PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, declining assent to Federal Roads Authority (Establishment) Bill and National Transport Commissions Bill 2018.

President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with oil and gas industrialist, Chief Leemon Ikpea, who turned 62 yesterday.

OWERRI—President-General  of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has said that the challenges facing the Igbo nation have not been addressed.

The number of unemployed Nigerians rose by 3.3 million to 20.9 million in the third quarter of 2018 (Q3’18), a report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown.

NO fewer than 100 houses, 100 shops and 50 cars went up in flames in the early hours of yesterday, in Abule-Egba and Agege areas of Lagos, rendering several families homeless.

SINCE his first appointment into the government of President Muhammed Buhari in the coveted office as GMD of NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has enjoyed great public recognition and importance.  His eventual elevation into the office as Minister of Petroleum has not diminished his standing as the poster boy of PMB’s government in the Petroleum sub-sector. Dr. Kachikwu came with a big reputation having been head hunted from Exxon Mobile petroleum America’s oil Giant Corporation to serve in the APC government.

ENUGU—THE Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Ngozi Emehelu has inaugurated two specialised Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR, courts; for quick dispensation of justice among litigants in the state.

Coordinator, UNILAG, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory, AIRoL, Dr. Chika Yinka Banjo from the Department of Computer Science, University of Lagos, has urged youths to brace up for the future, adding that employing robot to the workforce would reduce unemployment.

NIGERIA Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has told President Muhammadu Buhari, that only a total overhauling and amendment of Nigeria Contents Monitoring and Development Board, NCMDB, Act will make it achieve its aims.

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi Obosi, Anambra State, the hometown of former Secretary-General, Commonwealth of Nations, Chief Emeka Anyaoku and former Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Chief Osita Chidoka, recently rolled out the drums in celebration of one of their enterprising youths, 2nd Lieutenant Ugochukwu Nwama, who distinguished himself as the overall best graduating […]

Orphans and widows under the care of Selfaid   Capacity Development Initiative have received several gifts from Greensprings School to celebrate the yuletide.

As part of activities to com-memorate the 2018 World AIDS Day, the Lift Above Poverty Organisation, LAPO, on Thursday screened not fewer than 100 barbers, hair dressers and cosmetologists in Lagos. 

ASABA—A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ughelli North Local Council of Delta State, Professor Innocent Ojefia, has urged Deltans to protect their votes during the forthcoming general elections.

ENUGU—ALL workers, except doctors, at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu, FNHE, yesterday, embarked on a three-day warning strike to press home their demand for the management of the hospital to redeem the agreement it entered into with the labour leaders of the hospital.

SAPELE — THE impeached Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Mr Monday Igbuya, has said All Progressives Congress, APC, may not win the state governorship election unless members of the party put a stop to unceasing litigations against one another.