Apapa traffic: NPA charges port users to take advantage of incentives
The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Ms Hadiza Bala Usman has called on port users to take advantage of incentives introduced to ease the financial burden following the congestion resulting from the traffic gridlock in the port city of Apapa.
2019: PDP’s strategy to retain power in Delta
One thing the Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has been noted for is its early planning for elections. For the past 19 years, the PDP has been in power in Delta State.
Nigeria’s absent middle class: A threat to democracy
THE significant disparities between rich and poor in Nigeria no longer invite much comment or analysis: poverty, despite political rhetoric, is more or less accepted as the capitalist norm and many have been content to watch the middle class gradually disappear, squeezed into in-existence by systemic corruption and economic inefficiency. Interestingly, in other West African countries which haven’t had the Nigerian experience of military rule (Senegal and Ivory Coast, for example), the middle class lives a life that only few could dream of in Nigeria. It isn’t strange in such countries to find individuals buying yoghuts, meats and hams which in Nigeria are reserved for a small elite.
2019 and the prospects of a better Nigeria
WELCOME to 2019. Let us thank God for granting us the grace of entering into the new year. Thank God we are not in the statistics of those killed by Boko Haram insurgents, militant cattle herdsmen, kidnappers, armed robbers, police/military stray bullets and sundry marauders who combined to turn Nigeria into a killing field in 2018 particularly.
Interconnect debt: NCC assures no telecom subscriber’ll be disconnected
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has assured the general public that none of the over 160million telecoms subscribers in Nigeria will be disconnected or suffer service disruptions as a result of its recent order to permit the disconnection of indebted operators from other operators’ networks.
Police nab 4 kidnap suspects
The Police in Borno have arrested four suspected kidnappers and rescued one victim at Tuga village in Damboa Local Government Area of the state.
Operators, stakeholders list woes of maritime sector
As 2018 maritime year comes to an end, sector stakeholders and operators have indicated that regulatory and operational environment worsened during the year gone by.
Probe Marshal Badeh’s assassination
THE gruesome murder of former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh by gunmen on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, was a sad reminder of the perilous times we live in, here in Nigeria.
IMO aims at crew safety, combating illegal fishing
The Maritime Safety Committee is the International Maritime Organization’s senior technical body on safety-related matters. Member States meet twice a year to discuss safety of life at sea. International Maritime Organization
How we survived on half a loaf of bread, ‘pure water’ for 4 days – Kidnapped Catholic priests
Enugu—A Catholic priest, Rev Fr Cajetan Apeh, yesterday, relieved his experiences in the den of kidnappers.
Why Customs linked seized Owerri armoured vehicles to national security
The Controller, Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘C’, Owerri, Imo State, Comptroller Kayode Olusemire, has said that the importations of armoured vehicles portend several risks to Nigeria.
