Indigenes of Ika and Aniocha nations numbering over 500, barricaded the entrance to the Delta State House of Assembly complex in protest against the alleged oil exploration in their area by Pan Ocean Oil Corporation and Chorus/Swift Energy Limited without signing a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the communities.

ABUJA — The Federal Government stated, yesterday, that the country no longer has the resources to fund the oil and gas industry, and is therefore, considering and developing new models of financing the industry in the days ahead.

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu Nnewi —Former President General, Onitsha Markets Amalgamated Traders Association, OMATA, Chief Pius Anaekwe has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, government in the country of bringing back dictatorship to Nigeria’s politics, urging Nigerians to be at alert. Addressing newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra State, yesterday, Chief Anaekwe accused the APC government of thriving […]

THERE is an enormous disequilibrium between graduates churned out by most Nigerian tertiary institutions and skills required by employers, and this margin accounts for why half of the nation’s graduates cannot be employed. This was the assertion of the CEO of Poise Graduate Finishing Academy, PGFA, Mrs Ukinebo Dare, who further argued that the current curriculum used in Nigerian higher institutions of learning does not reflect the realities of time.

FOR Governor David Umahi it has been three contests and three victories against his opponents in the battle for the Ebonyi State Government House.

MAJOR political stakeholders from the three senatorial zones of Abia State, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to approve the reappointment of Senator Chris Adighije as the state’s representative at the Revenue Mobilization and Fiscal Allocation Committee, RMFAC, noting that he brought positive changes to the state in his first tenure.

The rescheduled governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and in some units in the seven other local government areas of the state will now hold on January 9.

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, yesterday, dismissed as false, claims by some politicians in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that he had withdrawn from the suspended governorship election in the state.

Benue State government in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology and Rockefeller Foundatiion, yesterday engaged 1,000 unemployed graduates in the state in a two-day Information and Communication Technology, ICT training.

AHEAD of the 2016 governorship election in Edo State, a group, Peter Esele Solidarity Committee, PESOC 2016, has called for issue-based debates among all those aspiring to succeed Mr Adams Oshiomhole to enable the people elect the best candidate that will fly the flag of the All Progressives Congress, APC.