Sheriff not in support of PDP’s rejection of Edo election result
Edo election: Benin Disputed National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, said he did not support Thursday’s rejection of the yet-to-be-declared result of Wednesday’s governorship election in Edo. He said that the rejection of the result ahead of its declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was preemptive. PDP in […]
ATIKU TO OYEGUN: You can’t break rules without creating problems
Former Vice President and a leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, waded into the altercation between the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and another leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
NPFL: League winner to pocket N40m
Champions of the 2015/16 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season stand to win N40m from the Merit Award of the League Management Company (LMC).
Federation Cup: FC IfeanyiUbah for final
FC IfeanyiUbah will play in the final of this year’s Nigeria Federation Cup after they went past giant killers Crown FC 2-1 in Kaduna Wednesday.
Osinbajo, Aregbesola, others eulogise Ladi Soyode at book launch
What Ladi has done today shows that there is a way for Nigeria to go, by writing literature, he has demonstrated that there is hope for Nigeria
EPZ project can stop militancy, reunite Ijaw, Itsekiri – Bebenimibo
A member of the $16 billion private-driven Export Processing Zone, EPZ, project, Warri South West Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Paul Bebenimibo, yesterday, said that the project will employ about 150,000 men and women at the construction stage and over 5,000 workers when completed, and same is capable of stopping militancy in the Niger Delta region.
BoI, UNDP sign $2m pact on solar power to Nigerian communities
The Bank of Industry, BoI, has signed a $2 million agreement with the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, to provide solar-powered electricity to no fewer than six communities in six states of the federation.
Residents of Amaechi‘ s hometown flays activities of Fulani herdsmen
Ubima community, hometown of the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi in Rivers State has decried the activities of Fulani herdsmen in the area, saying that the herdsmen were destroying their farmlands with their cows.
NNPC raises petrol storage capacity by 87.7m litres
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, increased Nigeria’s petroleum products storage capacity by 87.70 million litres, with the re-commissioning of four products tanks at the Mosimi depot in Ogun State.
Agip pipeline explosion: House of Reps fact-finding committee visits Bayelsa
THE House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee on Niger Delta and Joint Task Military Force, JTF, has visited Bayelsa State to investigate the cause of last year’s Agip pipeline explosion at Azuzuama in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state in which 14 lives were lost.
Ola’s creative documentation on developing Africa through entrepreneurship manual out
The book examines the basics of entrepreneurial development and relevance in the much desired development of the continent
