The wife of the President, Hajia Aisha Buhari, has unveiled a new vessel of the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas company billed to join in the fleet of the organization. While performing the “naming ceremony” in Seoul South Korea on Thursday, Buhari said the acquisition of the new vessel, named LNG …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday presented three new witnesses against a former Director- General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi. Akpobolokemi, alongside five others, are standing trial before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos in a …

President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday in Mecca that the Federal Government will welcome support from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for its ongoing efforts to rehabilitate parts of the country affected by the Boko Haram insurgency. According to statements by Garba Shehu, SSA to the President on Media & …

Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State should be held responsible for the crisis that engulfed Yeghe community in Gokana Local Government Area that led to hoodlums burning down his Senatorial Liaison Office in Bori, Khana …

The Federal Ministry of Information and Culture will hold a National Summit on Culture and Tourism next month in an effort to make the Culture and Tourism Sector a major revenue earner for the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Ahaji Lai Mohammed, announced the plan to host the …

CHINEDU WOSU YENAGOA The Nigerian Navy has assured Bayelsans and others doing legitimate businesses along the waterways of its readiness to tackle acts of piracy and kidnapping in the creeks and protect villagers from incessant harassment by sea pirates. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas gave the …

Several explosives seized from Boko Haram militants blew up at a police station in Yola, Adamawa State,Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, officials said. The devices stored in a police station went off when an officer tried moving them, said Ahmed Sajo, Adamawa state information commissioner …

Despite more than 20,000 people in West Africa gaining identity documents in the past year as part of a drive to eradicate statelessness, around one million in the region still have no nationality, the United Nations said, Thursday. Stateless people, sometimes referred to as legal ghosts, are not accepted as …

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the conduct of Congresses for the Edo State Chapter of the party. This follows the announcement of the timetable for the conduct of governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), …

AGENE GODWIN, Benin While hundreds of angry hawkers of sachet water (popularly called ‘pure water’), Thursday, took to the streets of Benin City, the Edo state capital, to protest the sudden hike in the price of the product by the distributors in the state, those in Asaba market, in Delta …

For refusing to appear before it when invited, the Senate, Thursday, directed its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to comply with relevant sections of the Constitution that empowered it to issue a warrant of arrest on immediate past Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde. …

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the appointment of Hon. Inuwa Bwala as the Special Assistant (Media) to the National Chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff. A statement by Prof. Adewale Oladipo, National Secretary of the PDP said Hon. Shettima Shehu has also been …

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Thursday, said it has placed a ban on the importation of beans in the country. Acting Director General of the Agency, Mrs. Yetunde Oni, said the ban is not for the ones produced in the country, but ‎on the ones …

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released dates for the conduct of governorship elections in both Edo and Ondo States. According to the commission’s daily bulletin issued, Thursday in Abuja and confirmed by INEC’s Deputy Director in charge of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr. Nick Dazang, while governorship election would …

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has decried the outbreak of lead poisoning in Rafin Local Government area of Niger State due to small scale or artisanal mining of gold in the area. Saraki who stated this when the representatives of Doctors Without Borders led by Dr. Simba Tirima paid …

Justice E.O Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday February 25, 2016 reserved ruling on a “no case submission” brought by the embattled spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh on the money laundering charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes …

The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi and Dangote Industries Limited have agreed on the roadmap for avoiding road traffic crashes involving the company’s vehicles, with the call on the company to immediately commence removal of all its broken down vehicles on the highways across …

Everyone appears to have followed the from-grass-to-grace, rags-to-riches metamorphosis of mother-of-two bread-hawker, Olajumoke Orishaguna, who has been characterised as the Cinderella of our time; the conversion of fiction to non-fiction before our very eyes. What used to be tale by the moonlight had, to quote the scriptures, taken on blood …

Organizers of the Nigeria’s first and premier Jazz festival and the largest Jazz festival in sub-Saharan West Africa – the Lagos International Jazz Festival (LIJF) have unveiled plans for this year’s event. The festival themed; ‘Jazz in the Megacity’ which holds from April 29 to May 1, coincides with the …

Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh is not likely to attend the Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) which holds Friday in Abuja. The coach had told the committee that he will be in England this weekend to meet up with some of the country’s top stars in the …

Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, Wednesday, declared that the war against the Boko Haram terrorists in the North-east has now entered into a mop up phase, adding that the target of defeating Boko Haram had been achieved ‘except some few setbacks which the military was determined to …

Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, Wednesday, disclosed that over N30 million had been paid to about 530 investors of failed companies in the capital market under the National Investor Protection Fund (NIPF) scheme. The NIPF was launched by commission last year following growing complaints by …

The Senate, Wednesday, slashed the N7.6 billion accrued charges to Systemspecs, commercial banks and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from transfers to treasury single account (TSA) by government agencies to a meagre sum of N656.504 million. It also ordered the CBN to terminate the one per cent charge for any …

A student of the Department of Psychology in the University of Lagos, Mr. Ayodele Daniel Dada, has set a record at the institution by becoming its first student of the university to graduate with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 at its 2014/2015 convocation ceremony slated to start …