The National Planning Commission (NPC) yesterday formally inaugurated a Joint Planning Committee (JPC) for the 2015 Nigerian Economic Summit (NES#21).

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday identified human capital development, political stability and economic integration as central to the rapid development of Africa and the emancipation of its people from poverty.

Budding Yoruba actress and marketing graduate of Lagos State University, Empress Anu Sosanya is beautiful, talented and daring. Ask her to describe herself, she would tell you she’s a very simple person, who can be very blunt.

Stakeholders in the oil and gas sector on Monday lauded Federal Government’s initiative in appointing a private sector-based knowledge to drive the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) operations.

A man who was granted bail to get married was re-arrested by Australian police on Tuesday, a week after he jilted his new wife and went on the run.

President Muhammadu Buhari has just appointed Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu to take over from Dr. Joseph Dawha as the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said one of the problems facing Nigeria is lack of continuity.

The Prosecutor, Sgt. Olufemi Omilana, said James jumped the perimeter fence into a building belonging to a sitting Judge (name withheld) in Oyo state in an attempt to steal. The accused, alleged to be a vigilante in the area, was accosted by one Mr Sunday Ojedele, the internal security of the house on the fateful day.

There was a mild drama yesterday, at the Lagos office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as members of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO)‎, stormed the anti-corruption agency’s office to protest the alleged financial impropriety and abuse of office by Rector, Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, Lagos, Dr. Margaret Ladipo.

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has described Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as “a worthy ambassador” of the nation’s “Progressives” community.

Youths, numbering hundreds Tuesday, stormed Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja to protest planned prosecution of Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN over the collapse of their six-storey building on September 12, 2014.

-To save lake Chad from drying up, President Mohammadu Buhari has directed the Ministry of Environment to revert to the 1920 report.

The new NCC chief executive’s other academic qualifications include a Bachelors Degree in Electronic Engineering and
Telecommunications, as well as a Masters Degree in the same field. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and had meritorious career in which he rose to become Professor of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at Bayero University, Kano.

When Nollywood upcoming actress, Hannah Ogundare is in her element, she plays hardly with any rules. Tall, beautiful and sexy the actress has got the goods not only to play with sensibility of her fans but also to knock them out as she recently did in a photo shoot that sent the internet into an uproar.

The statement noted that Kachikwu, who was the Executive Vice Chairman and General Counsel of Exxon-Mobil (Africa), was to take over from Dr Joseph Dawha. Kachikwu hails from Onicha-Ugbo in Delta State. The statement also quoted the credentials of Kachikwu as being a First Class Graduate of Law from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the Nigerian Law School.