EIGHT residents of Bundu waterfront have so far been confirmed dead in the shooting Monday morning by security operatives who were in the area to pave way for the enumeration of houses for demolition.

TWENTY-FOUR hours to the end of tomorrow’s deadline by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), to restart hostilities in the Niger-Delta region, the Federal Government is supposedly strategising with some of the ex-militant leaders to checkmate the insurgent group.

Since coming into office, the Minister of State for Information and Communications, Alhaji Aliyu Ikra Bilbis, is not known for too many words and as a matter of fact have not been heard so much. But it seems that the urgent need to realise the dream of Nigeria becoming one of the 20 top economies of the world by the year 2020, is bringing out the tiger in him.

The FIFA U-17 World Cup will arrive in Enugu today. The tour has been designed to showcase the trophy to teeming soccer loving people of Enugu.

As the two day national workshop on the status and software development in Nigeria, stakeholders have called for improvement of local content in software development in Nigeria, as a critical element for realization of Vision 20:2020.

Determined to make businesses enterprises in Nigeria more profitable, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has said that it is committed to growing small and medium scale business sector in Nigeria by continuously introducing intuitive laser and link-based products which will assist businesses to tailor their portfolio according to their precise needs.

No fewer than Nine new millionaires emerged in the Etisalat 9jillions promotion last week, in the Sokoto edition of its One9ja million dollar game show. The game show, which held weekend in the seat of the caliphate, Sokoto State, witnessed a massive turnout of participants as over N11 million was given away by the telecommunications company during the show.

Internet Service Provider, Linkserve made it double last week, when it announced the appointment of Mr. Victor Oisaghie as the company’s new Managing Director as well as the launch of a new product tagged Linkserve Hosting

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) yesterday said it had begun mobilisation of all senior staff affiliates and masses for industrial action and mass protest ahead of the November 1, 2009 planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry by the government.

A former manager with the Union bank Plc, Mr Alex Nkenchor and one Ebi Odeigah of GMT Securities and Assets Nigeria Limited, were yesterday remanded in prison custody over alleged N860 million fraud.

Efforts by the state government to retool for knowledge economy with Information Communication Technology for global competitiveness have started yielding results with the level of interest shown by Ministry of Science & Technology of many states government at the just concluded IT Public- Private Forum, (ITPPF) held in Kano State recently

The President and Chairman of Council of the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) Ibrahim Tizhe, has confirmed participation as the Chairman of occasion at the ground breaking debate on the brunt of the global economic meltdown on the nation’s ICT industry.

No fewer than 3,645 cardiac cases were recorded at the Reddington Cardiac Centre from 2006 to date, with 408 cases only in 2006.

Indication has emerged that the aggrieved shareholders of Spring Bank Plc may regain their investment from Bank PHB Plc .
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi has said that the aggrieved shareholders of the contentious Spring Bank may be accommodated under the current dispensation following the sack of the managing directors and executive directors Spring Bank and Bank PHB.

Two Petroleum marketing companies, Conoil Plc and African Petroleum Plc, led 40 other listed companies with share price gains, provoking a N15.22 billion appreciation on the total value of listed equities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Monday.