The Nigeria Academy of Engineering has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to partner with Nigerian engineers to bring about the required national transformation in the nation.

The declining trend on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) was halted, Wednesday, as equities’ value representing the market capitalisation appreciated by N55.30 billion.

GOVERNOR Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State first emerged as chief executive through the constitutional provision that makes it mandatory for deputy governors to assume the governorship role of their states if the governor is either incapacitated or dies in office.

Access Bank Plc has emerged the winner of the 2011 Financial Times/International Finance Corporation, FT/IFC “Sustainable Bank of the Year Award” for Africa and Middle East region.

The recent violent unrest which engulfed most parts of Odi-Olowo area in Mushin, Lagos State, at the weekend, where over three persons were reportedly killed, while seven others sustained severe injuries and more than 10 vehicles got damaged, might not be one of those popular battles for supremacy which have been going on between street urchins in the area, in recent times.

The Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, urged President Goodluck Jonathan, to as a matter of urgency, direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to live up to the expectation of Nigerians by ensuring adequate supply and proper pricing of petroleum products, particularly kerosene, across the country.

RELATIVE peace has returned to Bayelsa the only homogenous Ijaw-speaking state in the federation regarded as the flashpoint of the troubled Niger Delta region

RELATIVE peace has returned to Bayelsa the only homogenous Ijaw-speaking state in the federation regarded as the flashpoint of the troubled Niger Delta region.

OIL prices rose Wednesday after the Federal Reserve acknowledged that U.S. economic growth has slowed but should pick up again soon.

The depreciation of the Naira against the dollar persisted as the official and interbank foreign exchange on Wednesday.

Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has called on government at all levels to reduce the high cost of governance in the country by effecting a downward review of emoluments of political office holders particularly, their allowances.

The Director General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, has said that tourism holds the key to Nigeria economic diversification as it is a veritable tool for stimulating rapid economic growth and development.

My views on different occasions and now on the implication of insistence on nominees of state governors as candidates for ministerial positions has always been that of a reminder of the nation of what we all went through between the 23rd of November 2009 up till February.

In our last edition, we did a cover story which was titled”Omotola in the eye of the storm! Husband angry over butt-grabbing photo at the Grammys…Why she apologized.”

Stakeholders in the country have commended the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) for saving the country the sum of N216billion from January 2010 to March 2011 by reducing the costs of contracts awarded by federal Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs).