IJAW youths of Edo State, have appealed to Governor Adams Oshiomhole to address the imbalance and injustice being metted out to them by their neighbours, the Bini, in the sharing of political offices in Ovia-South West and Ovia North East Local Government Areas of the state.

The Managing Director of Lift Above Poverty Organisation, LAPO, Mr. Godwin Ehigiamusoe, has said that microfinance institutions are not a cure-all for poverty that is being experienced in the country.

First Funds Limited, a subsidiary of First Bank Plc, has invested N600 million as strategic equity investment in one of the nation’ leading operating and finance lease companies ,VT Leasing Limited.

For Koya Arowosegbe, life will never be the same again, owing to the loss of his right hand during an attack by his landlady’s son at their Agboro, Iyana-Ipaja abode, last Thursday.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has assured of its commitment to encourage upstream oil & gas, and telecommunication companies to list in Nigeria to diversify the sector distribution of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

American energy giant, ExxonMobil has pioneered the use of made in Nigeria pipes in the oil and gas industry. The company is also set to deploy Helical Submerged Arc Welded (HSAW) pipes fabricated locally by SCC Pipe Mills for its Usari-Idoho pipeline replacement project in Akwa Ibom state.

PRELATE of the Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, yesterday, expressed support for the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to seek extension of the forthcoming compilation of voters register and the 2011 election, saying if that would guarantee a credible election in the country, the request should be granted without delay.

MEMBERS of the National and State Assemblies in Enugu State seeking re-election for another term on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would not be given automatic tickets to contest the 2011 elections, the state leader of the party, Governor Sullivan Chime, insisted yesterday.

The Chinese Embassy said on Monday that trade between Nigeria and China in the first half of 2010 reached $36.76 billion (about N5.3 trillion). Mr Rong Yansong, the Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the embassy, disclosed this at the promotional event of China-made pharmaceuticals and medical devices products in Lagos.

The National Examinations Council, NECO, has released the June/July Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, SSCE, within 68 days but with another mass failure results.

Ahead of the nation’s 50th independent anniversary celebrations in the Federal Capital Territory, the Nigeria Army yesterday asked the public not to panic over movement of military equipment and deployment of of troops to Abuja from different parts of the country to take part in rehearsals for the parade and displays for the October 1 events.

*Ribadu to run on ACN platform By Emma Ujah, Daniel Idonor & Henry Umoru ABUJA—AHEAD of the primaries of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, three northern presidential aspirants; Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, General Aliyu Gusau and Dr. Bukola Saraki, exuded confidence of winning the party’s ticket. Kwara State governor and Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Dr. Bukola Saraki […]

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said he would fight against corruption with all his might, just as he urged Nigerians to join him in the crusade.

THE immediate past National Security Adviser, NSA to President Goodluck Jonathan, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, yesterday, picked his expression of interest form number 005 and nomination form number 007 at the Wadata plaza, National Secretariat of the PDP. Gusau obtained his form through proxy by one of the factional chairmen of PDP, Zamfara State, Alhaji […]

FORMER Chairman of the Financial and Economic Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, confirmed that he would run for the January 2011presidential election on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN Addressing a news conference in Abuja, he said the party which changed its name recently would be more robust with a national […]