Oil and gas firms’ operating in the country borrowed about N3.443 trillion from banks in Nigeria in a two- year period between 2011 and 2012.

Boniface Okezie: I think beyond calling on companies to be listed on the exchange, both the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) should be able to create an enabling environment for oil companies to list. It is not only about mere pronouncement for them to come and list, and not only about the listing fees that will be paid.

WHEN 25-year-old Linda Godwin, a primary school teacher residing at 11, Odofin Street, Olodi Apapa in Lagos, discovered a tiny lump (seed) in her right breast sometime in January 2012, she had no premonition she was on the threshold of a long and tortuous journey into the agonizing world of cancer.

President Goodluck Jonathan and senior party officials are today, set to resume their peace talks with the breakaway governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

NATIONAL Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has dismissed government claims that over 70 percent of the workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, have been paid their terminal benefits in preparation for private sector’s investors takeover of the assets of PHCN, saying the government is economical with the truth.

A team of researchers have published in Naturethat the major malaria vector in Africa, the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, is able to smell major human host odorants better at night.

FORMER Minister of Science and Technology, Major General Sam Momah (rtd), yesterday advised President Goodluck Jonathan to sacrifice his ambition of standing for election in 2015 for the common good of the nation.

The Flames of Malawi have sent an advance party to Nigeria ahead of Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against the Super Eagles in Calabar.

The 15th edition of the NNPC/Chevron Tennis Clinic ended at the weekend with the organizers picking the best players out of the 100 participants to form the new tennis academy bankrolled by the joint venture company.

The police in Enugu have arrested two young men, who were in possession of two locally-made double-barrel guns concealed in a bag while travelling from Enugu to Port Harcourt, Rivers State in a mass transit bus, Sunday.

The Federal Government has committed a staggering N1.63 trillion on 223 on-going highway projects spread across the six geo-political zones of the country.

One of the most significant challenges facing insurers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is their ability to grow profitability and differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive operating environment, a report by A.M Best has said. The GCC is host to three insurance hubs servicing the Middle Eastern & Northern Africa (MENA) region – the […]

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara yesterday said the breakaway Peoples Democratic Party, PDP would not thrive in the state.

WITH the smuggling activities in the Idiroko border reducing to the barest minimum as a result of dedication, consistency and lack of compromise by the Customs men on the road, the Area Comptroller Ogun State command, Prince Ade Dosunmu in this interview with Customs Watch discussed a number of industry issues especially the compliance level of importers in ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme (ETLS) which he admitted has been encouraging.

The Federal Government has commenced an assessment of the financial sector to determine the threats and vulnerabilities of the country to money laundering and terrorism financing.