Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, yesterday issued “a second and final warning” to the management of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and its 18 successor companies to pay their workers the enhanced salary package negotiated b...
It was mixed outcome for the naira yesterday as it appreciated at the interbank market and weakened at the official window after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) failed to meet demand.At the bi-weekly wholesale Dutch Auction, only $180 million was sup...
The Managing Director of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Plc (PAN), Alhaji Shehu Sani Dauda yesterday unveiled the latest Peugeot 508 Saloon at their Corperate Office, Mabushi, Abuja.At the unveiling of the 508, Alhaji Shehu Sani Dauda said: “the car ...
It is a new dawn for Nigerian pensioners with the establishment of Presidential Task Force Team on Pension Reform. WILLIAMS ORJI writes on the challenges facing this team and the need for the body to be given a maximum support. When the Presidential Ta...
The recent decision of members of the lower Chamber of the National Assembly to purchase 380 cars at the sum of N2.3b has raised dust among the critical members of the public as the purchase contravenes the monetization policy of government, writes BAY...
Fred Itua takes a look at the factors that might work against Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s return to Osadebe House in next year’s governorship elections in Edo State. Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State no doubt is very popular. The...
Niger state government has opened public bidding for its N9billion bond project with 34 construction companies and nine consulting firms participating.The state commissioner of works, Dr. Ibrahim Sule, who supervised the bidding with a team of the Stat...
Newly appointed special adviser to the president on political affairs, Ali Ahmed Gulak, said that the dismissal of the petition brought before the Presidential Tribunal by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) against President Goodluck Jonathan&nb...
The standard bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change(CPC), in Kogi State, Chief James Ocholi-SAN has promised to give the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) a shock treatment in the forthcoming gubernatorial poll.He expressed his confide...
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Minna, yesterday, ordered one Mohammed Jemeel Musa, who allegedly killed his wife to be remanded in Minna Prison until December 1 this year when his application for bail will be heard.Musa, a busine...
The Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has appointed Alhaji Abdulmalik Halilu Usman, as the new Gado Damasun Nupe.Halilu, who hails from the Usman Zaki royal family in Bida , started his early education at Sacred Heart Primary School Kaduna before proc...
The presidency has revised the major elements in the revenue framework in the proposed 2012 budget, though the budget proposal is yet to be officially forwarded to the National Assembly for consideration.The director, Budget Office, Dr. Bright Okogu, d...
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) yesterday stated that the issue of workers’ salaries prompted it to share N611 billion to the three tiers of government.The minister of state for finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama, stated this yesterday...
Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said, yesterday, at the Nigerian Army Engineers Rowing Out ceremony tagged ‘Sappers Reunion 2011’ held at the Nigerian School of Military Engineering (NASME), in Makurdi that Nigerians l...
The immediate past Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Mr. Suma’ila Makama, has said that conducting a census requires a lot of courage and sensitisation. Makama made the observation in Abuja on Monday night at a dinner or...