Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Emmanuel Kachikwu has called for quick deregulation of the nation’s oil and gas industry. Kachikwu stated this at the 2015 National Association of Energy Correspondents conference, held in Lagos. Kachikwu who was represented by Bolanle Ashafa, Acting Managing Director of Nigeria Engineering […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed William Babatunde Fowler as the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The appointment was contained in a statement issued and signed by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President, Media and Publicity. According to Adesina, Buhari also appointed Aliyu Yahaya Gusau as […]
The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has refuted claims by his successor Nyesom Wike that he left an empty treasury. Governor Wike had consistently maintained that he met a completely empty treasury when he took over as governor. Only on Wednesday, while trying to justify why he took a […]
*APC Foundation Members Warn Against Choice of Alaibe There are indications that the National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and its national chairman, Chief John Oyegun are divided over the choice of the party’s candidate for the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa […]
Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said some of the past polices and planning including budgeting of government did not reflect the needs and the conditions of the majority of the people in Nigeria who have become disempowered in the process. Speaking today at a courtesy visit by members of the Alumni Association of […]
Former member of the House of Representatives from Bayelsa State, Hon. Warman Ogoriba, has been castigated as being “blinded by political indulgence” to warrant his comments that the incumbent government in the state have nothing to show for the money so far received from the Federation Accounts. The former lawmaker who recently defected from the […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Abuja assured indigenous companies operating in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector of the full support and protection of his administration. At a meeting with members of the Independent Petroleum Producers Association in the Presidential Villa, President Buhari commended their determination to increase the participation of Nigerians […]
By Ayo Balogun – The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode Wednesday approved the termination of the concession granted by the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) to Afriland Properties for redevelopment of the popular Falomo Shopping Centre, Ikoyi. Ambode in a statement issued by his Press Secretary, Habib Aruna indicated that the decision […]
Dr. Dakuku Peterside, All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate in the April election in Rivers State has commended the new management team of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC headed by Dr. Ibe Kachikwu for promising a monthly publication of the corporation’s account. Peterside who was former Chairman, Federal House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The PDP caucus of the House of Representatives has faulted the Buhari administration’s on-going probe of corrupt government functionaries and officials in the immediate past administration. Briefing newsmen Wednesday in Abuja, chairman of the caucus’ Media Committee Rep Rima Shawulu (PDP Taraba) said the way the anti-corruption crusade is being driven, […]
By Niyi Adeyi – The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has described as untrue, “utterly scurrilous and very misleading”, the report that over 150 people from Kukuwa-Gari village were shot dead by Boko Haram gunmen in Yobe State, while many others fleeing from the gunmen drowned in Yobe River in the mid-afternoon yesterday. The Military Wednesday […]
*Governor Commends Initiative In continuation of its efforts aimed at creating wider access to health care for less privileged Nigerians, Dangote Foundation at the weekend took free health care services to the door steps of the vulnerable and poor ones in Katsina state. Thousands of ailing people, including sickly elderly and malnourished children alike trooped […]
There is uncertainty over the health condition of ace comedian, Moses Olaiya, popularly known as Baba Sala, as he was rushed to the University College Hospital, Ibadan, late Monday for age-related ailment. Adejumo’s son, Emmanuel, on Tuesday told our correspondent that his father was taken to the hospital after initial treatment in an Ilesa hospital […]
*Insist Erring Staffers Must Be Sanctioned By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – Against the backdrop of the lingering crisis in the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu, members of the affiliate Joint Health Sector Union, (JOHESU) of the Hospital, have defended the Hospital’s management, threatening they will resist any attempt by anybody to drag the institution to the […]
By Uche Igwe – Many people are worried that the endless negative news from and about our parliament could submerge her potential contributions in democracy in Nigeria. For such an institution that is so critical to our democratic survival that ought not to be the case. Parliaments are important institutions that cut across both vertical and horizontal […]
* Measures To Check Trend Underway By Our Reporter With Agency Report – The illegal migration from Africa to Europe rages, as the number of migrants who were languishing at the borders as at July, jerked up and estimated at over 100,000. The situation according to the EU officials is most likely to be compounded as […]
Dikko Abdullahi, comptroller general, bows out of Nigerian Customs Service in style as he performs his last official function by inaugurating a three-storey state-of-the-art hospital facility. It is one of the lasting legacies he left behind in Customs where he worked for 27 years Dikko Abdullahi bowed out of service after six years in the […]
*As TAN Hijacks Bayelsa APC, To scheme out Slyva’s faction for Governorship Ticket Facts are beginning to emerge over the recent defection of the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), Mr. Ndutimi Alaibe, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Col. Sam Inokoba, (rtd) and others to the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Findings by a […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the dissolution of the Executive Management Team of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and appointed Ahmed Lawan Kuru – Managing Director of the corporation. A statement from the Special Adviser, Femi Adesina said : “President Buhari has also approved the re constitution of the […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase, has come under serious pressure to prosecute two stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State, Mr. Paul Anikwe and Mrs. Ify Ozoani for alleged forgery of PDP appointment letters and depose to false affidavit, claiming they were appointed the returning […]
