Acting on the alleged rot and monumental fraud going in the petroleum and gas sector, the leadership of the House of Representatives has moved to set up an ad hoc committee that would investigate the sector with a view to correcting the problems bedevi...
The Chairman, Chanchangi Airlines Nigeria Limited, Alhaji Ahmadu Chanchangi has denied sponsoring the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. A magazine publication had mentioned him among one of the men behind the Boko Haram terror group. Chanchangi stated this whi...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has led a Kenya-based American investor to inspect about 30,000 hectares of marshy land in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State for possible commercial rice cultivation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report...
Executive secretary of the Nigerian Copyright Commision, Mr. Bayo Atoyebi has said that piracy has turned rights owner of works into paupers. Bayo in his opening remark at the one day training workshop for management and staff of the Nigerian Press Cou...
Nigeria is vulnerable to food crisis like any other country in the world, the President of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), an agency of the UN, Dr Kanayo Nwanze has warned. He gave the warning yesterday in Abuja when he featured...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has explained why it has delayed prosecuting key players who allegedly masterminded the shady privatisation and commercialisation of government business concerns across the country. Speaking with LEAD...
The House of Representatives has amended its Standing Orders to serve as a check on dissenting members.It has amended clause 12 to rein in would – be erring members. Also, it has created a special committee to carry out oversight function on the ...
Niger State Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has said the successful launch of Nigeria Sat 2 and Nigeria Sat X into orbit in Russia, was a big leap in the nation’s quest for technological breakthrough. Governor Aliyu said the launch of t...
One characteristic of money is that, ‘it must be generally acceptable’. But that characteristic seems to apply differently here in Nigeria as coins are rejected by Nigerians for one reason or another; many have complained about its weight, ...
The word ‘glorious’ connotes “having or deserving great fame, praise and honour”. In other words, a glorious family is one characterised by illumination. A glorious family possesses the ...
Freedom is an experience everyone desires. Possibilities abound for those who are truly free from any form of bondage. This is especially true of believers, Christian ministers, pastors, preachers and leaders. When believers and Christian servants are ...
Any nation without infrastructural facilities denies its citizens certain socio-economic rights, and such a city will suffer setbacks in carrying out its statutory responsibilities. CHIKA OKEKE writes on the absence of amenities in the satellite towns ...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), founded in 1978 following a merger of the Nigerian Trade Union Congress (NTUC), Labour Unity Front (LUF), United Labour Congress (ULC) and Nigerian Workers’ Council (NWC), is witnessing its biggest challenge ye...
The Federal Ministry of Works has recently begun works on the dilapidated Oshodi/Apapa Expressway, the nation’s main seaports road after series of media reports and public outcry. However, amidst government’s denial, insider information rev...
It is a verbiage war most expected. The verbal confrontation between two former military heads of State, Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida has exposed the mutual suspicion that exists in power circle and of course, it was just a matter of time fo...