The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives has ordered the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), to furnish it with details on the liabilities of 13 banks that were liquidated in 2006 in the wake of the recapitalisation by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

By Henry Umoru

Abuja -  WORRIED by the lingering crisis in the Plateau State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), elders and members of the party in the state, Thursday, urged the party National Working Committee (NWC) to revisit the issues that led to the dissolution of the elected Executive Committees if there [...]

A former Nigerian head of state, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), Thursday tasked the President Umaru Yar’Adua-led administration to implement the draft national social security policy.

The stakeholders’ meeting between the Lagos State Government and community leaders representing Ibeju-Lekki and Epe council areas over the proposed site of an international airport in the area ended inconclusively as stakeholders clamoured for royalty rather than being paid compensation.

Some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have called for total support to the anti-graft bodies and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to achieve total reform in the Nigerian banking sector.

An international conference on the Niger Delta crisis is to hold in Johannesburg, South Africa, in November.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has assured Lagos residents that the newly completed drivers institutes situated across five divisions in the state will create jobs for about 1,000 people.