PERHAPS, if Bajide Kehinde, a 25-year-old Ondo state born graduate of school of Oceanography and Marine Research, Victoria Island, Lagos had known that a mid- afternoon call put across to him by his very good friend Adeyemi Feyijimi would turn out nightmarish, he would probably have ignored it and enjoy his sleep at his sister’s residence where he was already in bed.

Fire, according to a popular saying, is a good servant and a bad master. And when it chooses to be a bad master, there are usually tears and wailing on account of lives or property lost or both.

Standard Chartered Bank has been named Best Emerging Market Bank in Africa in Global Finance magazine’s annual awards. This is the second consecutive year that Standard Chartered Bank Africa has topped the tables with Global Finance.

Skye Bank Plc has commenced a promotion for its existing and prospective Visa card customers.
The promotion is expected to produce 10 winners who will have the opportunity of going to South Africa for the FIFA 2010 World Cup.

The Miners Association of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja commended the World Bank for extending its programme on the Sustainable Management of Mineral Resources Project.

By Henry Umoru ABUJA—THE National Chairman of Democratic Peoples’ Party, DPP, General Jeremiah Useni has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, to as a matter of urgency put in place a panel that would determine the motions to allow the Sokoto Court of Appeal deliver the gubernatorial election petition judgment. […]

Breaking news: Yar’Adua to address the National Assembly by 12noon today.

No, not anymore, DO HAVE A FUN FILLED APRIL FOOOOOOOOOOLS DAY!!!

By Abdulwahab Abdulah A group of lawyers, under the aegis of Equity Forum, has declared its support for the Supreme Court’s order, restraining the Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal from delivering its judgment on the Sokoto State governorship petition. The group argued that but for the timely intervention of the Supreme Court, restraining […]

By Taye Obateru Jos — Following the refusal of the Jos High Court to grant an injunction sought by the General Officer Commanding, GOC, 3 Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, Major-General Saleh Maina, to stop the coroner’s inquest into the killings in Dogon Na Hauwa, Plateau State, the Senior Magistrate’s Court, Bukuru yesterday began […]

THE quest for good corporate governance in Nigeria suffered a set back, yesterday, as the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, released its Report on 2005 Audits of the extractive industries in the country which indicted the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.