The Managing Director of Ethylene Product and Lubricant Limited, Jay Keswani, was yesterday, arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, presided over by Magistrate B. Osunsanmi, over alleged assault on one Faith Nwaneri, by hitting her face and inflicting injury on her left eye.

NIGER Delta Security Watch Organisation, NDSWO and Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, said yesterday, that there was nothing to settle between the Pan-Niger Delta Consultative Forum steered in the interim by Chief Edwin Clark and Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, who is leading a factional group.

VARIOUS calls by the Government on the need for Nigerian youths to take to agriculture might go unheeded if the necessary information on how to access land and finance are not readily available. This was the position of the Assistant Pastor in charge of Lagos Province 48 of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor […]

TELECOMMUNICATIONS operators have been urged to help improve on the quality of service and safeguard the environment, by following the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standards.

Facebook has added three new languages; Corsican, Fulah and Maltese to bring to one hundred and one, the number of languages on its platform. Facebook is now available in 101 languages even as more than one billion people use Facebook in a language other than English.

FOOD and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva has said that declining prices could thwart international efforts to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty unless steps are taken to guarantee decent incomes and livelihoods for small-scale producers.

The ECOWAS has set up a working group to develop modalities to address clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the sub-region. Mr Marcel de Souza said this when he was presenting the Community Status Report at the ongoing Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja on Tuesday.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday called for stronger global alliance in intelligence and information sharing to halt the scourge of terrorism across the world.

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mr Marcel de Souza says the recession being experienced in Nigeria has a negative impact on the sub-region’s overall economic performance. De Souza said this while presenting the Community Status Report at the ongoing Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja on Tuesday.

By Chinedu Adonu ENUGU—ENUGU State House of Assembly  Tuesday  set up a seven-man committee to ascertain the buildings built within or near the waterways in Enugu metropolis with a view to finding out which buildings that would be demolished. The seven-man committee to be headed by Hon. Obinna Okenwa, member representing Enugu South Urban, is […]

Bishops of the Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Anglican Communion, have called on Imo State Government to “immediately halt any plan to allocate grazing fields to nomadic people.”

AHMADU Bello University, ABU, Zaria, has launched online distance learning for Masters in Business Administration, MBA, which affords students anywhere in the world the opportunity to receive lectures via customised tablets or Dual Universal Serial Bus, USB, sticks on smart phones or personal computers.

FOLLOWING the inability of Benue State government to conduct local government elections due to paucity of funds, the State House of Assembly, Tuesday, passed into law the Local Government Administration Amendment Bill, 2016, permitting the governor to appoint sole administrators for the 23 councils in the state.

A group, Gombe Patriots for Development, has called on the government of Gombe State to pay contractors who have handled jobs for the state.

KOGI State House of Assembly, yesterday, suspended the administrator of Ijumu Local Government Council, who doubled as the state Chairman of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, Taofiq Isah, along with four other administrators over financial recklessness.