ABUJA—THE Senate has summoned the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mele Lolo Kyari, and the yet-to -be appointed Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, to appear before it and explain the status of existing refineries in the country.

Kaduna— Senator representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani, yesterday, in Abuja, said a measles outbreak in Wusar, a community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has claimed the lives of no fewer than 100 children .

YENAGOA— BAYELSA State government said it has formalised the employment of 904 casual staff in the various ministries, departments and agencies in the state.

THE trouble with Nigeria, Chinua Achebe once famously said, is squarely one of leadership. Most Nigerians and others who have taken more than a fleeting interest in those issues of development that coalesce under the rubric of national question have repeatedly identified with this prognosis of our national malaise.

LG Electronics at the weekend showcased its wide range of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems at the Mega Clima HVAC Exhibition in Lagos.

IN the past three years, 127 Nigerians have been murdered in South Africa. Mrs. Elizabeth Ndubisi-Chukwu, Deputy Director-General of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, CIIN, who was strangled in her hotel room on June 13, 2019 at Kempton Park while attending a conference, is the latest and the most prominent victim thus far.

NSUKKA—The sleepy Igogoro village in Enugu-Ezike, Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State was thrown into mourning and panic, Monday night, as eight construction workers died in a septic tank.

ABUJA—PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, assured Nigerians that his administration will not return the country to the days of exporting jobs through the importation of food and clothing items that can be produced locally.

THE Jigawa State Con-tributory Pension Scheme, CPS, was established by the administration of former Governor Ibrahim Saminu Turaki in 2001 and received legal backing from the state legislature in 2004. The asset of the scheme as at March this year was over N20 billion.

The Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has decried the incessant protest being staged by members of the Islamic Movement in the Nigeria, IMN, over the detention of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The centre said IMN members were using terror and violence to subvert justice in ongoing trial of El- Zakzakky. CESJET made […]

MANAGING Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, has said that the development of any port without the complement of adequate rail transportation is a recipe for congestion.

In this interview, Ade Bajomo, Lead Digital Technology and Operations, Access Bank speaks to Princewill Ekwujuru on the bank’s facilitation to create a technology hub that brings together innovators who have technological solutions to human problems and how this   encourages growth in the banking sector.

Residents of Obi Road and Landlords/Landladies Association in Alibioba Community, Uromi Junction, Agbor, headquarters of Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, have sent a Save Our Souls, SOS,  to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, to save them from the menace of environmental degradation and ecological disaster by rehabilitating the deplorable Dein Motor Way.

THE Senate, yesterday, said it would carry out a holistic investigation into the delay in the construction of Aba-Ikot Ekepene Road, which was awarded to NIGERCAT Construction Company in 2008.

A probe panel investigating the financial expenditures of Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, ISOPADEC, between 2011-2019, has visited the commission for the first time to begin work.