When President Goodluck Jonathan agreed for Nigeria to hold a national dialogue on the way forward, many saw it as an avenue to put right what is wrong among the federating units.

The Federal Government, yesterday, admitted that the privatisation exercise of the Nigerian power sector was flawed and that it had set up a committee to address the challenges and drawbacks recorded in the exercise.

Dangote Cement Plc has decried the high cost of production, which it explained has resulted to the rise in the price of cement in the country, even as it rewarded shareholders with a dividend of N7.00 per share for the financial year ended December 31, 2013.

Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), Alhaji Kabir Mashi, has said that the service recorded a shortfall of N140 billion in revenue collection in the first quarter of the year.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, weekend, called on the Federal Government to involve the local people, set up network centres and rapid response camps, especially in crowded and vulnerable areas, to stem the increasing attacks on Nigerians by insurgents.

The Federal Government is set to employ the use of biometric technology to tackle house racketeering, whereby the rich and influential buy up houses built by government and re-sell at exorbitant prices to the less privileged.

A 65- year-old man (names withheld) in Kalabari Beach in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, weekend, narrowly escaped lynching by angry youths for impregnating his 17-year-old daughter.

THE Ogun State Police Command said, weekend, that it would probe some local government officials in Yewa South Local Government Area over the burning of a building suspected to be a ritualist den.

Osun state chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC and its main challenger in the August 9 governorship election in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday differed on the alleged plan to unleash terror in some parts of the state ahead of the election.

LAGOS—Justice Doris Okuwobi of an Ikeja High court has awarded a N10 million damages against Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, LASTMA, and its official, Mr Aidelebe Sunday for causing bodily injury to a student, Samson Dibie in 2011.

A High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, has sentenced a member of a vigilante group and a welder to death by hanging for robbery and raping a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member.

Twice in four weeks I have had to write on the women game in Nigeria. The last time, I remembered how I was there to cover the first ever Women World Cup in China over 23 years ago and how the game held great promises for Nigeria.

By ABDULWAHAB ABDULAH, UDUMA KALU, with agency report Boko Haram insurgents have turned the abducted Chibok schoolgirls into sex slaves, raping them 15 times a day, one of the victims that escaped has said. In an interview published in the UK newspaper, Mirror on Saturday, the girl said she was prized as a terror leader’s […]

A financial consultant, Dr. Biodun Adedipe of B. Adedipe Associates Limited has said that the current single digit inflation which hovered between 8.0 percent and 7.8 percent in the first quarter of 2014 is not sustainable because of the expected increased spending that will be occasioned by the 2015 general elections.

The PDP candidate who had a cantankerous relationship with the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti when he was governor of the state has asked for forgiveness saying that he is now a better man.