Dr. Ifeanyichukwu Ifedi was recently appointed an Honorary Consul-General to Nigeria by the Government of Belize. He serves on the Board of Nigerians in the Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) Americas as the regional director for Central/South America and th...
The United States government has lauded the electoral reforms of Nigeria that led to the success recorded during the last general elections. Briefing reporters after the meeting with Nigerians in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday night, a senior member of...
An expert in the workings of the Nigerian stock market has attributed the weak pricing mechanism as a major factor that compels multinational companies to exit from the nation’s equity market and inhibits new ones from being listed. The chief exe...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has explained how the Unique Taxpayer Identification Number (U-TIN) could shore up states’ revenue. Giving explanation on this, the chairman, FIRS, Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, said the U-TIN project, which had...
Although housing is one of the basic needs of mankind, the inability of successive governments in Nigeria to effectively tackle the problem of housing has cast a huge question mark on their capabilty to deliver, even if they fared fairly in other secto...
A legal practitioner has called for the harmonisation of the various codes of corporate governance in the country to address the problem of conflicts of interest posed by the relationship among owners, shareholders, managers and other key stakeholders ...
The slow pace in the growth of the nation’s bond market has been blamed on lack of reliable credit rating system in the country. Managing director and chief executive officer of Cowry Asset Management Limited, Mr Johnson Chukwu, &nb...
Unknown gunmen suspected to be assassins have shot to death Superintendent of Police Mohammed Isiyaka, who was until his death, the divisional police officer, Kwami Police Divisional Headquarters in Kwami local government area of Gombe State. A source ...
Facts have emerged as to why the newly acquired United States warship is still in the United States of America as against the original plans for it to set sail for Nigeria shortly after it was donated to the Nigerian Navy by the United States Coast Gua...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday said it had the capacity to monitor the sources of funds from foreign countries, including Arab sources, meant for the financing of Islamic Banking in Nigeria. There have been speculations t...
The Supreme Court had granted the application of the Adamawa State gubernatorial candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), seeking the right to appeal against the Court of Appeal decision which held that the ...
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has advised the new ministers to brace up to the challenge of total transformation in all sectors of the economy, to salvage the nation. Mark said Nigeria is no longer a toddler whose first falt...
The Edo State government has been urged to pay N445.92 million being the 2008 to 2010 counterpart fund, to FADAMA III programme. This is to enable the state access the N1.22 billion of the programme’s funds. This was contained in a memo sent by t...
The Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi, has promised to review the performances of all the concessionaires in the aviation industry with a view to exploring opportunities for enhanced service delivery. Odua-Ogiemwonyi who disclosed this at t...
Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir el-Rufai, is one Nigerian who does not need any introduction. Right from the days he was in charge of the nation’s privatisation agency as the director-general of the Bureau of P...