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Cambridge College, located in Ikeja area of Lagos state has sued the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency over an unpaid N17m school fees debt. It was gathered that the sum is the balance of tuition meant for 16 indigent students of the state who had their A level/Foundational Class at the college last year. According […]

As result of the recent restructuring at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), management on Thursday announced new appointments, redeployments and secondments into key positions.  The appointments are as follows: Appointed GEDs/COOs   Upstream – Bello Rabiu   Downstream – Henry Ikem–Obih   Refineries – Anibor Kragha   Gas and Power – Saidu Mohammed   Ventures […]

“May we never walk when the road waits, famished” – Wole Soyinka, The Road Two major road accidents in the last week brought to the fore again the dangers that lie in wait on Nigerian roads.  The Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, James Ocholi, SAN, his wife and son lost their lives in […]

Former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh has been granted bail in the sum of two billion Naira and two sureties. In a ruling at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, Justice Okon Abang held that the two sureties must provide a bail bond of one billion Naira each and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr. Warisenibo Dakuku Adolphus Peterside as the Director General/CEO of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Dr. Peterside replaces Mr. Haruna Baba Jauro who until Thursday March 10, 2016 superintended the Agency in acting capacity. Dr. Peterside holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) degree in Management Sciences (Organisational Behaviour) […]

Ms Emily Enright, the Citizen Service Officer, U.S. Embassy, Abuja has urged the media to mobilise Nigerians with dual citizenship on their right to vote in the November U.S. Presidential election. Enright made the call Thursday in Yola in an interactive session with newsmen in Yola. Enright said that such Nigerians who must be 18 […]

The nationwide strike embarked upon by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has been suspended.  The action was taken after the intervention of the Presidency and the clarification made by the Petroleum Ministry, PENGASSAN President, Comrade Johnson Francis said on […]

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu has been invited to appear before Senate over the unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The senate said the minister was invited to appear before the Senate Joint committees on Petroleum Resources (Upstream, Downstream and Gas), to explain the Federal Government’s action. According to […]

Those who either sentenced themselves or were sentenced to inconsolable heedless wailing by the outcome of last year’s general election can never stop being funny. Often when you hear or read their loud, frenzied and syndicated cacophony of complaint and twisting of everything from President Buhari and his government lately to suit their wailing enterprise, […]

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has clarified that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has not been unbundled. He made the clarification while addressing journalists after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting held on Wednesday in Abuja. Kachikwu noted that the corporation was only undergoing reorganisation. He explained that the corporation […]

The House of Representatives on Wednesday nullified the impeachment of the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Hon. Momoh Lawal, by five lawmakers and also took over the running of the State House of Assembly until the crisis was resolved. The decision was taken at plenary where the federal lawmakers slammed the five […]

Seriously angered by the unbundling, Tuesday evening, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) its workers, under the umbrella of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Wednesday shut down operations across the country. As a result most filling stations were shut down. […]