NIGERIANS seeking medical treatment from health facilities in India and Pakistan may be at risk of contracting a new superbug infection that is said to be resistant to virtually all known antibiotics.

First Hydrocarbon Nigeria, FHN, in which Afren holds a 45 percent interest, said it has entered into Definitive Agreements with a number of International Oil Companies, IOCs.

Anglo-Dutch Shell local unit in Nigeria has said it will continue to invest in oil and gas exploration and production, despite the challenges in the operating environment.

Elswedy Electric Nigeria Limited, a joint venture firm between the Lagos State Government and an Egypt_based power firm said it plans to invest about $120million or N18billion in the nation’s power sector.

A coalition of civil society groups under the umbrella of Joint Action Forum (JAF) and organised labour have kicked against Federal Government planned privatisation of Power Holding Companies of Nigeria (PHCN).

THE challenges posed by healthcare wastes dominated discourse at the 5th Medical Waste Summit organised by the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) in collaboration with relevant stakeholders in the state.

A PRIMARY mortgage bank, Messrs Cornerstone Mortgages Limited, owners of Rose Garden Estate located within Shagari Estate GRA, Egbeda, Lagos is dangling a 10 percent mortgage facility to low and medium income earners who want to buy properties in the estate.

Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Skye Bank Plc, Mr. Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti, has pledged the bank’s continued commitment towards the funding of the key sectors of the economy as a way of promoting the growth of the economy and increasing national output.

Shareholders of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBANK ) Plc have endorsed proposed plans by its Board of Directors to divest from non banking subsidiaries in compliance with the new directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and the Lagos State Government, LASG, have signed the Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, for the allocation of 15 hectares of land for the proposed Lekki Greenfield Refinery, valued at $6billion (N900bn).

Chevron Nigeria Ltd, CNL, on Friday announced the launch of the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, PIND, to advance its new developmental initiative to address some of the socio-economic challenges in the Niger Delta region.

The preamble of the piece of legislation: Prohibition of Acts of Terrorism, states that: “A person who knowingly, does attempts or threatens to do an act prepatory to or in furtherance of an act of terrorism or commits to do anything that is reasonably necessary to prevent an act of terrorism or assists or facilitates the activities of persons engaged in an act of terrorism, commits an offence”.

Aftermath of the alleged threat that a faceless group would bomb the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, security operatives have beefed up security at the headquarters of the anti-graft agency.

The House of Representatives adhoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has approved thirty post-election days before the handover date in 2011, just as it has adopted the 150 days recommended by the Muhammed Uwais’ Electoral Review Committee, to allow time for judicial pronouncements on election litigations.

By George Onah Port Harcourt-No fewer than 35 people, among them a soldier, have been reported killed in a cross-border clash between Boje and Nsadop communities, Boki Local Government of Cross River State. The fight was over a piece of farmland. Vanguard learnt that scores of houses, including mansions and a housing estate belonging to […]