In line with the recent CBN regulation directing that all Nigerian banks switch from the magnetic stripe cards to the more secure ‘CHIP+PIN’ cards, eTranzact has gone ahead to launch its eTranzact Genesis CHIP+PIN Card.

THE Senate today approved the former governor of Kaduna State, Architect Namadi Sambo as the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria following his nomination by president Goodluck Jonathan.

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA — GOVERNOR Peter Obi has again reiterated his readiness to make Anambra a model state by the time he would have completed his second tenure in 2014. Speaking at the Women Development Centre, Awka, the state capital, while distributing processing equipment for garri, rice and palm oil, worth N30million to 50 […]

By Umar Yusuf YOLA — The National Assembly is to collaborate with private universities in the country towards raising the falling standard of education at all levels of the education sector. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Oladimeji Bankole, who disclosed this weekend in Yola at the 2nd convocation of the American University of […]

The Action Congress (AC) has urged the federal government to institute a probe into the way and manner the health crisis of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua was managed, so that useful lessons can be learnt from the whole unfortunate issue.

The All Youths Association of Nigeria, AYAN, United Kingdom chapter, has expressed mixed feelings over latest developments in the country’s polity. In a letter addressed to President Goodluck Jonathan by its chairman, Daniel Ohiooba, AYAN UK said, “at 50, Nigeria should have advanced from politics of ethnic, tribal and primordial sentiments  to a great nation […]

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA — ANAMBRA State Government has called on the 20 local government areas in the state, participating in the Fadama III Project to see themselves as key players that would facilitate the success of the programme at the community level. Under the programme, each of the participating local government area would receive […]

ABUJA— PRESIDENT Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is expected to deliver the opening address at the e-Nigeria 2010 Conference which opens today in, Abuja, organised by the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA. Also expected at the three-day event are the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr Steve Oronsaye and the Managing Director of […]

Delta State Civil Service Commission has declared that merit would be used as yardstick for selecting successful applicants who recently sat for examination conducted recently to engage people into the service.

By Taye Obateru Jos — The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan over the unresolved cases of the murder of journalists in the country, urging him to take steps to guarantee their safety. The letter signed by NUJ National Secretary, Mr. Shuaibu Leman, said:  “We are constrained to write to you […]

LOKOJA — Minister of Works, Senator Sanusi Daggash, has assured of the readiness of his ministry to undertake the complete rehabilitation of the Kabba-Ilorin, Kabba-Omuo and  Kabba-Obajana roads, over which work will begin soon. He also said work on the Iluke-Abugi road which is being handled by FERMA would be intensified. The minister gave the […]

If his economic policies failed the nation in his first coming, if his profligacy deprived the people of Nigeria the much needed development and if indeed he knows he is just one out of 150 million Nigerians, then he should appreciate the fact that he had his own chance to make the difference. We cannot continue to recycle people, who when they attain power, hold the rest of us hostage.

Several states are being threatened by dwindling revenue from the Federation Account and are scared of a bleak future if the situation in the oil market does not improve as the excess crude oil account which serves as a buffer has dried up with only $4.8 billion left unshared.

Nigeria is taking the lead in an aggressive new strategic plan designed to respond to different transmission dynamics, aimed at enhancing the successes of the global polio eradication drive, through utilisation of a new bivalent vaccine that addresses the problem of international spread of the wild polio virus.

The Murtala Muhammed International Airport Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested an aspirant into Edo State House of Assembly in the 2011 general election, Mr. Eme Zuru Ayotor, while attempting to export 2.120kg of cocaine.