The call for micro zoning of various positions being contested for at the December 9 convention of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday got a boost as two aspirants from the northern part of the country maintained that micro zoning had helped the party to stabilize over the years and that it should not be jettisoned for any reason. 

ABUJA—THE Senate, yesterday, finally reviewed and amended the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Establishment Act of 2000, to make it mandatory for International Oil and Gas Companies to set aside three percent of their budget for the development of the Niger Delta region.

A legal practitioner, Mr. Jesutega Onokpasa, has described calls for termination of the tenure of the present board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as “a most perplexing trend” by “rabble-rousers” who want “to unilaterally rewrite the enabling law for the National Assembly.”

Children living with disabilities in Lagos state and its environs may now heave a sigh of relief as the state government has said it will create more disability schools to accommodate children living with disabilities in the state.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, CIPM, has inducted over 400 new associate members, calling for professional development skills for effective service delivery.  

THE Chief of Staff to Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Talford Ongolo, has dismissed as untrue, the claims by some politicians in the state that the ongoing crusade against pay roll fraud and reforms in the state and Local Government service are selective, saying the ongoing reforms are evidence -based.

WARRI—MAJOR downstream player, Matrix Energy, has promised steady supply of affordable Liquified Petroleum Gas, LPG, when its 5,000 metric tons storage facility opens in December at Ifiekporo, Warri South Local Government Area, Delta State.

THE Rochas Foundation has described the late former Vice President Alex Ekwueme, as a colossal loss to the Igbo, Nigeria and the African continent. Director General Mrs Uloma Rochas Nwosu, in a statement in Owerri, described Ekwueme as “a father to the founder of the group Owelle Rochas Okorocha and an icon greatly admired by […]

enugu—The Enugu State Government , yesterday, took delivery of 25 units of 60KVA generating sets procured to replace the aged ones in Enugu metropolis as well as install new ones in the University town of Nsukka.

Osadebey Avenue is today a trade outpost for Obaseki’s foreign friends from Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, having ousted the politicos “for their nuisance value”

How much is too much to pay for peace? Any rash deposing of Mugabe could easily have plunged the country into chaos and wars, like Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya

ABUJA—Troops in Borno State, Tuesday, captured a Boko Haram terrorists leader.

abuja—Minister  of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, yesterday, suspended the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, over allegations of financial misappropriation.

Kogi Government on Tuesday says it has released N91 million counterpart funds for implementation of all health intervention programmes to facilitate partners’ activities in the state.

Last Thursday, Corona School, Ikoyi, Lagos emerged the overall best at the 9th Corona Inter-School Quiz Competition, held at its Victoria Island School premises after a keen contest involving five primary arms, comprising four representatives of Corona Schools.