A media expert and the Managing Director of the Audvideo Ltd, Mr Onochie Amasiani, has said that Nigeria needs people with requisite knowledge and standard equipment to succeed in the digitization process of the broadcast industry.

ABUJA — THE Federal Government, yesterday, unveiled 2016 budget proposal of N6 trillion, allocating 30 per cent of the budget to capital expenditure.

Sustained shortages of US Dollar has forced Nigeria’s external reserves into a massive decline hitting a new low of USD29.746 billion yesterday while Naira value deteriorated in the unofficial foreign exchange market.

ABUJA— The fuel crisis took a dramatic turn for the worse, yesterday, as massive queues were seen in almost all the petrol stations selling the products in Abuja.

FOR residents of Okobaba sawmill community in Ebute Metta of Lagos the fire incident that wreaked havoc in the area on November still remains a bitter pill for them to swallow.

Lafarge Africa Plc, manufacturers of Elephant Cement last week, commissioned a prototype Studio Apartment constructed within 12 days using its novel mass housing production technology said to be capable of delivering no fewer than 500 housing units in a year. The technology which is typically concrete-based, is said to be cheap and affordable.

ABUJA— Following the conclusion of the governorship election in Kogi State, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has explained why it could not declare any other person other than Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress, APC as the duly elected governor of the state.

WORRIED by their destructive tendencies across the state, some communities in Isoko North and Ndokwa East Local Government Areas, Delta State, have barred Fulani herdsmen from bringing their herds to graze in their domains.

The Federal Government has been urged to enact a compulsory power policy that will compel the deployment of solar energy system in private homes as a remedy for power generation and supply shortages in the country

It was a moment of joy yesterday for the Chairman of the Committee on Aids, Loans & Debt Management of the House of Representatives, Hon. Adeyinka Ajayi, representing Boripe, Ifelodun & Odo-Otin Federal Constituency in Osun State as he floored his main rival, Mr. Kayode Oduoye, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,) at the Court of Appeal sitting in Akure.

Regarded as the People’s Car, Kia Rio, one of the locally assembled cars by Kia Motors Nigeria has truly lived up to its name as it emerged winner of the Car of the Year (COTY) Award at the 2015 edition of the annual Nigerian Auto Journalists Award,(NAJA).

To ensure accountability, the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS has called for the setting up of a central body of professionals to monitor and make those in government accountable. The body would be expected to develop frameworks that will make government more accountable to the populace.

It will take some time for those Douglas Anele fondly refers to as Buharimaniacs to realize that, in a democracy, there is nothing definitive about the outcome of an election. When an election has been concluded, those who opposed the winner are not required to shut up or go into exile.

Chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, Kogi State Chapter, Simeon Ojonuba, has called on the judiciary to use the Kogi political impasse to deepen democracy in Nigeria.

LIKE everything in life, democracy has its downside, good and cherished as it produces the process that plays the midwife to a government that represents the will of the electorate. I stress the notion of process, for we oftentimes dwell on the outcome (the President, Senator, member of the House of Representatives, Mayor, etc.), not paying adequate attention to the fact that what matters in “democracy” in these examples is actually the process that confers some legitimacy on them as symbols and occupants of power and authority.