ABUJA — Nine companies, yesterday, indicated their readiness to build new refineries within the existing refineries in the country.

About 3,600 litres of petroleum products were in the early hours of yesterday seized from pipeline vandals by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command attached to the Festac Division.

LAGOS— Nigeria’s labour productivity witnessed a significant drop in fourth quarter 2015 to N706.95 per worker per hour, down by about 8.0 per cent from N768.42 in third quarter.

Abuja — Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr Babachir Lawal, said, yesterday, that the N350 billion being injected by the Federal Government into the economy would be strictly monitored.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick has defended his decision to go for a foreigner as the new Super Eagles coach, insisting that no local coach can give us the desired results.

Erstwhile chairman of the Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, PDP, Delta North is also chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs. Nwaoboshi, a veteran of many political battles in his native Delta State includes among his laurels or scars, his famed fallout with Governor James Ibori in the approach to the 2007 transition when he was a leading protagonist for the shift of the governorship to Delta North. Nwaoboshi would also not be easily forgotten for his leading role in the nationally televised pitch battle for the 2011 Delta North Senate PDP ticket that saw him engage another and possibly more entrenched operator in the person of Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa. At that time, Nwaoboshi was not even an aspirant, but his trenchant position gave the impression of being an ally of Dr. Mrs. Mariam Ali, wife of a former national chairman of the PDP, Col. Ahmadu Ali, who contested the ticket with Okowa.

By Owei Lakemfa CHRISTIANS believe that  Easter Sunday is resurrection day. For them, it is an annual celebration. In Lahore, Pakistanis of all faith trooped  to a park to celebrate the day. As mainly children and women queued to buy tickets for a train ride at the park, a suicide bomber walked towards them and detonated […]

A member of the House of Representatives, Mr Philip Shaibu and notable personalities in Edo State and Afemailand, including leaders of political and youth groups, former council chairmen and past political appointees, councilors and a host of others, have reviewed those who have announced their intention to contest the governorship election in the state and have concluded that Mr. Godwin Obaseki stands out as a go-getter.

One person was shot dead in the early hours of yesterday in Buguma, headquaters of Asari Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.

THE Olu of Warri, His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, has ruled out the dissolution of Ogidigben Export Processing Zone, EPZ, Interface Committee for Ugborodo community, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State.

Decades after he rested ‘Ikebe Super’ and ‘Super story’, two household magazines in the 80s, humour merchant, Wale Adenuga has returned to publishing again as he debuts with another comic cartoon magazine titled, “Nnenna and Friends Cartoon Magazine.”

Scholars and legal experts yesterday in Lagos disagreed over the war against corruption by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The nationwide power crisis being experienced in the country worsened, yesterday, with a total system collapse at exactly 12.58p.m.

The Federal Government has nominated former Group Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mohammed Barkindo, for the position of the Secretary-General of Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, come July 2016.

MEMBERS of National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, NAAPE, an affiliate of Trade Union Congress, TUC, in Rivers State, yesterday, disrupted operations of Bristow Helicopters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as they protested what they dubbed lopsided conditions of service.