Oak Homes Boosts Affordable Housing Delivery
To address the issue of housing deficit in the country, Oak Homes Limited has launched a new housing model. Speaking with newsmen in Lagos, Mr. Olukayode Olusanya, Chief Executive Officer, Oak Homes...
View ArticleCPC, Communications Ministry Collaborate To End Telecoms Abuses
The minister of communications technology, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, at the weekend said his ministry and the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) need to collaborate to save Nigerians from increasing...
View ArticleBackward Integration: Sugar Refineries Struggle For Recovery
Sugar manufacturers in the country are still struggling with their backward integration programmes amidst likelihood that the massive drop in the volume of output three years ago may sustain a recovery...
View ArticleAfrican Sovereign Green Bond Will Facilitate Nigeria’s Economic Rebirth –...
Ahead of plans to inaugurate the first African Sovereign Green Bond (ASGB) which is expected to address climate change and sustainable environment, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr...
View ArticleAbuja Airport Closure: Ethiopian Airlines To Fly Kaduna Route
The Ethiopian Airlines has said that it would fly Kaduna route with daily frequency with its Dream Liner aircraft during the six weeks closure period of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja....
View ArticleWarri Refinery Shut Down Due to Technical Fault
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday stated that it had shut down the Warri refinery, due to some technical issues surrounding its operation. Chief operating officer,...
View ArticleOil Price Climbs As OPEC Members Stick To Production Cut
Oil price edged higher on Wednesday as May Brent crude futures LCOc1 gained 19 cents to $56.70 a barrel at mid-day, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures for April delivery CLc1 rose 9 cents...
View ArticleMultiple Taxation Bane of Foreign, Local Investment In Mining
The Nigerian mining sector has largely been seen as a non- performing despite efforts to transform it. In an attempt to unravel impediments to the development of the sector, a number of issues have...
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Ambode, Dalung Seek Urgent Handover Of National Stadium To Lagos
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode and Minister of Youth and Sports Mr. Solomon Dalung yesterday called for an urgent handover of the National Stadium abandoned by the Federal Government in...
View ArticleWike To FG: You Have Abdicated Your Responsibility In Rivers
Rivers State governor, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, has accused the Federal Government of abdicating its responsibility of projects execution in the state because the state does not matter in its...
View ArticleXenophobic Attack: FG Urged To Shut Down S/African Firms In Nigeria
Three militant groups in the Niger Delta region, the Niger Delta Watchdogs (NDW), the Niger Delta Volunteers (NDV), and the Niger Delta Strike Force (NDSF), have called on the Federal Government to...
View ArticleFG To Start Payment Of N5,000 Monthly Stipends In Katsina, March
Beneficiaries in Katsina State will join those receiving federal government’s N5000 monthly stipends under its conditional cash transfer programme from March, 2017, the special adviser to the state...
View Article5,000 Nigerians Forced Into Prostitution In Mali – Report
Report from the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has revealed that there are currently 5,000 Nigerians in different parts of Mali forced into prostitution by...
View ArticleLent In Christendom
The world’s Christendom commenced, yesterday, Ash Wednesday, a 40 day period of praying, fasting, alms-giving and self-denial that precedes Easter, excludes all Sundays within the period, and ends on...
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Sale Of $1.6bn Malabu Oil Block Followed Due Process – ENI
The board of directors of Eni (Nigeria Agip Exploration Limited) yesterday stated that all transactions relating to the 2011 $1,616,690,656.78 Malabu oil block between Shell Oil Exploration Limited and...
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APC Govs, NWC In Crucial Meeting Over Convention
The 24 governors elected on the platform of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) will today hold a crucial meeting with the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to address some matters...
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Army Arrests 7, 898, Kills 48 Terrorists In February
The Nigerian Army has said that it arrested 7, 898 Boko Haram terrorists and killed about 48 between 2nd February and March 1st 2017 in its clearance operation in Borno and Northeast. The Army also...
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Nigeria’ll Be Finished If Judiciary Is Politicised, Says CJN Onnoghen
The Chief Justice of Nigeria-designate, Justice Walter Onnoghen, cautioned yesterday that Nigeria as a country would be finished anytime the judiciary allows itself to be politicised. He, however,...
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Catholics Mark Ash Wednesday, Begin Lent
The officiating priest, Rev. Fr. Peter Ulam, Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles Catholic Parish, Central Business District, has admonished Christians to imbibe the virtue of humility and repentance,...
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FEC Approves N701bn Power Purchase Guarantee For GenCos
The federal government yesterday approved the sum of N701 billion as Power Assurance Guarantee for the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET). The facility, which is to be made available by the...
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