The arrest order placed on Chief Orji Kalu by the Imo House of Assembly on the grounds that he failed to personally appear before it to defend allegations he made against Governor Ikedi Ohakim has been described as an act of cowardice, orchestrated by Ohakim and ill- motivated.

Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has identified peace and unity as a major ingre-dient needed for the survival of the nation.

By Princewill Ekwujuru The Nigerian Economic Summit Group has slated Nigeria’s economic score card for discussion by industry and policy leaders at its forthcoming summit scheduled for December15-17, 2009 in Abuja tagged NES at 15 ‘Scorecard of Nigeria’s Economic Progress: Bridging the Implementation Gap . Mr. Frank Nweke, NESG spokesman, said Nigerian economic scorecard has […]

The leadership of Niger Delta Youths Forum (NDYF) says it has completed arrangements to float a peace concert to show that peace has finally returned to the region and reinforce the post-amnesty message.

By Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika It was also thought that even where cases are charged to court, the defence always find ways of delaying it forever thus undermining the integrity of the entire process. Hence (as some believe) the festering of corruption. However, as I have already pointed out, even these are not the reasons for corruption, […]

Nigeria has become the black sheep of the world oil producing community for her lack of accountability and unproductive use of the oil revenue. Among the OPEC countries, Nigeria is the least enterprising in the management of oil revenue. In Africa, Libya, Angola and Sudan have utilised their oil revenue better than Nigeria.

A GROUP of education rights activists, under the aegis of Education Rights Campaign (ERC), has condemned in its entirety the reported seizure of August and September salaries of public universities’ workers by the Federal government because of the recently suspended industrial action that paralysed the nation’s ivory towers for over three months.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has injected about N14.85 billion (US$100 million) in Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI). The injection represents equity investment in the bank, making the IFC one of the majority shareholders in the Pan-African bank, the parent company of the Ecobank Group. According to a statement by the bank, the investment is part […]

Nigerian farmers participating in the biocontrol of aflatoxins using Aflasafe — a biocontrol product developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), have said that grain quality after application of the product improved, signaling prospects of a significant drop in aflatoxins on the grains. “There has been an improvement in grain quality. With the […]

By  Franklin Alli Dana Steel Limited, the core investor in the Katsina Steel Rolling Company, has cut down the volume of its billets’ import by 81 per cent.  Billets are one of the raw materials used in the production of steel. Jacky Hathiramani, Managing Director of the company, said they have just commissioned their new […]