Following the conclusion of the first phase of the National Programme for Food Security (NPFS) launched in November, 2001, the Federal Government yesterday floated the expanded phase of the programme estimated to cost...
Nigerians should expect functional Kaduna and Warri refineries by the end of December this year, the acting Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Alhaji Lawal Yar'Adua, has...
Nigeria has ratified the international convention on access to cheap funds for aircraft acquisition by local airlines. The instrument was signed in Dublin, Ireland, last week by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority...
The immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja, and some of his aides on Monday reported at the Special Fraud Unit of the Force Headquarters Annex, Alagbon, Lagos. Ladoja and others were invited by the...
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja will today determine whether former President Olusegun Obasanjo could be questioned over his handling of the April 21 presidential election. This came just as the...
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, on Monday met with the chief security officers of all the embassies in the country. The meeting came barely four days after the United States warned that Nigeria...
The panel investigating the N628m contract scandal in the House of Representatives has directed that the ongoing renovation of the residences of the Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Etteh, and her deputy, Alhaji Babangida...
Prof. Pat Utomi, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) party hereby calls on the federal government to as a matter of urgency activate a dramatic increase in funding allocations to state...
Over the last few weeks the former democratic dictator of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo Matthew Okikiola Aremu aka Baba Sege has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Interestingly I read a wonderful piece in...
We are eight women leaders representing eight different countries. Five of us are African. We have just returned from the camps of eastern Chad, where we have been meeting the women victims of the Darfur conflict. We...
Minister of Finance, Shamsuddeen Usman has said that capital allocation in the 2008 budget might be slashed by 25 per cent. Usman told the Joint House of Representatives Committees on Appropriation and Finance that the...
The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee probing the death of a Nigerian, Mr. Osamuyi Akpitanhi, has summoned the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, to appear before it on Tuesday on his...