MOVEMENT for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, has listed autonomy for the area among issues that must be addressed before oil exploration can resume in any part of Ogoniland.

Emotion ran high as friends, colleagues and family members paid their last respect to the late pop singer and former Big Brother Africa star, Goldie Harvey, when she was buried yesterday.

Yenagoa—In a bid to save the Ijaw language from extinction, Bayelsa State Government has awarded scholarships to 110 teachers to study Ijaw at the state Niger Delta University, NDU.

Nigeria’s quest for economic growth and development attained important milestones in the last 12 months, with the power sector, capital market, ports, agriculture and foreign direct investments recording significant improvements.

The prevailing peace in Oguta was badly shattered on Sunday, following the shooting of two mobile policemen and abduction of a prominent son of the community, Mr. Emeka Aseme, by suspected kidnappers.

The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko has said that smuggling of rice and other edible items through Seme and Idiroko borders has reduced following an increase in revenue profile of the two border posts.

Bauchi—Following the kidnap of seven foreigners in Jama’re Local Government Area of Bauchi State last weekend, security has now been beefed up in Bauchi metropolis, especially around the Triacta Nigeria Limited, a construction company handling the Bauchi International Airport.

Electronic dividend is okay in as much as it is done in an ideal way. It helps investors to get their dividends through electronic means. That is to say that they can access their dividends using their bank accounts which they must have given to the registrar.

When you buy shares from a company, the company issues a share certificate which indicate your name and the number of shares you bought. That is the documentary evidence of your shareholding in the company. But the advent of computers and electronic devises has made it possible to keep information in electronic form, which can always be printed on paper whenever necessary.

Arsene Wenger will face renewed calls to splash out on new signings after Arsenal announced a pre-tax profit of £17.8 million ($26.8 million, 20.3 million euros) in their half-yearly financial results on Monday.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has pledged to support the Kanu Heart Foundation (KHF) in its quest to build a befitting hospital for heart surgery in the country.

A video appeared on YouTube Monday of seven kidnapped members of a French family with their abductors, who claimed to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and demanded the release of prisoners.

The Lagos State government, weekend, said the ongoing reform exercise in the traffic management sector was aimed at improving traffic operatives’ sense of community services and achieve law enforcement with human face.

France said Monday that a video of a kidnapped French family with their abductors, who claimed to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram,

One of the leading telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has become the first mobile operator in the country to announce the availability of latest BlackBerry Z10 Smartphones in its show rooms across the country.