• Stakeholders task firms on production figures • NNPC, legislators, operators back PIB A GRAPHIC picture of how sophisticated oil theft gangs in the Niger Delta frustrate an accurate measurement [...]
ASABA, the Delta State capital, Sunday hosted a meeting of the South-South governors and their Southeast counterparts, with the chief executives of the states deliberating on the way forward for [...]
FOR the umpteenth time, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State and the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Godswill Akpabio, has stated that he has no interest [...]
• Seeks support for early completion INSECURITY in the Niger Delta region is at the heart of problems hampering the early completion of the section two of the East-West Road, [...]
• Governor Dissociates Self Governor of Niger state, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has disassociated himself from posters and billboards (erected in some parts of the country) announcing his interest to [...]
IN 1984, the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA launched a programme called Landsat, capturing and archiving hi-resolution satellite images of the earth’s surface. Google and Time magazine recently teamed up [...]
EKITI State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi Friday said he has delivered 70 per cent of his campaign promises to the people within the last two and a half years in [...]
THE crisis tearing apart members of the Kwara State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) may soon be over with the appointment of a new Caretaker Committee to [...]
A Federal High court Lagos, Friday, discharged an Onitsha-based medical doctor, charged with illicit drug deal. The trial judge, Okechukwu Okeke also acquitted the accused of all counts of the [...]
• .IGP vows to arrest killers, panel meets Boko Haram leaders • Jonathan cancels Namibia trip, meets with service chiefs, others • Doctor shot over rejection of 22 policemen’s bodies [...]
• Cautions on expansionary spending, oil subsidies FOR the second time in one week, the Federal Government’s economic policies have received the approval of two Breton woods institutions: the World [...]
FORMER governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva who was arrested on Wednesday in Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been granted administrative bail by the commission. [...]
GOVERNOR Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has commended the emergence of the former Vice Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Prof. Isha’q Olanrewaju Oloyede and the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Azeez [...]
A NIGERIAN Air Force helicopter Thursday crashed on the runway of NAF Base in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, days after one of its jets exploded in Niger Republic . The [...]
SEVEN governors under the budding All Progressives Congress (APC) were Tuesday in Owerri, Imo State for a rally, saying that the newly formed political party is aimed at enhancing [...]
The history of The Commonwealth, an association of 54 countries, with the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II as the symbolic head, is a mixed grill of some sort. Many ordinary [...]
A PROSECUTION witness, Damon Yelma, in the on-going trial of some oil marketers at an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, over an alleged fuel subsidy infraction on Wednesday failed to substantiate [...]
AT this year’s Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) conference and exhibition, issues bordering on broadband deployment and expansion will be the subjects of discussion. Scheduled for May 30 and 31 in [...]
LAGOS Assembly Tuesday passed the bill seeking to establish state-owned oil and gas corporation known as Ibile Oil and Gas Corporation. The bill, titled: “A law to establish Ibile Oil [...]
• Group, others fault court ruling • Minister urged to appeal verdict LAST Thursday’s ruling of an Abuja High Court in the suit between the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) and [...]
ABDUCTED elder statesman, and former minister of petroleum resources during the Gowon military regime, Dr Shettima Ali-Monguno, was in the early hours of Monday released by members of the Boko Haram sect [...]
• C’Wealth scribe links Boko Haram’s crisis to ‘challenges of diversity’ • CPC decries Jonathan’s failure to visit Baga GUNMEN, again, were on the prowl in a Bayelsa community, killing [...]
• NNPC disowns agency AN intervention from the Presidency Sunday led to the lifting of the blockade of access to Bonny Channels of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG) [...]
• Presidency disagrees AN alarm has been raised by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) that the President Goodluck Jonathan led-Administration is steadily descending into despotism with a brazen assault [...]
AMID growing concern over the feasibility of the Vision 2020:20, Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, says the country will join top biggest economies [...]
TRANSPARENCY and adherence to corporate governance in business have been described as key to increased investments. This position was, at the weekend, expressed by Seplat Petroleum Development Company Limited, an [...]
Kill Council Secretary In Maiduguri IT was double tragedy for Borno State Friday and Thursday as four gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members kidnapped elder statesman, Alhaji Shettima Ali [...]
PIQUED by the violence which broke out among Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Accord Party (AP) supporters in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Thursday, Governor Abiola Ajimobi Friday [...]
THE Cross River Government Friday restated its resolve to continue to support and provide an enabling environment for journalists to operate. In a statement in Calabar to mark the 2013 [...]
ONDO State Police Command Thursday assured citizens of the state of adequate security during and after the delivery of judgment by the election petition tribunal, which is expected to deliver [...]
