PROFESSIONALS and stakeholders in the oil industry are gearing up for the 8th edition of the Annual Aret Adams Memorial Lecture Series, slated for March 3, in Lagos.

OIL exploration in Nigeria has slumped to the lowest in a decade after producers including Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Total SA, backed away from investment until the country’s petroleum law is passed.

Lagos-The Commandant, Nigeria Police College Ikeja, Mr Abdullahi Magaji, on Sunday said police trainees with questionable character would no longer be allowed to pass out of the institution.

Maiduguri – The Chairman of Borno Tanker Drivers Association, Alhaji Rawa Gana, on Monday defected from PDP to ANPP along with some 2,000 members.

Zurich, -FIFA will decide next month how many places each continent will be allocated at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, a member of the executive committee was reported as saying on Sunday.

New York- The U.S. has condemned Libya’s use of lethal force against peaceful demonstrators, with unconfirmed media reports putting the death toll in the country at 300. A statement issued by the State Department  expressed grave concern that the number of deaths was unknown in the country because of a lack of access to news […]

Maiduguri – The 21 Armored Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, said it had discovered several high profile arms concealed in an abandoned golf wagon car on Ngala Road in Maiduguri.

Unbridled importation of food items and other non-essentials by Nigeria has attracted criticisms from organisations within and outside the country, which called on the 3Federal Government to evolve a stitch-in-time initiative, as a foil against unwholesome depletion of the nation’s foreign exchange reserves.

Registered opposition political parties yesterday alerted that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have allegedly budgeted over N2 billion to purchase voters’ cards in states where President Goodluck Jonathan seemed to be at a disadvantage.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was on the hot spot, weekend, as fury raged among opposition political parties after the commission confirmed that it would discard the N40 billion Direct Data Capture, DDC, machines during the forthcoming election.

SHELL Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo, operated Bonga Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading, FPSO vessel, is scheduled to shut down for four weeks for the first of a five-yearly routine maintenance exercise.

Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has called for an investigation into the allegation of judicial malpractice leveled against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami.

The fragile peace in the nation’s health sector was further threatened, weekend, when health workers in the Federal Government-owned health institutions nationwide directed their members to disregard no-work, no-pay circular issued by the Federal Government, saying “it is a mere threat to jeopardise their efforts to fight for their right.”

THOSE who died in the recent stampede at the Port Harcourt Liberation Stadium did not die in vain, says wife of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has said a 50-year-old suspected drug trafficker, Offiah Vincent, died after ingesting wraps of methamphetamine, said a statement by the NDLEA’s spokesman, Mitchell Ofoyeju, on Saturday in Lagos.