NNSG to Buhari: Implement confab resolutions now to end nat’l drift
The Nigerian National Summit Group (NNSG) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to implement fundamental resolutions of the 2014 National Conference that were adopted by the delegates, as a way of restructuring the country to avert the imminent national drift towards “madness.” In a statement signed yesterday by its Executive Secretary, Tony Uranta, the group said […]
New enhanced design of Lagos-Ibadan express road ready
The tempo of construction works on the Lagos-Ibadan express road is soon to increase with the completion of the “new enhanced design” of the road and re-dedication of all stakeholders to its completion on schedule.
Delta Tribunal: Okowa, Emerhor to know fate today
THE Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Asaba, will today deliver judgment on the petition by Olorogun O’tegha Emerhor, challenging the declaration of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa as the winner of the 2015 governorship poll in the state, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
NITEL rehabilitation to gulp $1.2bn
THE new owners of the national telecom carrier, NITEL, has revealed plans to pump over $1.2 billion in rehabilitating the moribund first national operator.The sum, according to the company, would be spread across different operations like fixed, mobile networks, Sat3 and other services.
Intellectual nomadism
WHENEVER I go to Rwanda, I visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial. A monument to the bestial level, human beings can descend, and a reminder that we must do everything possible to ensure that the massacre of over 850,000 people in 1994 in a hate rage, is never repeated.
Obasanjo recounts burst tyre experience
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, recounted how his vehicle had a burst tyre along the Ibadan-Lagos Expressway, saying he is hale and hearty.
