Fibre without Borders

Top executives of the Nigerian oil and gas industry have pledged their readiness to support the effective take off of the International Cancer Center (ICCA), Abuja, a non-governmental initiative of the First Lady, Hajia Turai Yar’Adua.

The immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Bola Tinubu, yesterday broke his silence on the rumour making the rounds that there is bickering between him and his successor, Governor Babatunde Fashola over disagreement on matter of principles.

By Tony Edike Enugu-  Governors  of South East and South South zones, yesterday raised alarm over the increase in violent crime in their  respective states, saying the development was slowing down economic activities in the zones. The Governors spoke in Enugu during a two day security summit organised by the 82 Division of Nigeria Army, […]

A Sapele-based cleric, Pastor Sunday Aigbe says only the application of truth could resolve the Niger Delta quagmire and insisted that no nation could develop in an atmosphere of oppression characterized by violence.

“For many years, very different approaches have been adopted in reforming the civil service but the after-effect appears to be that we are still to get it right.

Chairman of Yala local government area, Barrister Fidel Egoro, has averted communal crises in the area by resolving three land disputes among communities

SPECIAL Adviser to Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Public Affairs and Strategy, Mr. Eric Osagie, yesterday resigned his appointment, citing personal reasons and professional grounds as the grounds for his resignation.

A call has gone to politicians and elites in the Niger/ Delta states not to make the amnesty granted by the federal government to militants in the area part of their political machineries.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omishere, has assured the Cross River State government that funds have been made available for the implementation of many projects in the state.

Equity trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) was driven by massive activity in the shares of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, accounting for 65.09 per cent of the market turnover.

By Anayo Okoli Aba—SOME residents of of Aba, Abia state, especially in the Ogbor Hill area, have petitioned the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) zonal office in Aba, over what they called “unwarranted arrests, extortion, intimidation, illegal detention and arbitrary levies they are subjected to by workers of the agency, with nothing to show […]

European Commission (EC) has concluded arrangements to spend a total of 45.5 million (about N9.2 billion) on new micro projects programme in nine states of the Niger Delta region (MPP9), just as the team and that of the Federal government will visit Rivers State 14 August 2009 to discuss the implementation of the programme.

THEY went and could not help but marvel at what they saw; so impressed were they that they felt it would not be a bad idea to replicate same at home . The team of Lagos State Government officials which travelled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirate (UAE) and Singapore have since returned to the country after their two-week sojourn and now seem to be in a hurry to bring their experience to bear in transforming Lagos into another Dubai in terms of infrastructural development.

A real estate conference to discuss how to develop and sustain foreign investor confidence for Nigerian mortgages, and expand the mortgage industry is to hold in Lagos on August 18 and 19.