The Kaduna State contingent to the 18th National Sports Festival (NSF) on Monday decried the poor menu provided by organisers of the festival at the Games Village at the University of Lagos (Unilag).

Senator representing Nasarawa North, Sen. Solomon Ewuga, CPC, yesterday, dissociated himself from the ethnic crisis in Nasarawa South Senatorial District of the state.

The House of Representatives, yesterday, summoned former Minister of Works, Chief Tony Anenih, over the N2.3 billion purportedly disbursed for an abandoned road project in Nassarawa State in 2006.

In line with the payment mechanism for the privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN successor generation and distribution companies, the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, confirmed it has received bank guarantees of over $335.85million from the preferred bidders for the companies.

SEVERAL years ago, Andrew Carnegie, a famous motivational speaker, said “the men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.” In other words and succinctly put, consistency is key to success.

The Financial Reporting Council, FRC, has called for the enactment of a financial management law that will compel the federal and state governments to present financial statement.

One day, we will all die and when the time comes, there is nothing that can be done about it. Death is a debt every living soul must pay when the time comes”. These were the last words that Babangida Mohammed Danbaba, a Police Inspector attached to the Government House Bauchi, said to one of his colleagues at work.

SINCE November 1,2012 when he restriction on commercial motorcycles (Okada) transportation took effect in three prime cities of Delta State, namely Asaba, the state capital, Warri and Effurun, the response has been opinionated, depending on who is speaking and his/her perception of the new development.

Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, yesterday, disclosed that the Federal Government needed to invest N40.7 billion in infrastructure between now and 2015, even as plans have been concluded to commit $15 million in venture capital to boost the Information Communication Technology, ICT.

A FURTHER breakdown showed that while personnel allocation increased by N38.584bn, overheads got N1.836bn and capital N3.231bn, respectively.

Exactly three years ago, the Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko and the then Works & Housing Minister, Dr. Hassan Muhammad Lawal, inspected the reconstruction works on the ever-busy Lagos-Ore-Benin expressway. The traffic gridlock on that day was so frightening that Governor Mimiko and Dr Hassan Lawal became emergency traffic wardens.

THE colony of Nigeria was not federalist, the British did not co-ordinate contesting and putative rival sovereigns.

House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), yesterday, summoned the Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke, over the ministry’s huge allocations for rents in the ministry’s 2013 budget proposal.

IN recent times,Nigeria has preoccupied itself with the review/amendment of the 1999 Constitution, as amended. Yes, as amended! It is less than three years since the constitution was amended, you remember?

The Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, and the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria, PETAN, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU that will make creating employment for young and qualified graduates as part of the conditions for winning oil and gas contracts.