PORT HARCOURT—SOME Niger Delta leaders opened up, yesterday, on how the conflict between the Pan-Niger Delta Coastal Stakeholders’ Forum steered by Chief Edwin Clark and a new group of leaders also from the region, led by Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, can collaborate in the interest of the region.

UNIVERSITY of Ilorin in Kwara State, has emerged the 2016 university of first choice among student-applicants as the foremost citadel of learning in the country, followed by sixteen others drawn from the federal, state and private universities, the Economic Confidential can authoritatively report. In a new report obtained and carefully computed and analyzed by Economic […]

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State, Prince Ben Apugo, has accused the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Theodore Orji of masterminding his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

By Chioma Onuegbu UYO—A FORMER military administrator of Akwa Ibom State, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, has said that Nigeria has done reasonably well after 56 years of independence. Nkanga who spoke, yesterday, in Uyo said, “Sincerely speaking, I think Nigeria as a country has done well. You see 56 years in the life of a […]

THE Mo Ibrahim International Index for Governance in Africa has placed Nigeria 36th out of 54 African countries in the measurement of overall governance, according to the index report released in London yesterday (Monday).

WE travelled from Lagos to Onitsha by road. We thought we would get a better feel of Nigeria. Living in Lagos, we had seen the tremendous progress Lagos had made: Ogudu, Ogba, Egbe, Ikorodu, Festac, testify to the vibrancy of Lagos. On the way to Badagry nearly every acre is built up. On the way to Ikorodu the experience is the same, travelling to Ibadan from Lagos there is hardly any piece of unbuilt land between Lagos and Sagamu; the same is true on the Otta axis. But it is in Banana Island, Park View, Lekki that the development is even more outstanding.

The Ogun State government in collaboration with Nestle Waters, Nigeria, have called for greater awareness and education of Nigerians on the importance of healthy hydration and water conservation.

NATIONAL Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has called on the Federal Government to make adequate budgetary provision for salaries and other emoluments for its members next year.

lagos—TWO people, yesterday, sustained varying degrees of injuries when a shopping complex was gutted by fire at Odo-Eran in Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State.

Stakeholders in the health and judiciary sectors have called on the National Assembly to pass into law the Occupational Safety Health Bill as a means of averting occupational hazard in the country.