Oil earnings dip by N36bn in Q2
The contribution of the oil and gas sector to the Nigerian economy declined significantly in the second quarter of 2013, as revenue accruable to the Federal Government from the sector dipped by N35.7 billion.
Mobile technology’ll boost payments system – Sanusi
THE CBN boss said the Nigerian Payments System would witness a boost when several proposed mobile technology initiatives become operational.
Book serial: Alabi-Isama’s recruits: Yesterday’s boys, today’s big men
Yesterday we ran the first instalment of this book serial, in which you read how starched uniforms and brass bands was all it took for young Godwin Alabi-Isama to decide on a lifetime in the military, and trained in Nigeria and Aldershot, England. As tactics instructor at military school, he had the honour of being sent on a recruitment tour during which he brought some of today’s big names into the Army. READ ON.
Expectations rise as FG concludes sale of electricity assets
Until last week, analysts were sceptical about the success privatisation of the nation’s 15 electricity Generation Companies, GENCOs, and Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs.
FG adopts new approaches to tackle housing deficit
WHEN President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Stakeholders Retreat on Housing and Urban Development, promised that the Federal Government will revolutionalise the housing sector by translating the National Housing Policy and National Urban Development Policy into a road map for housing development, it was expected that many would be enthusiastic.
50-yr-old accused of stabbing neighbour
A 50-year-old artisan, Christopher Ozor, was, yesterday, arraigned by the police, before an Igbosere Magistrate Court in Lagos, for allegedly using a broken bottle to stab his neighbour, Mr. Ikenna Chukwudi, on the head during a scuffle.
