across the state. A press release issued by the Senior Assistant on Media to the ...