THE Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, has blamed the perennial congestion which has engulfed Ashaye terminal of the Tin Can Island port on inadequate logistics support of containers for scanning by the terminal operator.

The solid minerals sector plays host to a whole lot of mining activities relating to exploration and extraction of mineral deposits by companies across the country. The solid mineral resources are on the exclusive list of the nation’s constitution, and therefore are solely under the control of the federal government.

PROFESSOR Mkpa Agu Mkpa, the Secretary Government of Abia State, weekend, survived a ghastly auto crash along Abiriba road, leading to his home town.

BY  TONY EDIKE &CALEB AYANSINA ABUJA—The President, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has urged the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to shift ground to resolve the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the union. This came as lecturers at Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, reaffirmed […]

Seven years ago Web Fontaine was contracted by the Federal Government, to carry out a modernisation exercise of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Managing Director of Web Fontaine, Mr. Muktar Ahmed in this interview with Godwin Oritse, said that the modernisation project has placed the Customs Service on a better stead for more efficient performance with regard to the issue of cargo delivery.

NIGERIA Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has warned Petroleum Dealers Association of Nigeria, PEDAN, and the oil marketers to fully implement provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, CBA, and extant labour legislations to avoid industrial unrest.

The U.S. President, Barack Obama, has congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan and the people of Nigeria as the nation celebrates 53rd anniversary it Independence Day on Oct.1.

Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, politician, industrialist and publisher of Champion Newspapers, is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

As the country marks its 53rd anniversary, motorists going in and out of Bauchi State are now being made to undergo serious security checks, thus leading to traffic congestion in most parts of the metropolis.

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has again asked the Boko Haram insurgents to lay down their arms and embrace peace, saying that although the country was experiencing hard times, the situation was not bad enough for some people to lose the will to live in the mistaken belief that it is better to die but not alone.

23rd of September 2008. 9 am. I was in theatre assisting the caesarean section delivery of a patient at the National Hospital in Abuja when I heard the news. I always thought it paradoxical that I was helping to bring forth a life just at about the same time the life of the one who brought me forth was slipping away. The consultant informed me that I had a visitor and instructed me to scrub out. As I walked out of theatre into the hallway, still wearing my surgical mask I saw my Aunt. She didn’t have to say a word; I saw it in her eyes. My father had passed on.

WE need no eschatological clairvoyance to know that political-socio-economic vicissitudinary turgescency are inextricably intertwined with developmental strides in the life and times of any individual, state or nation.

The passage of Pius Akpo Ewherido into the great beyond, has created opportunity for the making of another Senator to represent the Delta State Central Senatorial seat in the Senate Chamber at Abuja.

Somalia’s Shebab Islamists insisted Monday that no woman joined them in an attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, dismissing speculation that British ‘White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite took part in the massacre.