SEVENTY-TWO hours after Jos, the Plateau State capital, experienced twin blasts which left about 100 dead and several injured persons still lying critically ill in hospitals, another explosion occurred at the Bauchi road axis of the town at about 9pm on Saturday. This time, the target was a viewing centre where about 300 youths were watching the European Champions League final.

The Super Eagles are taking nothing to chance as preparations effectively commenced yesterday night in London with the team’s first training session ahead of the World Cup in Brazil next month. The team tackle Scotland’s Tartan Army at Fulham’s Craven Cottage tomorrow.

BY ChijiokeNwaozuzu Thekey to extensive international trade in natural gas lies in developing a global integrated/substantial pipeline grid, and increasing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) fleet, where navigable water access is available. Integrated pipeline facilities do not presently exist in much of the world, but are being built rapidly. By 1991, international gas trade was focused […]

ADO-EKITI literary stood still for several hours last Wednesday for Governor Kayode Fayemi and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Nigeria and other African oil producing countries which depend on the United States market for export may have to diversify their economy, and look toward other countries to sell their oil, as the U.S import of crude from Africa declines by 90 percent.

Hon Matthew Iduoriyekemwen is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo state and former state Representative on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

The PDP leader who is one of those eyeing Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s seat in 2016, spoke to Vanguard last Tuesday, after some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state dumped the party for the PDP. He reacted to their defection and asserted that no amount of terrorist activity will stop Jonathan’s re-election.

Team Nigeria continued from where it stopped on Sunday winning four more gold medals and another bronze medal to make it (9) gold and two (2) bronze medals.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, has stressed that informal sector would not be properly harnessed if not captured in the real economy. He therefore, called on tradesmen and artisans to formalise their businesses with a view to moving to the real economy.

‘He reported afterwards that the group of girls he saw were alive and well, and being adequately fed and sheltered. They told him all they wanted was to go home.’ Salkida’s mission was complicated by the chaos surrounding the Nigerian government’s pronouncements about negotiations with the terrorist group.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has called on leaders to distinguish between politics and governance, attributing their inability to do so as the bane of progress in Africa.

IN the late 1980s, I was appointed Special Adviser to Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, then Nigeria’s Minister of External Affairs. At the time, I was a Research Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA). The Director-General of the Institute, Professor Gabriel Olusanya, advised me not to take the job.

THE proposed multi billion Naira Heartland Gateway International Market to be sited on 28.097 hectares parcel of land at Mgbidi in the Oru West Local Government Area of Imo State, has received the endorsement of the Lagos State chapters of Ohaneze Ndigbo and Imo State Towns Development Association, ISTDAL.

A RESEARCH study on job creation and employment in Nigeria conducted by Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa, CSEA and Nextier, has shown that unemployment challenges facing the African continent, especially Nigeria, has remained high, in spite of the significant progress made in achieving robust economic growth in the last decade.

BY EMEKA AGINAM Participants at the just concluded Digital Africa Conference and Exhibition held in Lagos last week called on African governments to show greater commitment to the establishment of ICT parks, incubation centres, as well as frameworks and policies for seamless broadband connectivity. The forum which brought together highly cerebral ICT practitioners, stakeholders, regulatory […]

AHEAD of 2015 Presidential election, strong indications have emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan was at the moment under pressure to drop Vice President Namadi Sambo and replace him with Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido as his running mate for the election.