It was revealed last week that Nigerian telecom subscribers put together are unknowingly losing about N1bn on daily basis to call drops due to poor telecommunications services in the country.

Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, yesterday, told the Senate Committee on Aviation that the aviation sector was in total collapse when she assumed duty as minister, saying she had repositioned the sector to meet global standards.

THREE persons, including a chief, have been arrested by the Police in OndoState for robbery.
Vanguard gathered that the three suspects, in November this year, invaded the house of one Mrs Esther and robbed her of a Toyota Camry car.

No nation can effectively develop its public infrastructure when it is deeply steeped in the rot of contract review as apparently institutionalised in Nigeria today.

Mixed reactions, yesterday, trailed remarks by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal that the executive arm of government was paying lip service to the fight against corruption.

ADO-EKITI — THE Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, yesterday, presented a budget proposal of N103.882 billion for the 2014 financial year, with water supply taking the lion share.

The member representing Ughelli Constituency II, in Delta State House of Assembly, Edoja Akpodiete, has dumped Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, for Peoples Democratic Party PDP.

A governorship aspirant of the Labour Party, LP, in Ekiti State, Opeyemi Bamidele, yesterday, denied defecting from any political party.

TIME was about 10:30 pm Nigerian time and the BBC’s Hard Talk was on the screen on this dark night of December 5, 2013. I had only minutes before finished writing my original copy for the column this week.

Mr Rotimi Adebari is the first black African Mayor in Ireland. Adebari was elected in 2007 as the Comhairle Chontae Laois County Council. Adebari was a guest speaker at the Ogun Day celebration held recently in Abuja. In this interview the council man posits that it is imperative for Nigeria to convene a national conference to address the multifarious problems that have so far besieged the country.

For efficient spectrum management in the Nigerian growing telecoms industry, the Chief Regulatory Officer of GSMA, Tom Phillips, has urged the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to revoke spectrum license of dormant Code Divisional Multiple Access, CDMA, operators in the country.

IT has been a recurring decimal of unrest at Ayetoro-Ibudo, by Itele, Ado-Odo Ota local government of Ogun State leading to the destruction of properties worth millions of Naira and many lives lost. Also, many residents were rendered homeless while others were forced into exile.

Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has appealed to politicians to avoid undue interference with activities of law enforcement agencies in the country.

Transcorp Plc. has reduced its contingent liabilities by N7.3 billion following its reorganisation scheme, even as it projects a Profit Before Tax (PBT) of N7 billion for the year ending 2013.

The leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State, has called on the Simeon Iwunze-led House of Assembly panel to apologize to the former deputy governor, Sir Jude Agbaso, or resign honourably from the House.