NIGERIANS may be in for a round of fuel scarcity this new year, as marketers have stopped importation of the product.

The Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, and Fiscal Strategy Paper, FSP, of the Federal Government was, yesterday, approved by the Senate with a significant mark up in the oil price benchmark to $44.5 per barrel, up 4.0 per cent from $42.5 per cent contained in the original document submitted by the Presidency.

CHRISTOPHER University has hosted the maiden edition of The Platform Nigeria’s Young Professionals Boot Camp, an initiative of the Covenant Christian Centre aimed at exposing young and talented professionals to the skills and training needed to succeed in the business world.

AFTER their burial, I did a tribute titled ‘Iyawo: Requiem for the Kuje ‘mother of two’ (Nov/3/2015) in honour of late Mrs. Adebayo (Iyawo or Mama Dolapo) who was tragically cut down along with two children in the Kuje bomb blast of October, 2 2015. I missed an opportunity last October, 2016 to do a remembrance piece on them –even though I had promised myself I would. But even as I rued that, a pleasant Facebook event happened which now requires a revisit of that tribute’: Vanguard’s Photo-Journalist Adeshida Yomi recently on his Facebook wall posted a material reminiscing on the Abuja ‘Fleet-Street’ of old –a bed-and-office media block of sixteen flats- in Area 3, and which reminiscing evoked not only fond memories of the good old cob reporting days in the nation’s capital, but also brought sad recollections of the tragic and the not so tragic fates of some fringe, non-journalist personalities that made life tick at that famed hub of Abuja Correspondents –Fleet-Street- where no journalist was worth the name unless he lived at or daily came to pick his bearing.

BRASS FERTILISER & Petrochemical Company Limited (BFPCL), says its $6 billion methanol plant has capacity to create 20,000 jobs in the host community. The Brass Fertiliser plant is located in Brass Island, Bayelsa State.

IF it is true that morning shows the day, it is also true that our approach to governance must be a strong determinant of what we get out of government. There can be no better time than now for proper introspection with a view to moving forward.

GENEVA-based IndustriALL Global Union has decried the upsurge of unfair labour practices by International Oil Companies, IOCs, against Nigerian workers, even as it commended National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG and its Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, counterpart for standing against the practices

Not everyone follows through with their new year resolutions. However, a look at the big tech companies will reveal that some of them are taking no prisoners in 2017. Google, for example is already making big changes to secure an even bigger slice of the tech-market in this New Year. Google owned YouTube, Android and even Google Drive now have new features.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,Wednesday, dismissed claims that it was planning to hike the price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol.

THE National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, NCMDLCA, has said the National Assembly cannot upturn the Federal Government decision on the ban on importation of vehicles through the nation’s land borders.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, forwarded to the Senate the name of Aghatise Erediauwa to be screened and confirmed for re-appointment as Executive Director, Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC.

g) Systemic Corruption[7]: Systemic corruption describes a situation where corruption and corrupt way of life have become entrenched in the socio-economic and political fabrics of the society or a nation. In systemic corruption, the practice has reached a routine way of life and so does not generate adverse reaction on those on whom it is […]

This book written by Mr. Frank Agbedo, one of Nigeria’s leading authors in human rights literature and jurisprudence, was recently unveiled to the reading public at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) Kofo Abayomi Road, Victoria Island, Lagos, just a few years after his ground breaking treatise on the rights of criminal suspects in […]

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