In continuation of activities marking Nigeria’s 50th anniversary, First Bank Nigeria Plc has rewarded yet another set of customers in the ongoing golden anniversary promotion draw held in Ilorin, Kwara state.
The golden promotion is coming on the heels of the just concluded series of value adding, level changing and consumers oriented promotions the bank has held over the past couple of years.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Ebele Jonathan yesterday in Lagos unveiled a chain of planned projects for the Nigeria oil and gas industry aimed at enhancing the country’s status as the hub of petro-chemical business on the continent and to reap bountifully from the vast deposits of hydrocarbon through job creation.

DESPITE the closure of the Ogun State House of Assembly by the Presidency, the Group of 11 legislators yesterday gained access to the Assembly complex under heavy security and passed the N106 billion Appropriation Bill for year 2011.

Tragedy struck Monday in the sparsely populated new Kpansia layout of Yenagoa the Bayelsa State capital as a family of three was sent to their untimely grave by fume from a generator plant.

Democracy activists in Saudi Arabia say the government is closely monitoring social media to nip in the bud any protests inspired by uprisings that swept Arab countries, toppling leaders in Egypt and Tunisia.

The Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media, Imma Niboro, has distanced the Federal Government from the statement of the Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba Aji that the President would not assent to the Freedom of Information, FoI, Bill.

No fewer than 145 registered Nigerian pensioners resident in the UK are to participate in the biometric data capturing exercise for pensioners scheduled to start from March 1.

Tea sellers in Maiduguri have increased the price of tea due to the high cost of sugar

Rivers Commissioner for Sports, Boma Iyaye, says many facilities for the 17th National Sports Festival are now ready for use.

ACN gubernatorial candidate in Ogun, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun, has promised to implement a free education and health care programmes if elected.

Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, said yesterday it was set to start the second round of non-performing loan purchases from the banking sector and was on track to soak up all bad credit by the end of next month.

Nigeria’s Minister of Sports and Chairman National Sports Commission, Prof Taoheed Adedoja has invited the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for a meeting over the aborted Obama Cup in the United States of America and possibly seek redress over the trauma the Super Eagles went through due to lack of proper planning by the organizers.

Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba Aji, vowed yesterday to ensure that the president does not sign the Freedom of Information, FoI, Bill into law even as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media, Senator Ayogu Eze assured that the Senate will pass the Bill, in accordance with the yearnings of Nigerians

Eleven persons arraigned before a Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Kaiama, over their alleged involvement in the attack on the Labour Party governorship candidate in Bayelsa State and his party supporters at Opokuma in the Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of the state on January 7, 2011 in which some lives were lost, were, yesterday, remanded at Ahaoda Prisons, as the court adjourned till April 3, to rule on their bail application.

GUBERNATORIAL candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has explained the defection of Senator Olusola Saraki from the Peoples Democratic Party as a natural flow of a father’s love who cannot disown his daughter.