ANTHONY OMOH Medview Airline has commenced direct flight operations from Lagos to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia via Kano with plans to start flight operations from Abuja to Kano and from Lagos to Kano from Monday, January 4, 2016 as part of plans to solidify Saudi Arabia operations. The airline today commenced …

Federal Government will create no fewer than one million direct jobs in 2016, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said A statement issued by Laolu Akande, his Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media and Publicity, quoted Osinbajo as saying that another one million poor Nigerians would benefit from the …

Governor, State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said Nigeria requires divine intervention for it to survive the financial crisis caused by the slump in crude oil prices. Aregbesola said this in Osogbo on Wednesday evening at an interactive session with journalists in the state. The governor called on Nigerian …

A Court of Appeal in Umuahia, Abia Sstate, has nullified the earlier ruling of the state Election Petitions Tribunal and ordered the immediate swearing-in of the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr Alex Otti, as governor of the state. The Abia State Elections Petitions trfibunal in Umuahia, …

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has distanced itself from corrupt practices while it was the country’s ruling party for 16 years, just as it further gave its backing to the current President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war, which it said is part of moves to place Nigeria among one of the tops …

ANTHONY OMOH Normally, I would write a longish prose on all the good, bad and the ugly of 2015 in the Nigerian aviation sub-sector explaining who said what, when and where they said it, why they said it and how it was said. Today, I will not bore you with …

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has told telecommunications operator MTN to stick to the December 31 deadline to pay a record $3.9bn n) fine, even after Africa’s largest phone company prepares to try and overturn the penalty in court. “The deadline remains,” Tony Ojobo, a spokesperson for NCC, said, Wednesday. …

Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged Nigerians at home and abroad to reflect on and dedicate themselves to unity, equity, security and development as they welcome the new year of 2016. In a statement personally signed by him, the Turaki Adamawa said, “I …

Following their amazing trip to Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) courtesy of the Airtel Red Hot Promo Season 3, winners of the all-expense trip for four to Dubai have returned to Nigeria. They were welcomed back to Nigeria on Wednesday 30th 2015. Excited to have emerged winners in the Airtel …

The recent declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari that the country has “technically won the war” against Boko Haram reminds one of George W Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech on May 1 2003. The United States had invaded Iraq on March 20 2013, with a coalition that included American, Australian, Polish and …

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki on Thursday called on Nigerians to join hands with the present administration to make the country great again, by supporting its policies and programmes aimed at restoring full security across the country and revamping the economy. Saraki in a New Year message to Nigerians …

Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa insists positive results against Egypt in Nigeria’s next African Cup of Nations assignments are vital if the country is to return to the top of African football. Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea following a shocking qualification …

Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has said that the National Assembly is not aware of the fuel subsidy removal and the hike in electricity tariff, noting that the Federal Government is yet to communicate its decision to the Assembly. Giving a report of activities of …

Trading on the Lagos floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed on a high, Wednesday, with the twin indicators-the All Share Index and Market Capitalisation-up significantly, the second highest since April. The market capitalisation gained N351.5 billion to close at N9.6 trillion just as the All Share Index (ASI) …

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has condemned the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), describing it as anti-labour. Besides, the workers vowed to resist the plan by the Federal Government to retrench workers, especially employees of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as a result …

Counsel to detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Ra­dio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Vincent Obetta has refuted reports that his client tendered an apology to President Muhammadu Buhari. Obetta, Wednesday, claimed instead that the purported apology was proof that government was trying to use …

Nigeria has opened talks with China for the financing and construction of two new communication satellites at a cost of $701m. The new satellites, to be known as NigComSat-2 and NigComSat-3, are to serve as backup to the country’s existing communications satellite, NigComSat-1R, which was put in the orbit in …

Adamawa State government has budgeted N120.1 billion for the 2016 fiscal year. The budget which was presented by the state governor, Mohammed Umaru Jibrilla Bindow, before the state lawmakers yesterday, was christened ‘Budget of Hope.’ A breakdown of the budget expenditure showed a recurrent component of N60,056234, 030 billion and …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government would come to Nigerians with a report on how far it has gone on the war against corruption by the end of the first quarter of 2016, insisting that he did not have any corrupt persons in his cabinet. In his maiden …

The convoy of the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday apprehended two Airforce cadets in Mile 12 area of the State while dehumanizing an artisan, Dahiru Lawal for allegedly breaking the windscreen of a Chrysler Stratus car with registration number KRD 267 DV. The cadets – Peters O. …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the ‘new’ pump prices of petrol as announced Tuesday by the Federal Government as a continuation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government by deception. The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh on Wednesday said beside its …

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Wednesday presented a budget estimate of N174.35 billion Naira for the 2016 fiscal year with education getting the biggest sectoral allocation of 29 percent. Presenting the report before the state House of Assembly, Tambuwal revealed that the sum of N123.8 billion Naira has been …

BY ABDULLAH ISAH, MAIDUGURI Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state has presented N155 billion to the state House of Assembly as 2016 appropriation bill for the consideration of the House. Governor Shettima while presenting the budget to the House said it was tagged “Budget of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement,” stressing …

In the early 70s, precisely 1973, when children of my age were going to secondary school, I gained admission to a Mission school known as N.K.S.T. Secondary School in Adikpo in the then Benue Plateau State. There, we met Mr.Vanger who was the principal. About a year and a half …