NEDU MARK, Yenagoa The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and running mate to Chief Timipre Sylva in the December 5, 2015 governorship election, Elder Wilberforce Igiri has blamed the insensitivity of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) policies and programmes for youths as cause of his aged mother’s abduction at Foropa. …

Telecommunications company in Nigeria, MTN has written to the Presidency through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) pleading for “leniency” and also requesting a review of a $5.2 billion fine imposed on the network provider for failing to cut off unregistered SIM card users, a regulatory source said on Tuesday. MTN …

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., and Century Health and Hospitalities Limited have announced an agreement to open two new hotels in Abuja, under the Starwood’s Westin and Four Points by Sheraton brands. Both hotels will add more than 600 rooms and 344 branded residences in the region making it …

Kolawole Olaniyan Imagine that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are …

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has dismissed reports of a planned hike in electricity tariffs in the country starting from this month, stating that such a decision has yet to be reached. Describing reports on the plan as media speculation, Chairman of NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, said the commission …

The Abia State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Umuahia, Tuesday, dismissed the petition of defeated All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate, Dr Alex Otti as it upheld that Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the April 11, 2015 governorship election in the state. Otti …

A Federal High Court in Abuja, Tuesday, ordered release of the International passport of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col.  Sambo Dasuki‎ (rtd), to enable him travel to London, the United Kingdom, for three weeks on health grounds. Dasuki is facing an amended five-count charge including illegal possession of …

The second edition of Lafarge National Literacy Competition has reached its final stage as the grand finale holds in Lagos next week, after the successful completion of the regional contests in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria. With dignitaries from government and the Nigerian education sector expected to be in …

The Nigeria Police has alerted of plans by workers in Kogi State, presently on an industrial action to block highways and other roads in the state in the course of the their protest march. In a statement made available to Global Patriot Newspapers, Tuesday, and signed by ACP Olabisi Kolawole, …

The widely-acclaimed book, Half of a Yellow Sun, by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named the Bailey’s ‘Best of the Best’, chosen from the past decade’s winners of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Adichie’s 2007 prize-winning novel, set in 1960s Nigeria during the Biafran War, was judged …

Facility managers in the country have been urged to canvass for a legislation that would compel public and private institutions as well as individuals to embrace maintenance culture. Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, Managing Partner SIAO Managing Consulting, who was chairman of the 2015 Facility Management Award Dinner organised in Lagos by …

Tayo Ogunbiyi Like every cosmopolitan city across the world, Lagos also experiences gridlock. The gridlock, popularly referred to as ‘go slow’, in local parlance, has been a recurring headache to successive governments in the State. In one of his ever green songs, ‘Confusion Break Bone’, late maverick musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, …

Secretary-General, Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Chief Seinde Arogbofa, Monday, called for calm following the resignation of the group’s leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. The Afenifere leader resigned, Sunday, over an alleged polarisation of the group and its deviation from its set vision and goals. Fasoranti became the leader of Afenifere …

NEDU MARK, YENAGOA Tension and fear has engulfed the camp of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and family of its deputy governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Wilberforce Igiri, following the sad news of the death of his kidnapped aged mother, Madam Ebifeghe Dikoro, in the kidnappers’ den. Madam Dikoro, who …

NEDU MARK YENAGOA Barely a month to the governorship election in Bayelsa state, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state has said told Bayelsans that supporting the All Progressives Congress, APC and Timipre Sylva would be suicidal and catastrophic for the state. The party also adviced youths to shun …

The Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd) has called for greater collaboration with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), saying the two agencies are strategic to the success of the campaign for ridding the nation of smuggled motor vehicles. Col Ali stated this while …

The development of indigenous manpower for the oil and gas industry received a boost last Friday as 40 engineering and geosciences graduates passed out from a one-year internship programme organised by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) operated Joint Venture and Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), a …

The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd), has approved the appointment of six acting Deputy Comptrollers-General of Customs in the ongoing re organisation of the Service. The six Officers are moving from the rank of Assistant Comptrollers-General, to occupy the positions of Deputy Comptrollers-General in acting capacity. …

A witness in the ongoing trial of a former governor of Gombe State and serving senator, Danjuma Goje, Shehu Mohammed Atiku has told a Federal High Court, Gombe that the ex-governor forged the Resolution of the House and collected N5bn (five billion naira) facility from Access Bank. “My Lord, the …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, Monday, inaugurated the newly appointed Chairmen, Executive Secretaries and Members of some Boards and Commissions of State Agencies with a charge on them to see their appointment as a call to service and give extra-ordinary efforts to move Lagos forward. Governor Ambode, who recalled …

The trial of Ibrahim Ahmed Mazangari, Muhammed Sani Sulaiman, Hajia Fatima Mazangari and Saleh Yerima Tsojon, who allegedly ran a syndicate that defrauded the Federal Government to the tune of N1.2 billion in a pension scam, continued on Monday, November 2, 2015 with the prosecution witness giving insight into how …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, November 2, 2015 arraigned the trio of Yakubu Joseph Dangabar (alias Hamisu Yakubu), Usman Abdulhakim and Baba Yahaya before  Justice O.A. Musa  of the FCT High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja, on a six-count charge bordering on obtaining property by false …

Abdullahi Isah, Maiduguri The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winners of Saturday’s Borno Central Senatorial bye election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). While announcing the results, the returning officer for the election, Professor Muhammmed Fannami, declared APC’s candidate, Baba Kaka Bashir Garbai, winner having scored the …

The Presidency has defended comments credited to President Muhammdu Buhari while in India for the India-Africa Forum, which the Peoples Democratic Party had planked its argument on that the President was ‘demarketing Nigeria,’ insisting the opposition was out to ‘distract’ the President. A statement by Fermi Adesina, Special Adviser to …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the timeline for Nigerian bank customers in the Diaspora to enrol for their Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) to January 31, 2016. A statement made, Monday, in Abuja by the Bank’s Director, Corporate Communications, Alhaji Ibrahim Mu’azu, explained that the extension was to …