Shop owners in Lagos have decried poor patronage ahead of Tuesday’s Valentine’s Day celebration, according to a survey. A correspondent who visited some gift shops and supermarkets in some parts of the metropolis, reports that the traders w...
Following the torturing and dumping into a well of a 16 year old boy, Chidera Nnorom, by a purported vigilante group at Chokoneze in Aboh Mbaise LGA of Imo State, the community members have reportedly to desert...
An official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Davis Ibrahim, yesterday denied the charge of fraud preferred against him by the agency. Ibrahim, who claimed innocence through his lawyer, Mr E. D. Onyeke, told an Ikeja High Court in...
The Bauchi airstrip was closed for renovation last year and was officially declared open for use by Gov. Isa Yuguda of Bauchi on Monday. The airstrip was closed by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on grounds of safety after the plane of the ...
Katsina State Government says it has earmarked N1.7 billion for the purchase of modern equipment for the state’s owned radio and television stations this fiscal year. The Commissioner for Information, Culture, Tourism and Home Affairs, Alhaji Gid...
Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers says the country’s oil and gas industry is characterised by high profile fraud. Amaechi spoke on Monday in Port Harcourt at the commissioning of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGAS...
The Kebbi government has secured approval from the CBN to establish 16 additional branches of micro-finance banks in some local government areas of the state. Alhaji Bello Tuga, the Commissioner for Works and Housing, disclosed this...
The ongoing burial arrangement for the Ikemba of Nnewi, Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu, on Monday, stalled the prosecution of the Igbo Community Welfare Association, President, Chief Augustus Amachi in Kaduna. Amachi was to appear before a Kaduna Chief Magistra...
A housewife, Caroline (other names removed) has been banished for allegedly committing an adultery with a motorcycle spare parts dealer in Obiaruku, Ukwani Local Government area of Delta State. The spare parts dealer, simply identified as Uchenna...
The national body of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) yesterday told the federal government to immediately punish the culprits of the last post-election crises or forget the war against insecurity. According to the JIN: “Perpetrators of last...
The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) yesterday in Lagos urged President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that the planned reduction in the 2012 federal budget would translate into meaningful development. The President of C...
Despite claims of mind- boggling strong economic growth by the government of the day, facts have emerged that figures bandied about may not afterall reflect the actual reality on ground according to a statement from the office of the Nation...
Dangote Cement has urged the federal government to invest more on infrastructure to enable it absorb its anticipated increase in cement production. Special Assistant to Alhaji Aliko Dangote on cement,Mr Joseph Makoju, made the call in an in...
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) yesterday directed owners of abandoned and unserviceable aircraft in all the nation’s airports to remove them within 30 days or face sanctions. The latest directive of ...
Former Minister of Commerce and aspirant to the office of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Idris Waziri has said that genuine desire to provide a credible and purposeful leadership for the party are among th...