Mr Jonathan Nicol, General Secretary of Shippers Association of Lagos State, on Tuesday said that port operators would protest demurrage charges by shipping companies for the recent six-day nationwide strike. Nicol said the importers were surprised to ...
Mr Kazeem Adebanjo, the Chairman, Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Ikorodu Branch in Lagos State, said on Tuesday that lawyers would continue to engage the government on issues that affect the populace. He said with or without strike, the responsibility ...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Nigerians to take advantage of the ongoing dialogue between the Federal Government and labour on the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry to make positive contributions to the disc...
Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday in Mubi, Adamawa, killed a police officer, Cpl. Jubril Abdulkarim. A resident, Malam Idi Baba, said the incident occurred at about 6 a.m. at Wuro-Gude area of Mubi. Baba said the police officer was riding on a motorcycle ...
Global airlines alliance, Star Alliance and ARINC Incorporated have completed testing on a new check-in technology that provides a fast common-use bag drop capability. The three-month trial at Tokyo Narita- Airport was supported by Star All...
Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger has raised a 13-member committee to assess the extent of damage to public and private property during the Jan. 11 riot by youths protesting the removal of fuel subsidy in the country. The Commissio...
It depends on what you mean by biggest. The tallest tree is a coast redwood (sequoia sempervirens) at 115m (379ft) tall, but that with the largest volume is the giant sequoia (sequoiadendron giganteum), which has a more substantial trunk; the tre...
When the history of the national strike, street protests and rallies that followed the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government on January 1, 2012, will be written, the name of Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State will feature prominently. T...
One man that was least expected to attend the meeting of traditional rulers in Imo State, which held on January 11, 2012, at the prestigious Imo Concorde Hotel, was the embattled traditional ruler of Obinugwu Kingdom and former chairman of the state co...
A Magistrates’ Court in Enugu, yesterday, granted bail to the Enugu Labour leader, Mr Ozoeze Festus who was arrested and detained last week for allegedly attempting to breach peace. Uzoeze was arraigned before the court on a two-count charge bord...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has decried the deployment of armed troops to the streets of Lagos, describing it as undemocratic. The party, in a statement in Lagos, yesterday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that ...
The South East caucus of the House of Representatives has urged traditional rulers, religious leaders, civil society groups, zonal caucuses of the House of Representatives and other stakeholders to stop targeted killings of Ndigbo in the northern part ...
The Bauchi State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has expressed dismay over the sudden suspension of the nationwide strike against the removal of fuel subsidy describing it as an embarrassment. The state Labour chairman,...
President of the National Council of Women Societies in Nigeria, Chief Nkechi Okenmiri-Mba, yesterday, described the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Oujkwu as a brave and intelligent leader who was willing to accommodate anybody regardless ...
Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that “failed politicians- turned -overnight comrades are the ones worsening the problem of Nigeria, despite the efforts of the present administration to address them.” Obi, in an evening broad...