IN its determined effort to improve literacy and book trade in Nigeria by bringing books and other instructional materials closer to the people, the board of trustees and management of the Nigeria International Book Fair trust, the organisers of the greatest book fair in the country has concluded all necessary arrangement for 14th edition of The Nigeria International Book Fair (NIBF 2015).

Nigeria’s president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari on Thursday reechoed that the high level of indiscipline and corruption in government and other social places were the main reasons why he has pledged to fight corruption, insecurity and unemployment head on when sworn in as president.

President Goodluck Jonathan inspected the ongoing construction of the National Railway Terminal at Idu and the Abuja light rail transit system. Below are some of the images from the inspection, according to the his spokesperson, Reuben Abati via his twitter handle.

The standard of living of most writers in Nigeria has long been nothing to write home about. A whole lot of issues ranging from discouragement from publishers, poor reading culture of the people which makes sales of published works, almost impossible, and most recently, advent of the social media, etc, have been viewed as bane of the literary industry.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its downstream subsidiary, the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), said they had 1.2 billion litres of petrol in stock.