….Gets 5,000 text messages in 3 days By Emma Amaize WARRI – GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has gone underground, following an exhaustive lobby on him by some leaders of the state and politicians to appoint their candidates as commissioners. The governor last week dropped 11 commissioners, but since then, he has not rested, […]

By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN-THE Women’s Health and Action Research Center (WHARC), a None Governmental Organization (NGO) in Edo State, has intervened in the harrowing experience of a seven-year-old rape victim, Amina Muhammed, with a scholarship scheme up to university level. The group also urged Nigerians to extend hands of love to victims of rape and […]

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA— A major leadership crisis is brewing in the Anambra State branch of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) as the South East zonal vice chairman of the party, Chief Austine Ndigwe, yesterday disowned the state leadership that was appointed recently. Addressing a news conference in Awka, Ndigwe, said the party was not […]

By Emma Amaize WARRI – The Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta has withdrawn its security personnel attached to one of the contractors, Fenog Nigeria Limited, a Warri-based oil service company, handling the repairs of the Escravos-Warri gas pipeline, putting in serious jeopardy the country’s hope of actualizing its 6,000 megawatts of electricity target […]

By Emma Amaize WARRI-TWELVE days to the expiration of the October 4 deadline by the Federal Government for militants to accept amnesty and surrender arms, the government has kept mute on the call by militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, that it should extend the deadline for proper disarmament exercise to be carried out. Vanguard […]

Five troubled banks whose managing directors and executive directors were sacked barely five weeks ago by the Central Bak of Nigeria (CBN) for alleged misuse of shareholders’ funds, have assured depositors and investors that their money was safe and protected and the debt recovery exercisewas ongoing.

Guaranty Trust Bank has introduced the first MasterCard branded, Naira denominated debit cards in Nigeria.The Bank in a statement said, “This innovation, which is also an ATM card, is fortified with the Chip and Pin technology and linked directly to the customer’s account. It allows the cardholder withdraw cash from all Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) which bear the MasterCard logo or stickers and pay for goods and services at MasterCard Point of Sale (POS) terminals.

THE National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS) has organised a highly interactive forum in order to provide an avenue for the multinationals to fashion ways of addressing issues that impede on the optimal operations of the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry.

THE Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has announced that it might be compelled to invoke certain provisions of its enabling Act following its observations that most of the power distribution companies operate in flagrant disobedience of its orders, rules and regulations.

ABUJA THE Petroleum Technology Development Fund, has said it plans to adopt the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Delta State , and the College of Petroleum Studies in the University of Port Harcourt , for training of beneficiaries of its Overseas Scholarship Scheme.

By  Umar Yusuf Yola – Emir of Mubi in Adamawa State, Alhaji Abubakar Isah Ahmadu, has alerted Governor Murtala Nyako on cholera epidemic ravaging the entire emirate. Emir Ahmadu who spoke in Yola when he led his subjects on a Sallah homage on the Governor requested the government to urgently come to their aid to […]

NIGERIA is one of the world’s poorest countries. One`fifth of Africa’s population is in Nigeria; two thirds of Nigerians, over 80 million people, live on less than $1 per day. One in five Nigerian children dies before its fifth birthday. A 2005 study noted the intensity of the poverty in Nigeria thus, “80 to 90 […]

THE Minister of Power, Dr. Lanre Babalola has hinted that the current demand for power in the country is in the range of 5,100 megawatts.

SEVERAL measures have been taken by the NNPC towards stemming the growing threat of global climate change.This was made known by the corporation’s group managing derector, Dr Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo during this years world environmental day celebration held recently at NNPC towers in Abuja.climate changes has become a major global economic sustainbility and growth, the world environment and the continued existence of man, a development which the NNPC boss said must be tackled by all.. ‘NNPC as a national oil and gas company has embarked on global control measures. we are striving with the JV partners to achieve gas flare-down in all our operation,’ the GMD who was represented by Group Executive Directors, Refining and Petrochemical, Engr Austine Oniwon said.

The Pan Express Services Limited, the company that was recently approved by the National Council on Privatization (NCP) as preferred bidder for the Skypower Aviation Handling Company Limited, SAHCOL at a bid price of N10.4 billion, said it has made concerted arrangement/agreement with its bankers who have agreed to form a consortium to pay for the purchase.