THE Senate was, yesterday, told by the Islamic Development Bank , IDB, that Nigeria was spending 80 percent of its total revenues to service debts.

Uneasy calm now reigns in Orlu as the whereabouts of a prominent medical doctor in Orlu, Dr. C. I. C. Ogbuokiri, and his wife, Theresa, remains unknown since the duo were abducted by kidnappers in the town.

Perhaps, for the first time since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed power nine months ago, a senior official of the Federal Government has come out to promise action against the threat posed by the so-called “Fulani herdsmen”, who have been invading farmlands and creating sorrows in their host communities. According to the Minister of the Interior, […]

NIGERIAN Information, IT, practitioners have carpeted the Senate over its recommendation for the termination of Treasury Single Account, TSA contract, saying it will kill local efforts and capacity.

Irked by the increase in unemployment rate and consequently inbreed of youth restiveness, Forum of South-South Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (FOSSCIMA) has concluded plans to train and capture over 50,000 unemployed youths in the South-South zone of the country for empowerment programme.

A traditional ruler in Osun State, Oluiwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi has urged President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government to encourage locally made products for export in order to insulate the nation’s economy against the present economic realities.

HOST communities to Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, in Oil Mining Lease, OML 30, Delta State, have issued a 30-day ultimatum to the company to meet their demands or risk the withdrawal of their workers from the company’s flow stations in their domains.

LAGOS — NATIONAL Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE; Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, have threatened to shut down Egbin power station and other power plants across the country following last Friday’s sack of 400 members of NUEE, including its deputy president by management of Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, IKEDC.

The family of late Chief Umukoro Oghenemowho, popularly called Chief Mukoro Mowoe, has raised alarm over what it described as forceful and unlawful seizing of its over five acres of land, situate at the Sapele toll gate, which is part of an expanse of land measuring 50.952 hectares, called Okufuoma, in Okirighwre-Sapele, Delta State.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday postponed indefinitely the Anambra Central senatorial re-run election scheduled for Saturday, March 5, 2016.