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Nollywood actors and actresses on Tuesday visited President Goodluck Jonathan to complain about the continued stay of Managing Director of the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC), Mr. Afolabi Adesanya and the leadership of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) over a lingering problem that between them. The actors and actresses, under the aegis of […]

Angry students of the Lagos State University on Tuesday rained expletives on the leadership of the Lagos State House of Assembly as well as other lawmakers of the House, during their protest against hike in the institution’s fees. The students, who marched across some parts of Lagos before settling at the House, first refused to listen to […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday appointed Brigadier-General Jones Oladehinde Arogbofa as his new Chief Of Staff. According to Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the appointment takes immediate effect. A retired officer of the Signals Corps of the Nigerian Army, Brig-Gen. Arogbofa, who was born on 10th November 1952, takes the […]

Politics, especially in a democracy, should characteristically be some sort of a leveller; creating the equality we so desire amongst ourselves. Of course, there is hierarchy in politics, but at the same time there are some democratic tenets that give undue powers to some undeserving elements, simply because they have been ‘elected’ into office. Take […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the engagement of prominent international political consultants, AKPD Message and Media to boost its electoral chances in the upcoming elections. In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the Chicago, U.S.-based firm is best known for its lead […]

FBN Holdings Plc. is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, FBN Life Assurance Limited (“FBN Life” or “the Company”),has acquired  4,630,595,326 ordinary shares of 50kobo each representing 71.2% of the total issued ordinary share capital of Oasis Insurance Plc (“Oasis”). The acquisition was effected through the execution of a share sale and purchase agreement with […]Read More

…Challenges Anyone with Proof to Tender It The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has dismissed allegations that its staff collect a N25 per litre mobilization fee from marketers before allocating kerosene to them as lies fabricated by some persons to tarnish the image of the Corporation. This was contained in a statement […]

Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson has charged the Ministry of Sports Development to commence the process of admitting the first batch of students in readiness for the take-off of the State Sports Academy at Asoama in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area. He also directed the ministry to source experts that would train the students in […]

Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima has lamented that members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect are better armed and motivated by their sponsors than Nigerian security men. Speaking with State House Correspondents at the end of a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on the latest set of Boko Haram attacks on the north-eastern zone […]

Vice Chancellors of government-owned universities in the country have been presented with letters of allocation for the N200bn intervention fund of the Federal Government. During the presentation at a meeting with vice chancellors of the universities in Abuja, Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike advised the institutions to make maximum use of the funds […]

As soon as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released the timetable for the 2015 elections, political pundits and ordinary Nigerians alike began querying the chances of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan to be re-elected for a second four-year term. Even with the much talked-about National Transformation Agenda of the President, some political observers openly asked […]

United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ms Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Monday implored the Nigerian Government to establish an electoral offences tribunal ahead of the 2015 general elections. Speaking in Abuja during the opening of the Nigeria-U.S. Bi-National Commission (BNC) working group’s meeting on good governance, transparency and integrity, Thomas-Greenfield explained that the tribunal […]