ENVIRONMENTAL pressure groups in the country have called on the Federal Government not to go ahead and sign agreement with Jindal Power and Steel, India to revitalise coal mining in the country.

The Mile-Two bound commuter bus was moving smoothly this Monday afternoon, so smooth in fact, that commuters were a bit apprehensive at what awaits them ahead.
”I can’t believe this is Monday,” declared Ife.

The Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, would eventually make corruption in Nigeria a thing of the past if generally embraced in strict compliance with its establishing legal provisions, Managing Director of Premium Pension Limited, Mr. Wilson Ideva, has said.

The Federal Government has developed a 30 year Infrastructure Master Plan with a projected investment outlay of $2.9 trillion.

APPREHENSION over the possibility of the Federal government achieving its target of a five-fold increase in broadband penetration by 2018 was cleared last week in Lagos by the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson while answering questions bordering on realizing broadband penetration in the country.

He deserved it. The award is legendary because there are some awards in Nigeria that are politically-motivated or economically induced. But the awards given to Dr. Uduaghan by Vanguard Newspapers, as well as Aliko Dangote and Innocent Chukwuma (Innoson) are different. These are people with their own strong pedigree in the fields that they have chosen.

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State, has identified the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, as one of the component channels, if properly deployed, capable of boosting the economy of the state, especially in revenue generation.

A stalwart of Peoples Democratic Party in Sapele, Delta State, Mr. Esimaje Besidone, has called on the people of Delta North senatorial district to avoid politics of acrimony and speak with one voice otherwise, they will lose the opportunity to produce the next governor of the state in 2015

DESPITE being regarded as an important tool for economic growth, Nigerian highways are dreaded by both the low and mighty. Their death-trap conditions are enough to make people avoid using them, yet they are rarely avoided particularly by the commoners, who ply them daily to various parts of the country.

Delta State Government has assured citizens of the state that full and thorough investigation will be carried out on the alleged assassination of two lawyers in Warri on Thursday, last week.

Kelechi Iheanacho and Chidiebere Nwakali will join the Flying Eagles on Wednesday, April 9, after playing a game for the Manchester City youth team.

Residents and owners of property in Molojo Quarters, Odoragunshin, Eredo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, have asked a Lagos High Court to restrain the Lagos State governor and the state’s Attorney General from further trespass on their property.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has kicked against the N750 monthly fixed charge collected by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, from its customers in the state, saying it amounts to extortion and exploitation of electricity consumers in the state.

Continental Alarm Limited said its Videofied Optical Smoke Detector will make insurance companies in Nigeria stop groaning under the high claims paid out to fire and allied claims.

LAGOS—An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC witness, Mrs. Oghara Eburu, yesterday, told Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of an Ikeja High Court that the signature of an oil marketer, Ifeanyi Anosike, was forged by one of his co-defendants to allegedly perpetrate N1.5 billion subsidy fraud.