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NPA Making Nigerian Ports Competitive, Efficient Through Transparent Operations
The board and the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) are eyeing a hub status for the Nigerian port to become the leader in Africa. The initiative has also provoked the necessary support...
View ArticleTaxation: Panacea To Solid Minerals Funding Challenges
The challenge of funding in the mineral and mining sector continues to be a clog in the wheels of the sector’s progress. While many blame the government for lacking the will to fund the sector, many...
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Electoral Reforms: DPC Seeks Stiffer Conditions For Party Registration
The Democratic People’s Congress (DPC) has called for stiffer conditions for the registration of political parties in the country, with a proposal that section 78, subsections 3 and 4 of the Electoral...
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Dangote Flour Records N12bn Profit
Dangote Flour Mills Plc said it has achieved a profit before tax of N11.82 billion for its financial year ended December 31, 2016. In its result on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the group’s profit...
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Experts Hail FG’s 10% Funding For NHF Contributors
Experts in the real estate sector have commended the federal government for accepting to provide 10 percent funding for the National Housing Fund (NHF) contributors seeking loans of N5million and...
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Disagreement Between Legislature, Executive Normal – Presidency
The presidency observed yesterday that disagreement between the legislature and the executive in a democracy was normal and should not be misinterpreted as a rift. Senior special assistant to the...
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PDP Crisis Deepens As Sheriff Storms Out Of Jonathan’s Peace Meeting
Attempts by former President Goodluck Jonathan to end the leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hit rock bottom yesterday as the national chairman of the Party, Sen Ali Modu...
View ArticleAPC To PDP: Your Defectors Are Our Rejected Members In Rivers
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has described as rejects, its members that are currently decamping to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party insisted that its chieftain in...
View ArticleCustoms Impounds N26bn Contraband Goods In Owerri
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) zone C Owerri, has confiscated a number of banned and illegally imported goods with overall Duty Paid Value (DPV) of over N26 billion....
View ArticleSenate Orders FG To Release N15bn Amnesty Funds
The Senate yesterday urged the minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun to release the balance of N15billion left in the 2016 budget to fund the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) to prevent renewed...
View ArticleCourt Unfreezes Patience Jonathan’s $5.9m Account
Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday unfreezed a Skye bank Plc account containing $5,842,316.66 belonging to former first lady Dame Patience Jonathan earlier frozen...
View ArticleOver 25,000 Register As FG Begins Online Registration Of Unemployed
No fewer than 25, 000 persons have registered within the first 24 hours of the commencement of the online registration of unemployed persons in the country by the federal government, checks by...
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Syrian Opposition Welcomes U.S. Strike On Army Airbase
The Syrian opposition on Friday welcomed U.S. strikes against a Syrian government airbase and called for more after two American warships fired dozens of missiles at the airfield in a sharp escalation...
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One Killed As Cultists Strike In Ilorin
There was an uneasy calm in some parts of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital Thursday as gunmen, suspected to be cultists, struck and killed one person. The victim, simply identified as ‘Abbey’ was shot...
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Ikoli Did Not Kill Himself, Say Naval Officers
The late Rear Adm. Daniel Ikoli, the Fleet Commander, Western Naval Command, Lagos, who was found dead at his Apapa residence on April 5, did not kill himself, contrary to some media reports. According...
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Ajimobi Inaugurates APC Elders Council
Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Thursday inaugurated an Elders Council to promote the rejuvenation of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
View ArticleCodeLagos: LASG To Spend N2.5 Billion To Build 500 Coding Centres
The Lagos State Government has disclosed that the sum of N2.5 billion will be expended in building 500 coding centres across schools in the state this year as part of the CodeLagos project Special...
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Controller Raises The Alarm Over Condition of A\Ibom Prisons
The Akwa Ibom state Controller, of prisons Mrs. Pamela Nyong (JP), has raised alarm over poor accommodation of inmates facing various cases in Uyo, Ikot Ekpene, and Eket Local Government Areas....
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Obasanjo’s Wife Petitions Police Over Son’s Wedding, Alleged Threat To Life
A new twist was yesterday introduced into the dispute between Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and one of his wives, Mrs Taiwo Obasanjo over the marriage ceremony of their son, as Mrs Obasanjo has...
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Court Recognises Legitimate Board Of FGPL
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on April 5th, 2017 has recognised the legitimate Board of First Guarantee Pension Limited (FGPL) led by Mr. Olaiya Orlando Ojo and Nze Chidi Duru and its right to...
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