Focus on meeting domestic gas obligations is one of the reasons the Federal Government is unable to fast track the taking of final investment decisions, FID, on major gas export projects.

AFTER Nigeria’s Super Eagles first match against Argentina in the on-going football World Cup (SA 2010), some writers and analysts were quick to impress it on enthusiasts that they saw significant impact of coaching on our boys.

“WHETHER the Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina is in the country or has run away is not as important as the way we handle matters.

Plans to roll out a budget of the Federal Government for fiscal 2015 were last night steeped in more controversy, following the emergence of significant differences between the Senate and the House of Representatives on the issue.

CHAIRMAN of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Imos State, Marshal Okafor Anyanwu, has accused Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State of destroying the party to satisfy his pay masters in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP..

It was a bloody weekend at Igando area of Lagos State, when a suspected kidnapper said to be operating in Delta State, attacked the Lagos home of his girlfriend, killing her and seven others.

TWO things made me happy more than the winning of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations by the Super Eagles in South Africa. One was the relationship between Keshi and the Super Eagles players.

ONE of the international goals and strategies related to elimination and prevention of HIV infection in infants and young children as set by the United Nations General Assembly Special Session,UNGASS, in 1996, was reduction of infant and child mortality rate by at least one-third by 2010.

THE Constitution of this country has established the prime value of the currency of Nigerian citizenry, and our politics instead of being the cultivation of the appreciation of Nigerian citizenry, has been and continues to be a process of a structured depreciation of the value of citizenry.

PRESIDENT Jonathan appears to be agnostic on the subject. In this area, it would be correct to assert that there has been leadership failure.(b) The military established unitary secondary schools, again contrary to the assignment of this function to sub-national level governments in the 1963 Constitution it suspended: only higher education was on the Concurrent Legislative List.

Reprocessing is speculated to be the main issue of contention, but recent reports suggests that a Korean enrichment plant is said to be under the supervision of international networks, with reprocessing being done in a third country such as Japan.

DESPITE the tough times, Toyota Nigeria Limited, last year maintained the number one position on the imported vehicle chart with a total of 19,755 vehicles. The figure represents 40.7 per cent of the total new vehicles imported into the country in 2012 and a difference of 29.6 per cent compared to their total import the previous year when they finished with 15,238 vehicles, and had 29.7 per cent of the market share.

The interactive session between the United States senior diplomat and three Nigerian journalists at the U.S. consulate in Lagos had been scheduled the week before. Ambassador Adam Ereli, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the States Department heads the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which has a budget of $635 million and over 400 employees.

THE sacked National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode Mustapha, yesterday, approached the Ogun State High Court sitting in Isabo, with an application exparte, seeking an order of the court to stop the PDP from removing him from office.

An Ikeja Magistrate Court, Monday, remanded a 21-year-old Okada rider, who allegedly used a toy gun to dispossess his victim of cash and property valued at N48,000.