The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has challenged the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) to leverage on its rich experience and the unique power of technology to enhance its professionalism, while also serving as an effective tool of national integration.   The Minister issued the challenge on Tuesday while inaugurating the new …

  The N2billion long-term facility Heritage Bank Plc and Central Bank of Nigeria gave to Triton Aqua Africa Limited (TAAL), under the Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme (CACS), has continued to boost job creation.  The Managing Director of Heritage Bank Plc, Ifie Sekibo, who disclosed this at the weekend, led a team …

The Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW) has set aside June 18-24 as a week to remember some prominent dead writers in the country. The project tagged “National Week of Remembrance for Departed Writers” is aimed to remember and recall memories, profiles and works of famous and renown dead writers …

Largely unheralded for a long time, Ponzi schemes came to the consciousness of the entire nation in 2016. With the descent of the Nigerian economy into its first full depression in over two decades, many embraced the rise of these money-spinning schemes as a way out.  At the height of …

The Nigerian Breweries Plc has announced the appointment of former Managing Director of Heineken Ethiopia, Mr. Johan Antonie Doyer as the Company’s new Managing Director/CEO, to take over from the exiting CEO. Doyer takes over from the outgoing CEO, Nigerian Breweries, Mr. Nicolaas Vervelde, having been appointed as the new …

 The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved the sale of $100 million at the Wholesale Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) auction announced on Monday, May 8, 2017. The CBN Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor, confirmed this on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, while disclosing that the sales will be …

  Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has said that the  passage, by the House of Representatives, Tuesday of a bill for the amendment of the NLNG (Fiscal Incentives, Guarantees and Assurances) Act would not be  in the national interest, but would project Nigeria as a sovereign-state promise breaker and an unsuitable destination …

From: Madu Ezenoha, Enugu  Biafran agitators, Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Biafra Independent Movement  (BIM) have declared that they will roll out the drums to celebrate the independence of Biafra. The Biafran proponents who are canvassing the breakaway of the people of South East …

 Power supply to Igando, a bustling community located in Alimosho local government area of Lagos State, South-Western Nigeria has been severely compromised, following a wave of vandalism of electrical installations belonging to Ikeja Electric plc. The criminal activities, which have currently plunged over 6,000 households and businesses located in and …

   The NollywoodWeek Film Festival (www.NollywoodWeek.com) has Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with UBA’s REDTV ahead of the 5th edition of the festival which takes place in Paris from May 11-14th, 2017. “We share a common vision,” says Bola Atta, the Director of Marketing & Corporate Communications at UBA Group. …

The Minister of Niger Delta, Mr Usani Uguru Usani, has strongly dissociated himself from media reports suggesting that he holds the current Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission ( NDDC), Mr Nsima Ekere, responsible for poor projects delivery in Akwa Ibom state. In a statement signed by him, …

AGENE GODWIN, Benin National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Rev. Dr. Felix Omobude has advised Nigerians to desist from politicizing the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari. Dr. Omobude, in a press statement endorsed by his Media Aide, Deacon Ralph Okhiria, Monday in Benin City, expressed displeasure …

The Federal Government has described as indecent, inhuman and ill-timed the statement credited to a faction of the PDP criticising the process that led to the release of the 82 Chibok Girls over the weekend. In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it …

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has commended the efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government, security operatives, and the international Red Cross on the release of 82 of the Chibok schoolgirls, that were part of the group abducted by Boko Haram in 2014. In a statement …

As part of activities celebrating Lagos at 50, the state government has unveiled a special publication named Cinema in Lagos ahead of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival holding in France from May 17 to 28. The unveiling was done on Friday at Filmhouse Cinema in Lekki and Silverbird Cinema in …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday emphasized the need for Nigerians to embrace selfless service to humanity, saying that such remained the essence of existence to positively impact others. Speaking at the opening ceremony of 33rd Synod of Diocese of Lagos, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) with the …

    Barely a week after a controversial ruling by Justice Idrissa Kolo of the Federal High Court sitting in Sokoto which authorised the Attorney General, AG, of Sokoto State to take over the prosecution of the case of Mohammed Bello, a serving Commissioner in the state and former Permanent Secretary …

Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN ), Dr. Godwin Emefiele on Friday announced that the bank has decided to supplement the foreign investment of Valentine chickens, a subsidiary of Shonga Farms Holdings Limited in Kwara State with a loan of N2billion Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme. Dr. Emefiele who …

  Nigeria is a place of numerous challenges and the home of vast human potentials. Our greatest challenge has always been how to best direct our vast potentials so that we overcome the challenges that plague us. This cardinal challenge is why the (All Progressives Congress) APC was formed and why …

The Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division  has upheld the legality  of  the Judicial Commission of Inquiry  established  by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike  to probe the sale of Valued Assets by the immediate past administration of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi in the state.  The Appeal Court in a lead judgment …

  Minister of Transportation and immediate past governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has again blasted his successor and current governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike over his (Wike’s) false claims that the over $43million found in an Ikoyi apartment by the EFCC were stolen Rivers State …

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said that the state government plans to upgrade the Sultan Abdulrahman School of Health Technology, Gwadabawa, to the status of a College.  Tambuwal made the disclosure when he paid an unscheduled inspection visit to both the school,  as well as the State College of Nursing …