BY GBENGA OLARINOYE OSOGBO — The British Deputy High Commissioner in Nigeria, Mr. Peter Carter has described Osun State  as peaceful and viable for investors and investments. The envoy, who was on a business visit to the state during a courtesy call on Governor Rauf Aregbesola at the Government House in Osogbo lauded the commitment […]

To see Nigerians fully represented and actively involved in the petroleum and maritime industry, experts in both sectors have stressed the need for a deliberate policy to stimulate massive investment in human capital.

BY AUSTIN OGWUDA ASABA— FOR abandoning their profession of playing cultural music to venture into armed robbery, three young men have met their waterloo as they have been sentenced to death. An Ogwashi-Uku High Court in Delta State, yesterday, sentenced the three men to death by hanging, having found them guilty on a two-count charge […]

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has assured the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, that his administration would assist the organization, especially in the area of logistics for the effective control of the porous borders across the state.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, vowed to probe the circumstances surrounding the death of a 15-year-old Nigerian student, Austine Chukwuebuka Ogukwe, in Ghana.

A CHIEFTAIN of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, in Edo State and former Senior Special Assistant to Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Foreign Relations, Hon. Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma in this interview describes the present administration in the state as deceptive, dismissing as false the governor’s claims of having reduced Chief Tony Anenih to a community leader.

Mr. Daniel Adejobi, Ogun State Commissioner for Housing, yesterday, said his ministry had earmarked N4.3 billion for its expenditure in 2014. Adejobi spoke in Abeokuta while defending the 2014 budget proposal of the ministry at the Ogun House of Assembly. The commissioner said that N1.5 billion had been projected as revenue, while N100 million would […]

Following the report of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, on the degradation of Ogoniland by oil companies, the Federal Government is set to clean up the devastated areas through the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project, HYPREP, domiciled in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant in Ekiti State and Afenifere Chieftain, Prince Dayo Adeyeye has described the state government’s reaction to the allegation of non-payment of pensioners’ gratuity since last year as a say-nothing response

It was a great day for Nigeria and indeed Africa as Dr.Bernard Olumuyiwa Aliu’s election by acclamation was confirmed on Monday, 18 November 2013

Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shema, yesterday, signed into law, the bill passed by the state House of Assembly, amending some sections of the Penal Code Law, for harsher punishment for homosexuality.

Assistant Dean, Student Affairs, University of Benin, UNIBEN, Mr. Faith Osadolor, has condemned those he accused of being bent on spreading falsehood against the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. O. G Oshodin.

MANY issues naturally arise from the approval by the Federal Executive Council, FEC, last week, of a deep sea port for Lagos. The most prominent is the political significance of the decision against the backdrop of allegations that the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, may be hesitant in approving such a gigantic project with several positive draw-down effects on the economy of that hotbed of opposition to his presidency.

BY DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA—  Barely 24 hours after  some residents and traders in  Sango Ota area of Ogun State protested planned further demolition of structures by the state government, a counter protest was, yesterday, staged in the same area. The protesters included market men and women, members of various  unions and other interest groups, who […]

Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said that there is no reason whatsoever for the Corporation to deceive or mislead the citizenry about its operations, especially on crude oil sales that generate over 70 per cent of revenue for the nation. In response to an alleged publication of non-remittance of fund into the Federation Account, the Corporation […]