Gov Seriake Dickson was in Abuja, last weekend to pay his state’s N422 million water project counterpart fund. At that event, he spoke to journalists on a wide range of national issues, including why it is not in the interests of APC for PDP to be destroyed and cautioned that the federal government must guide against turning security agencies into organs of APC.

By Rosemary Onuoha THE National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has directed all insurance institutions to ensure that Nigerian insurers, reinsurers and pools be offered and allowed to willingly decide the proportion of the risk they wish to accept, subject to their respective capacities, before any application for approval of offshore placement of the excess. NAICOM warned […]

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, banned banks from any transactions in virtual currencies.

AWKA- MEMBERS of the Nnewi Micro Auto Parts Producers, MAPP, who operate under a cluster at the industrial town, have pleaded with the Federal Government to accommodate them at the proposed Anambra Auto Industrial Park being established by the Federal Government in the state.

ABA-Motorists plying the Aba- Azumini highway in Abia state have cries out the federal government to commence rehabilitation works on the dilapidated Aba- Azumini highway.

ENUGU- The day was Tuesday January 10, 2017 and before 9a.m. the Park Avenue GRA Enugu, venue of the national secretariat of pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, was cordoned-off using the heavy duty machines of the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority.

A high fibre diet of bread and beans can successfully tackle gout, an inflammatory arthritis, disease with sudden onset of acute pain, redness and swelling in peripheral joints, most commonly in the big toe. This latest development is the result of findings by a group of experts who revealed this week, that a diet high in fibre, such as beans, wholemeal bread, rice and jacket potatoes, can also cut arthritis pain.

By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo THE atmosphere in the Akwa Ibom State capital has become tense following the ongoing investigation into the collapsed Reigners Bible Church, Int’l Uyo by the Commission of Inquiry set up by the state government. The Commission which is headed by Justice Umoekoyo Essang (retd) commenced its fact-finding on the controversial tragic […]

Last week in continuation of my examination of the huge potentials of Agriculture as a means out of getting Nigeria out of the current economic crisis, I focused on the advantages of the River Basin Development Authorities established in 1976 by the regime of the then General Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR. I concluded by calling on government to to revisit the river basin schemes in order to improve agricultural fortunes of Nigeria.

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