Philip Ndukwu has in a recent interview with Lambo Xtra hinted on a new release scheduled to drop this Friday titled “Work”. It’s believed that this audio gifting was prompted by the singer’s strong desire to see prominent changes in his country.

A chieftain of the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC), has disclaimed a report insinuating that President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed Ondo and Edo state Governors for a second term adding that “the President is a democrat and one who is not in the business of enthroning aspirants on his party”.

By Eric Ugbor – Aba One inmate was reportedly died, with many others injured at the Nigeria Correction Service, Aba when some old inmates tried but failed, to escape from the prisons over the weekend. Vanguard reliably gathered that some good number of inmates Saturday afternoon tried breaking away from the prisons, but met strong […]

Madagascar has registered its first coronavirus death, a 57-year-old medical worker who suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure, the national COVID-19 taskforce said on Sunday. Taskforce spokeswoman Hanta Danielle Vololontiana said in a televised statement that the man died on Saturday night. READ ALSO: MADAGASCAR COVID-19 CURE: Buhari opens up, says he will ‘listen […]

By Ibrahim Hassan Kaduna State Government has re-adjusted the two-day window of the restriction of movement order, to allow residents to visit neighbourhood markets to purchase food and other essentials. A statement by the Managing Director of Kaduna Markets Development and Management Company(KMDMC), Muhammad Hafiz Bayero on Sunday, said that Wednesdays and Thursdays are now […]

A full U.S. economic recovery might require a coronavirus vaccine and could take more than a year, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said on Sunday. “In the long run and even in the medium run, you wouldn’t want to bet against the American economy. “This economy will recover,” Powell said in an excerpt of an […]

Barely one year of its post-merger with erstwhile Diamond Bank Plc, shareholders of Access Bank Plc, have started reaping the gains of the successfully consummated marriage which has made the Bank to be the largest in the country by total assets as well as largest in Africa by customer base.

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Federal Government, Sunday, disclosed of inaugurating a Technical Committee on revitalizing service of 75, 000 agricultural extension workers in two years in order to enhance farmers’ performance and productivity. The inauguration was made by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Nanono, in Abuja, as contained in a […]

been published today. But, a more urgent matter has arisen. The Federal Government announced what was called the 2020 Revised Budget. Keen observers would have noticed that there is little difference in the aggregate figure from the original budget.

Forty years after the commencement of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex, in Kogi State, what should have been a game-changer in Nigeria’s industrialization remains a dream till date. Successive Presidential candidates went to Kogi to canvass votes with the the promise to complete the multi-billion dollar project and put it to operation, but each ended abandoning it after winning elections.

Following allegations that the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), violated the administrative guidelines of the Commission by sacking and promoting staff without interview or tests as provided for in the civil service rules, Concerned staff of NDDC, Monday appealed to the Nigerian senate to as a matter of urgency, hasten up in its investigation, so as to put a stop to the alleged breakdown of law in the commission.

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By Owei Lakemfa IT is not unusual for me to receive messages asking that I address particular issues in my twice weekly columns. Sometimes students ask that I write on particular topics they are being taught or conducting research on. But the amount of requests I have received in the last fortnight that I write […]

By Charles Isichie YOUR Excellency, I write as a citizen and businessman who is concerned about how some of the decisions you have taken in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic affects the maritime sector within which I operate. I also intend to address how the current situation may ultimately affect the economy of the […]

THE Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, the Bank Verification Number, BVN, and the Treasury Single Account, TSA, were technology-based instruments to fight corruption and money laundering at source and sanitise government spending. IPPIS, in particular, was meant to digitalise the payroll of the Federal Government and eliminate the ghost worker syndrome whereby corrupt […]