Former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has dumped Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, for All Progres-sives Congress, APC, describing PDP as a party that lacks discipline, fairness and internal cohesion.

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has directed Assistant Inspectors General of Police, AIGs, and Commissioners of Police, CPs, in the country to ensure a secure, peaceful and hitch-free anniversary by carrying out effective and efficient deployment of police personnel.

FORMER Senate President, Ken Nnamani, yesterday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a state of emergency on corruption, if that will address the problem.

Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, yesterday, said the nation’s airspace would have full aerial radar coverage from today as it migrates from procedural air traffic control to aerial radar control.

LIKE other sectors of Nigeria’s socio-economic existence, the story of the country’s energy sector since the Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, ECN, ordinance No. 15 of 1950, has been punctuated by operational failures. Although, those in charge of the nation’s power sector can claim otherwise owing to some distant and recent reforms in the sector.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to “provide information on the spending of N700 billion borrowed between December 31, 2012 and April 30, 2013, and to introduce a moratorium on borrowing.” SERAP said it will take legal action should the government not provide the information within 14 days. A letter […]

HAD Nigeria, like Britain, an unwritten constitution, no one would know ours is officially a secular country. Every politician not only wears his or her righteousness like the mark of Cain on the forehead but is also a lay pastor or imam.

IT is curious how a single word evokes diametrically opposite reactions from people. And yet this contrasting opposition, in more ways than one, spices piquantly people’s use of languages generally and the English language particularly.

THE brutal murder of British soldier, Lee Rigby, by two religious terrorists on May 22 is the immediate trigger for this week’s column.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, kick-started the N162.9 billion Zungeru Hydroelectric Power Project in Niger State.

THE key imprint of the transformation agenda heralded at the onset of the 2011 presidential election campaign was that Nigeria would be transformed into a new nation in various aspects of endeavour. Two years into his term, an analysis of the specific promises of transformation shows the administration succeeding in some sectors and also struggling to attain key parameters of the agenda in some strategic sectors.

The World Bank and its subsidiary, the International Finance Corporation, IFC, yesterday announced plans to invest about $1 billion (N159 billion) in Nigeria’s energy sector in the next couple of months.

FORMER president Olusegun Obasanjo has commended the courage and doggedness of Mrs Florence Seriki as an entrepreneur in the nation’s fledgling IT industry despite of gruelling challenges, saying that the local content policy, if well implemented, will drive spontaneous growth of the national economy.

Forces opposed to the return of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, yesterday, made fresh moves to unseat him as governor.

LAGOS — The Presidency, Tuesday, reacted to the claims by the National Publicity Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, that Nigeria missed her slot in the just concluded 50th anniversary of the African Union, AU, saying Fashakin was not only being ‘’silly’’ but ‘’foolish.’’