Despite the significant successes in alternative fuels, the use of fossil fuel or hydrocarbons will remain dominant until at least 2040, America’s oil giant, ExxonMobil has predicted.

All Progressives Congress, APC, has said it would vehemently oppose the choice of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose as Deputy Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF.

Four models from Kia Motors America (KMA) were recognized as segment winners of the 2015 AutoPacific Vehicle Satisfaction Awards (VSA), including the Quoris luxury sedan, which ranked at the top of the Luxury Car category and won AutoPacific’s coveted President’s Award, given to the vehicle that achieves the highest-ever overall VSA score.

BARELY three weeks after a three-man masquerade gang was arrested for allegedly stabbing an Anglican priest in Enugu, police have again nabbed another suspect, who procured a gun for another masquerade parade in the state.

The Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO is calling for a $20 million intervention fund for prevention and response activities as it fears the highly virulent avian flu virus H5N1 could spread across West Africa and beyond.

National U-23 team coach, Samson Siasia has expressed confidence that his team will complete their mission of beating Congo in front of their fans in the return leg at the Pointe Noire.

The Managing Director of Admiralty Motors Ltd, an upcoming automobile marketing company with head office in Lekki, Lagos, Mary-Ann Chukwueke, has described the company as an automobile dealership of choice for many Nigerians, given their quality of service and products.

I see Lagos State, the Centre of Excellence and commercial nerve centre of Nigeria as mostly a rural area”. You may find it difficult to fathom this assertion, but it was made by a respected land professional – the new Chairman of the Lagos State branch of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, NIESV, Offiong Samuel Ukpong.

The bodies of two female victims, who were involved in a boat mishap in the creeks in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State, are yet to be recovered.

IS the construction of a second bridge across the River Niger at Onitsha jinked? For how long will the Federal Government and other stakeholders continue to play politics with this all-important bridge considering the fact that the old bridge built over 50 years ago is now in a distressed condition? These posers were raised by distraught Nigerians who reacted to the alleged abandonment of work on the bridge by the contractors.

Rivers state governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has declared the readiness of his administration to host more international football matches as part of efforts to promote sports and also to prove that the state is safe for everybody.

THE situation of our country today, the condition of the president and the intervening variables in the form of our political actors demand that we help President Muhammadu Buhari, if he is to succeed. Whatever we have done with our past are building blocks and serve as direction to the way forward.

SENATOR representing
Kano North Senatorial District, Barau Jibrin has faulted Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu over his remark that the National Assembly was not a party secretariat when All Progressive Congress, APC insisted that its supremacy and wishes in the matter of who occupied leadership position must be respected.
In an open letter to both Senators Ekweremadu and Muhammed Danjuma Goje, in Kano yesterday, Jibrin who is a former Chairman, Appropriation Committee, House of Representatives accused the group loyal to the senate president, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ekweremadu of allegedly turning upside down “the time-tested values of democracy and leadership they had professed publicly and privately”.
He recalled in the Open Letter, how Senator Ekweremadu in a paper titled “Leadership in the National Assembly” he presented in Abuja at the Induction Certificate Course on Legislative Studies for the 8th National Assembly held on April 27th 2015 had espoused party supremacy particularly as it affects the appointment of the principal officers of the senate.
According to the lawmaker, it is not only the flouting of the rules concerning the party’s latitude to present the leadership of its senate caucus that Senator Ekweremadu has provided support for but he has also provided support to Senator Saraki to flout the ranking rule in the legislature unlike what he explained at the same public gathering.

LOKOJA—The World Bank has attributed Nigeria’s stunt economic growth to the high rate of unemployment that has bedevilled the country.

A DECADES-long friend in Lagos was furious when President Buhari’s visit to the United States popped up in our discussion. She was too peeved to see any positive thing about the state visit.