The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has arrested a medical doctor and six others over alleged sale of a five-month-old baby. The command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Fredrick Nnudam, made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday in Uyo, Unudam said that the doctor was an employee of one of the teaching hospitals in Calabar. […]

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, has put Nigeria’s oil output, excluding Condensate, at 1.78 million barrels per day, m/bd, in April 2020.

The Accountant-General of Cross River, Mr Joseph Adie, says that the gratuities of retired civil servants in the state had been paid up till February 2014. Adie made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Calabar. He said that although government had cleared the payment of 2013 gratuities, its monthly allocations from […]

By Ugochukwu Alaribe – Umuahia Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has banned street trading at the popular Opobo junction, Igbor Hill, Aba, and directed the Traffic and Indiscipline Management Agency of Abia State, TIMAAS, too, rid the area of forms of street trading. Ikpeazu gave the directive to the General Manager of the agency, […]

The Coronavirus pandemic as a global issue has strained the wheels of most economies of the world, leaving it almost at crashing points after a long period of economic inactivity.

The prices of crude oil at the international market recorded a marginal increase, as Nigeria’s premium grade, Bonny Light, traded at $24.59 barrel per barrel against $23.52 recorded yesterday.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has petitioned Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and Total E &P Nigeria Limited over the termination of employment of their members and refusal to pay their entitlements by one of their contractors, Valiant/Vicadis.

The Federal Operations Unit, FOU Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted various items of contraband worth N12.7billion between January and April 2020.
The Unit also intercepted a vehicle with Covid-19 sticker used for smuggling frozen chicken into the country from Benin Republic.

NON-teaching teaching staff of universities are poised for a showdown with the Federal Government after the lockdown over the irregularities experienced in the payment of salaries since they enrolled in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS.

HP and the African Union Commission, AUC, have agreed to join efforts to expand digital learning opportunities for all youth in 55 AU member states. Both entities have agreed to collaborate on various initiatives including exchange of information and expertise, as well as promotion of online platforms to support digital learning. Africa has the youngest population in the world with more than 400 million young people aged between 15 to 35 years.

A LAWYER, Mr. Tolu Ayodele, has faulted the decision of the Federal Government to continue its school feeding programme when schools in the country have been shit down due to the coronavirus pandemic.

THE Non-Academic Staff of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has said that it will rebuff any circular issued by any university authorities directing its members to resume duties amid escalating coronavirus pandemic.

THE Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, SAN, has commiserated with the government of Lagos State, the judiciary, immediate and extended families of the late Justice Isiaka Ishola Oluwa, a retired Justice of the Lagos High Court, and former Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the university, who died on Saturday, May 9, 2020 at the age of 102 years.

By Esther Onyegbula The vice-chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, has handed a marching order to the academic staff of his institution on online students’ facilitation as an inescapable practice. Giving the charge during the inauguration ceremony of NOUN Oracle Academy organised by the Department of Computer Science, NOUN, on […]

MARITIME transportation plays a major role in international trade and economic growth of any country and Nigeria is not excluded. Transporting goods by sea remains the most common way to trade globally. A substantial percentage of goods are transported through the ports for reasons for cost consideration. According to the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Nigeria […]