Reports

The Federal House of Representatives has mandated some of its committees to investigate the alleged exclusion of Imo, Abia and Akwa Ibom States from the Shell Live Wire Nigeria Programme. Shell Live Wire programme is a corporate social responsibility programme being carried out yearly in the Niger Delta region by the Shell Petroleum Development Company […]

Former member of the Federal House of Representatives, Otunba Dino Melaye has praised the sack of Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, describing it as vindication of his previous campaigns against the two.  Melaye, who was speaking for his civil rights group, the Anti-Corruption Network (ACN), also described […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to address age-old constraints that have persistently limited manufacturing, particularly by building industrial infrastructure, prioritizing power for industrial use, reducing borrowing costs and mobilizing funding for the real sector.   Speaking at the formal launch of the Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP) — which he described as government’s flagship programme to […]

Henry Okah, leader of the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) who is serving a 24-year prison sentence in South Africa for terrorism charges, attempted to escape from prison last month, prison officials have said. According to spokesman for South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services, Manelisi Wolela, “Okah is one of the five […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has extended its nationwide membership registration by two days to accommodate the millions of Nigerians who have turned out to register but could not yet do so. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the registration will now end […]

As widely expected, erstwhile Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday actualised his much-publicised defection to the All progressives Congress (APC) by registering his membership in Jada, Adamawa State. On hand to conduct the membership registration were the Ganye Zonal and Interim Chairman of APC in Adamawa State. The former vice president arrived at the […]

A sum of N108m has been dedicated to 12 pilot states for the grassroots micro-credit scheme of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), tThe Federal Government said on Tuesday. According to Senior Special Assistant to the President on Poverty Eradication and National Co-ordinator of NAPEP, Mallam Mukhtar Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the project signals the dawn […]

Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Gambo Sallau has resigned from the coveted position, saying he is unwilling to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) with the majority of his colleagues. The former speaker took the decision following the defection of 27 members of the House yesterday. In order to avoid impeachment since […]

The unity among members of the Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was reaffirmed yesterday in Abeokuta as party faithful led by Governor of the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and National Assembly members from the state attended the stakeholders’ meeting on the party registration exercise due to commence tomorrow. The event gave the […]

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar believes that his new party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) is committed to building a strong and united party. Speaking in Sokoto State during a courtesy call on Governor of the state, Aliyu Wamakko, Atiku said everyone in the party has laid aside his individual ambition in order to […]

A deputy title editor with the Newswatch newspapers, Toyin Obadina, who was shot by armed robbers at the wee hours of Saturday, has died. Obadina died early on Sunday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos State, following serious gunshot injuries he suffered from the attack that occurred while he was on his way home from work […]

Small and Medium Enterprises in Edo State cannot access the N220bn intervention fund floated by the Edo State Government, Governor of Central Bank, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has revealed. Speaking at the Government House in Benin on Friday during a condolence visit to the Edo State government over the death of wife of Oba of Benin, […]