MINISTER of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has said the Federal Government is searching for ways to encourage the establishment of a National Shipping Line to ensure maximum exploitation of the potential in the maritime industry.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has petitioned the police to unravel the origin of presidential campaign posters depicting him and Governor Rochas Okorocha as teaming together for the 2019 presidential election.

GOVERNORSHIP aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Gen.Charles Airhiavbere, (retd) yesterday said he had no regret dragging Governor Adams Oshiomhole to the Tribunal when he ran against him as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2012.

TROOPS deployed to quell attacks on oil installations by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, in the oil producing communities of the Niger Delta region have been urged to display the highest sense of professionalism in the execution of their assignments to fish out those responsible for the destruction.

THE Delta State House of Assembly has passed a vote of confidence in Senator Ifeanyi Okowa for his leadership qualities and for proper management of the affairs of the state since he assumed office a year ago.

The Urhobo Mandate and Equity Forum, UMEF, has said the Federal University of Petroleum Resources FUPRE is sited in Ugbomro, and not Effurun, as is being erroneously portrayed.

Farmlands in five communities in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State were yesterday reportedly submerged by flood.

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor To some, he is Nigeria’s version of Donald Trump, a rich man using his wealth to achieve political ends. To others, he is a Mother Theresa, identifying with the poor through his periodic gesture of rice to the downtrodden. Whatever depiction, lawyer, educationist, philanthropist turned politician, Kenneth Imansuagbon is unbending […]

EDO State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, accused Governor Adams Oshiomhole and some of his political appointees of violating the State Procurement Law by releasing 75 per cent as mobilization fee to contracting firms executing projects at the Edo University, Iyamho as against the 25 per cent stipulated by the law.

University of Benin, UNIBEN has developed indigenous software for the conduct of its Computer Based Testing, CBT for all examinations in the university. Explaining the effort of the institution on ICT, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. F.F.O. Orumwense said ‘’The software for CBT was indigenously developed by the University of Benin ICT Unit, making the university the first University in Nigeria to develop and use it to conduct the examinations.’’

The Lagos State government has disclosed that its N113.3bn education budget (representing 27.11% of the state’s budget) is about one-third of the N369bn budgeted by the Federal Government for the entire country; just as it assured of its commitment to the implementation of the one meal a day programme. This wàs revealed by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at the grand finale of activities to mark this year’s Children’s Day celebration and to commemorate his one year in office, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

A better way to answer the question of whether this administration is following the rule of law is to begin by examining what law itself is. Law is a collection of rules, guidelines and directives adopted to regulate human conduct. We adopted law in order to abolish anarchy, confusion and chaos, as properly captured by Thomas Hobbes. With law therefore it becomes easy to predict human conduct and not to be governed whimsically, arbitrarily, capriciously or according to the dictates of whosoever is in authority for the time being.

The Oxford and Cambridge Club of Nigeria is a non-profit and non-political organisation. The objectives are to provide a forum for individuals who are alumni of the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge, each in the United Kingdom, to interact and to promote social unity among alumni of these two institutions residing in Nigeria. Aside this, we also sponsor lectures, talks or seminars and organise other projects consistent with the objectives or otherwise calculated to assist or enhance the education of any person in or from Nigeria.

When news broke out late last week that President Muhammadu Buhari had allegedly placed travel bans on two governors of the opposition party, PDP, in the persons of governors Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, an already unsettled nation became even more distressed.

AKWA Ibom state has won the South South zone of the 2016 quiz competition organized by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for the second time in a row