ABEOKUTA — Residents of about 33 villages in Ijoko, Ado‑Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State have reportedly fled their houses following an invasion by gunmen believed to be land speculators.

WARRI—SPECIAL Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs and Chairman Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has described Federal Government’s location of the Marine University and Shipyard/Dockyard in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Delta State, as a product of the Niger Delta struggle.

TOWARDS mitigating the dearth of blood for patients requiring urgent transfusion in hospitals, a Non-Governmental Organisation, Sant Nirankari Mission, in conjunction with the Red Cross Society of Nigeria, recently held its Annual Blood Donation Camp in Lagos

COUNCIL for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria COREN, has appealed to the National Youth Service Corps NYSC, to post graduate engineers to engineering firms for them to get practical knowledge of engineering work.

The Lagos State Government last week, threatened to sanction places of worship for allegedly disturbing public peace with noise from their loud speakers.

Rather than recourse to litigation in the recovery of premises with the attendant waste of time and resources as well as the deep scar it leaves on the litigants at the end, estate surveyors and valuers and their colleagues in the legal profession have called for the use of mediation as an alternative means of resolving tenancy related disputes.

A university don and senior director with the United Nations Human Settlement Programme, UN-Habitat, Prof. Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka has called for a return to the path of sustainable development which he said would guarantees improvements in the quality of life for all Nigerians

ANAMBRA State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has ordered immediate removal of vehicles from all roads in the urban centres and removal of political billboards in a move aimed at restoring sanity in the state.

Distraught and traumatized parents of the female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State abducted one month ago by Boko Haram terrorists, yesterday, reacted to the video of some of the abducted girls released by Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau expressing doubts over the authenticity of the video. However, some claimed that the video gave them hope that their daughters were still alive.

Hyundai Motors Nigeria last week commissioned an ultramodern 3s (service, sales and spare-parts) facility and skill acquisition centre valued at more than N500m in the Orile neighborhood of Amuwo – Odofin district in Lagos State.

BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN—MEMBERS of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, Electricity Sector, have given a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government and the Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Limited, NELCOM, to pay their pension arrears and other outstanding allowances or face street protests by the workers. They cliamed that no fewer than 5,000 of their […]

As the six months employment contracts offered employees of defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, expired, the management of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, has re-engaged 2,265 workers to reposition and strengthen the operational needs of the company.

In an era where foreign direct investment in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector has not been forthcoming, Anglo-Dutch Shell has started contract award process for the construction of Floating Production Storage and Offloading, FPSO for its $12billion Bonga South West Aparo development.

The Federal Government said the Japan International Corporation Agency, JICA, has made positive contributions to the development of the nation’s power sector

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, stopped the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, from investigating suspended governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Malam Lamido Sanusi, over allegation of financial recklessness.