GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has signed the amended 2009 Appropriation Bill into law, with a reallocation of N11billion from overhead budget to capital budget.

FRENCH giant Total has moved expatriate staff and their families from Gabon’s industry hub Port Gentil to the capital Libreville because of post-election violence.

JAPAUL Oil and Maritime Services Plc, has reassured its shareholders of its improved performance and impressive returns on their investments, despite the challenges posed by insecurity and restiveness in the Niger-Delta region.

As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR), the Association of Professional Women Bankers of Nigeria (APWB),has flagged off cervical cancer sensitization and screening programme for market women.

SEVEN-Up Bottling Company Plc (7-up) recently released its full year result for the period ended 31st March 2009, showing a fair performance in view of the recent economic challenges.

ERSTWHILE Super Eagles skipper, Austin Jay Jay Okocha’s new portfolio in the Green Eagles has been explained by the Nigeria football Federation.

By Taye Obateru & Adedoyin Ojosipe Jos – Minister of Information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili has challenged Nigerians to fight the negative tag given to them abroad by showcasing the positive virtues of the country. She said, while launching the Rebranding Nigeria Campaign for North Central Zone, yesterday, that there were many positive things […]

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.

TODAY, the final rites of passage would be completed with interment for an exceptional Nigerian, a man who dedicated his life to the struggle for improvement in all areas of our troubled national life – Chief Abdul-Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi (SAN), better known to the rest of us as Gani.

By Tordue Salem ABUJA – The Plateau State Elders’ Consultative Forum has written President Umaru Yar’Adua, asking him to restrain the party’s National Chairman, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, from stirring up fresh trouble in the crisis-prone state ahead of the 2011 elections. The Forum in a letter addressed to the President yesterday and signed by the […]

THE rising profile of infant, child and maternal deaths in Nigeria has remained worrisome especially as the country ranks fourth in the world amongst countries with high infant and maternal mortality rates.

Enugu-The Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA), says about 50 per cent of businesses in the South East zone have closed shops because of upsurge in crime. Dr Emeka Okereke, the Director General of the chamber, said this in an interview with newsmen in Enugu, yesterday  while reacting to insecurity challenges in […]

The Executive Governor, Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fasola, has urged the participating students in the on-going Lagos Inter Tertiary Games to be of good behaviour and embrace the spirit of friendship during the Games.

By Gab Ejuwa THERE can be no doubt that the establishment of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Develop-ment Commission (DESOPADEC) was an epochal brainwave of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan’s Government. It was to  see to the social and infastructural development of the oil-producing communities in the state. But in recent times, feelers from this agency […]

Real Zaragoza’s Nigerian striker Ikechukwu Uche, who failed to sparkle and crackle in the recent 2010 World Cup qualifier against Tunisia, is set to undergo an urgent surgery to fix a ruptured ligament in his left knee that could keep him out of action for the rest of the season.