The Central Bank is planning to deploy a new real time gross settlement system that meets international standard, says the Governor of Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi. Sanusi who spoke on Thursday in Abuja at a book presentation entitled, ‘The ICT Re...
Piqued by the perceived nuisance value of commercial motorcycle operators known as ‘okada’ riders in Lagos governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), yesterday stormed the streets to personally arrest some operators who rode against the traffic.
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has terminated the skills acquisition centre projects at Iguelaba, Edo State, following the contractors’ laxity. The contracts were awarded to M/S Chemtronics Nig. Ltd, (Lot 1), M/...
The House of Representatives yesterday mandated its Committee on Civil Societies and Donor Agencies to investigate all grants and assistance received by Nigeria, as part of efforts aimed at plugging leakages that aid corruption. The lawmakers made this...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the federal government start implementing the 26 percent budgetary allocation to education as recommended by UNESCO which Nigeria is a signatory. He made this call in a press conf...
Two politicians, Chika Madumere and Kemdi Opara, parties in the 2011 election petition tribunals, have asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to declare sections 285 subsections (6) and (7) which provides for the hearing of...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, approved the appointment of Prof Peter Nwilo as the Surveyor General of the federation. The president said that the appointment of Nwilo was based on his track record as “a renowned professor of surve...
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is the governor of Edo State. In this interview with News Agency of Nigeria, he discusses his administration’s huge intervention in the area of infrastructure, job creation and his mission to transform the economy of his ...
Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, has given a one-week ultimatum to Mabon Limited, the contractor handling the Dadinkowa Dam in Gombe State, a project conceived over 30 years ago, to prove its capability or have the contract terminated. The minister...
One of Nigeria’s political parties, the Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJ), has said the arrest of Senator Ali Ndume (PDP, Borno South) by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) over his alleged role in the sponsorship of the Islami...
Chairman, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, has described violence against women (VAW) is an atrocity that should be fought by all citizens. The human rights boss made this comment at the launch of the Network o...
Continued from yesterday My Final Encounter With Farida Waziri Of The EFCC Most Nigerians who have known about my criticism of the EFCC and its current leadership since the past nine months might think that the chairman of the EFCC, Mrs. ...
Smart drugs(cognitive enhancers) have often been used to treat people with neurological or mental disorders, but there is a growing number of healthy, normal people, especially students who use these substances because they want to get smarter. R...
Men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have intercepted a consignment of military uniforms concealed in a luggage of a pilgrim returning from Saudi Arabia. The consignment consists of 23 sets of air force and army uniforms. The customs zo...
Members of the Jama’atul Ahlil Sunna lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, warned that it would, in a few days, embark on massive bombings of political party offices across thecountry to correct the impression that they are agents of...