A member of the 10-man kidnap gang that allegedly abducted the 82-year-old Prof. Kamene Okonjo, mother of the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who claimed to be in charge of feeding the woman with bread and groundnuts while in captivity, was,Monday, arraigned on a four-count charge.

There has been a lot of back and forth on the fiscal terms proposed in the new Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB. In a recent media chat, Mr Abiye Membere, the Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production, NNPC, who was also a member of the technical committee that scrutinised the bill, explained that what government is trying to do with the bill is to block the avenues of revenue losses, as captured by Clara Nwachukwu

ABUJA—A public interest lawyer, Mr Bob Olukoya, has dragged the Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission, NAEC, and its Chairman, Dr. Franklin Osaisai, to court over unspent budget of 2010 and 2011.

If Alfa Lateef Amusa, a popular Islamic cleric in the Ijaye area of Abeokuta had known that the Egungun masquerade’s threat would lead to his death, he would have avoided them A minor altercation between the deceased and the masked but armed masquerades who had blocked the road that fateful Sunday, led to the death of Lateef. He was killed when one of the masquerades popularly called ‘Leyin Aponle,’ allegedly shot him at close range.

Will national interest be paramount in the passage of the new Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), now before the National Assembly? This has been the recurring question on the lips of Nigerians as the PIB is being assailed by vested and conflicting interests.