NNPC depot CSO hired us  to vandalise pipelines – Suspects

NNPC depot CSO hired us to vandalise pipelines – Suspects

“We are not vandals. I have never been to the creeks before. This is the second time I am joining them for such surveillance. It was Semiu that invited me the first time. Semiu works for the CSO. He only contracted us to work for him . He has not even paid us . It was only Semiu that was armed. The rest of us were just with torch-lights”.
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Pope’s Jubilee year off to a sluggish start

Pope’s Jubilee year off to a sluggish start

Pope Francis’s Jubilee Year of Mercy has got off to a sluggish start, to the disappointment of Rome’s hoteliers, restaurateurs and souvenir sellers. Far from being flooded with pilgrims, as the Italian authorities had anticipated, the streets around St Peter’s basilica have been eerily quiet over the end-of-year holiday season, following attacks in France in […]

New Year message: I know Nigerians are in pains — Buhari

New Year message: I know Nigerians are in pains — Buhari

Taking note of the hard times in the land, President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said becoming president had not removed him from the pains of the people, promising that 2016 would be the beginning of the change in the country.

Lagos Assembly approves N662.588bn 2016 budget

Lagos Assembly approves N662.588bn 2016 budget

The Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday passed into law the N662.588 billion Year 2016 Appropriation Bill presented by the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on December 17, 2015.

Nigerian athletics faces bleak 2017

Nigerian athletics faces bleak 2017

Unless there is a direct intervention by the government and concerned individuals, Nigerian athletics will come to a standstill in the new season.

BUHARI: It pays to persist

BUHARI: It pays to persist

IF the policy of one couple, four children that General Ibrahim Babangida lamely tried to introduce (and became the first to violate) in the late 1980’s to tackle population explosion were operational in Nigeria back in 1942, Muhammadu Buhari, son of Zulaihat and Adamu, would not have been born.

2016, year of new beginnings —Sylva

2016, year of new beginnings —Sylva

The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Bayelsa State and former governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, has told Bayelsa people and Nigerians generally, to see the New Year as an opportunity to make a new start in their individual and collective quests for development.

Niger budgets N74.7bn for 2016

Niger budgets N74.7bn for 2016

Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has presented a budget proposal of N74.7 billion to the state House of Assembly for consideration for the 2016 fiscal year.

JONATHAN: Drawing strength from weakness

JONATHAN: Drawing strength from weakness

2015 Doomsday scenario: The Niger Bridge at Onitsha has been bombed. Igbo are being slaughtered in some states of the North. The militants have taken over 10 oil platforms at the last count and Nigeria is now only able to produce about 250,000 barrels of crude per day.