ABUJA— Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Mr. Ekpo Nta, has identified interference by political leaders in states in court cases being prosecuted by the commission as one of the challenges facing anti-graft agency.

WE join other concerned Nigerians to register our disappointment over the spate of inconclusive elections which have taken place under the watch of the Professor Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which some now cynically refer to as the “inconclusive” National Electoral Commission.

THERE was tension, weekend, at Ubete community in Ahoada West Local Government Area, Rivers State, as suspected cultists engaged security men in fierce gun battle.

Ahead of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, election in July, branches of the Arewa Lawyers Forum, ALF, in the North-East, weekend, in Bauchi, Bauchi State, adopted Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama, SAN, as their candidate for Presidency in the election.

Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has challenged polytechnics in the country to be agents of change in the area of economy and particularly in agriculture.

Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operator of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Two (MMA2),weekend said it is still awaiting regulatory approval from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) before commencing operations, despite obtaining authorisation from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to commence regional operations at MMA2 as set out in the concession agreement between the two.

The president of International Civil Aviation Organisation, ICAO, Dr Bernard Aliu has stressed the need for aviation agencies in the country to imbibe the culture of development of human capacity building.

This column has consistently maintained that the root cause of our economic paradox of increasing income, with unbridled rate of unemployment, and deepening poverty will be found in the conscious but incorrect adoption of a faulty and distortional process for the infusion of our crude export dollar revenue into the economy.

Nigeria’s earnings from the petroleum sector have almost been halved due to the slump in crude oil prices at the international market. Income dipped by N2.963 trillion in one year, as data released by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, revealed that Nigeria’s oil revenue depreciated by 43.6 per cent to N3.83 trillion in 2015.

Certainly the last is yet to be heard about the N2.9 billion which President Muhammadu Buhari last year released to the defunct National Sports Commission (NSC) for some sporting activities.

ABUJA — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, disclosed that a number of international oil companies, IOCs, in the upstream oil and gas sector have agreed to provide foreign exchange for oil marketing companies for the importation of premium motor spirit, also known as petrol.

Dr Braimoh Bello is a senior medical scientist/research technical leader at the Johannesburg-based Centre for Statistical Analysis and Research (CESAR). He is also an honorary lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and President of Beyond Tomorrow. Braimoh who was in Nigeria recently, spoke to Financial Vanguard on various issues and the need to pay […]

Akure—A former Commissioner for Lands and Housing in Ondo State, Alhaji Abbas Aidi, yesterday, reportedly slumped and died at a cyber cafe in Akure.

AHEAD of the September 10, 2016 governorship election in Edo State, a governorship aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has alleged that over N30 billion has so far been spent on Edo University, Iyamho, by the state government at the expense of the two other state universities that were denied government attention

NIGERIA has qualified six more wrestlers for the Rio 2016 Olympics holding later this year in Brazil at the just concluded African/Oceania Olympic qualifiers in Algeria.