CHRIST Embassy Church, during the week, flagged off its nationwide free distribution of over 30 million copies of Rhapsody of Reality, a daily devotional of the church and Bibles, in commemoration of Nigeria’s 53rd Independence anniversary celebration, reports PETER DURU.

Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo has called on the leadership to address Nigeria’s structural challenges to move the country forward.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has banned the importation of all foreign currencies except with approval.

As Nigeria marks 53 years of independence today, one of the salient issues bordering the citizenry is the development of its gas resources. This is because despite the abundant gas reserve estimated at about 187 trillion cubic feet and a further undiscovered potential estimated at 600 trillion cubic feet, gas is not yet available to every household or industrial concern in the country.

NERC is directly involved in the privatization because there are many components of the transaction, there is a regulatory, there is a transaction, and there is a policy. The policy of course, is that of the federal government with the National Council on Privatisation, NCP, and the Ministry of Power, deciding that we should privatise. But the mode of privatisation is already provided in the Act setting up the NCP and the Bureau of Public Entreprises, BPE – of course the Electric Power Reform Act.

The National Council on Privatisation, NCP, has disclosed that the Federal Government will earn about $8.3 billion (N1.328 trillion) from the sale of the unbundled power generation and distribution companies of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.

A teenage girl working as a maid in India’s capital was recovering in hospital Tuesday after being rescued from a home where campaigners said she was slashed with knives and mauled by dogs.

The Federal Government has said that it will soon begin the surveillance of Nigeria’s pipelines with aircraft manned by Nigerian pilots, trained under the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF programme.

Gas flaring which is the greatest environmental hazard in the Niger Delta is the burning of natural gas that is associated with crude oil when it is pumped up from the ground. This is the cheapest method of separating crude oil, from associated gas and has been proven to cause pollution damaging to human health.

The US federal government shut down for the first time in 17 years on Tuesday, after hours of political brinkmanship failed to end a congressional budget row.

By all accounts, Nigeria’s political history has shown that the struggle for independence and nationhood has not only been tortuous and cumbersome but daunting and tasking

Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s initiative on national conference is in sync with the Senate position.

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on Tuesday said it would support any dialogue that would bring about the strengthening of the Nigeria Project.

Former Transport Minister, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, on Tuesday, said democracy has stabilised Nigeria.

Nigerians scoring the power sector below average, some would say is being very generous in view of the prevalent crisis in the nation’s power sector, which has gone on for decades, unabated. But with the sale of the unbundled power companies from PHCN, to private investors, KUNLE KALEJAYE, writes that there is hope for better days ahead.