Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Suleiman Kawu Sumaila (ANPP, Kano) has commended President Goodluck Jonathan over the appointment of Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar as the acting new Inspector-General of Police. In a statement iss...
Former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank, Erastus Akingbola, has urged a Fedral High Court in Lagos not to accede to the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, to have his case transferred from Justice Charles Achibong t...
Benue State Governor, Mr. Gabriel Suswam has solicited for the maximum cooperation of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to enable the Federal Government tackle the activities of Boko Haram in the country. Suswam, who made t...
Months after the April post-Presidential violence that rocked Kaduna State, the Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa is still lamenting that the incident set the State back in terms of development. He said that the“the violence has robbed the State o...
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, has said that the removal of subsidy on fuel by the Federal Government was based on an agreement the government signed with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) under former President Olusegun Obasanjo to keep t...
The Northern Peoples Forum in the United States, Zumunta, has condemned the recent bomb blast in Kano that brought in its wake death and destruction. In a condolence message to the people of Kano State, Zumunta Association, USA extended its condolence ...
The American Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Terence McCulley, has reaffirmed the desire of the American Government to continue to collaborate with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in its task of fighting economic and financial crimes. He ...
Y .Y. Sani is a consultant on metering to the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI)and has years of experience in the oil and gas industry. In this interview with SHUAIB SHUAIB, he says the oil industry is already shrouded i...
The Federal Government needs to be decisive in dealing with the insecurity problem currently portraying the nation in bad light in order to attract foreign investors into the country and promote economic and industrial development, writes FLORENC...
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has decried the huge infrastructure need of the country stressing that it was still a major challenge to the financial sector. According to a statement from the apex bank yeste...
The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) has been said to be central to deepwater offshore exploration and production activity in Nigeria. This was stated by the Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo), Chike Onyejekwe, ...
Performance indicators of equities at the Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE) inched up yesterday by 0.14 per cent as investors were still trading with caution to minimise loss and maximise returns. The market capitalisation added N9.23 billion, while the All...
The House yesterday summoned the immediate past executive secretary of the Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency, Engr. Goody Egbuji, to appear today to answer to massive allegation of fraud in the agency while he was in charge. The Reps Ad-h...
The food and beverage sub- sector of the Nigerian economy is thriving with about 14 compan...
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) on Tuesday expressed support for the March 2 date slated for the burial of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. Chief Ifeanacho Oguejiofor, the party’s National Director of Publicity, said in Abuja on Tues...