The management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), on Tuesday, said it needed a minimum of 1,400 megawatts of electricity to be able to provide 24-hour power supply to customers in its franchise areas.

 UN Children Fund (UNICEF), says it has tracked and enrolled 194,883 out-of-school children in five Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Adamawa.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “the passing of a bill seeking to give leaders of federal and state legislatures immunity from prosecution for corruption.”

Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos) comprising gas-fired and hydro stations said that they could not generate 3,060.5 megawatts of electricity on Monday due to unavailability of gas.

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with government and people of Egypt over the passing of former President, Hosni Mubarak, 91, on Tuesday. President Buhari also commiserated with family, friends and associates of the former military pilot, who ruled the country for more than 29 years, pursuing peace within the country, and with […]

The Executive Council of the African Union has supported Dr. Akinwumi Adesina’s candidacy for a second term as President of the African Development Bank.

A High Court in Kaduna, on Monday ordered the Correctional Center, to allow leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zinat full access to medical services before taking their plea on April 23. The court presided by Justice Gideon Kurada, gave the order, after the Controller of the […]

Federal government says it is prioritising the Nigerian tourism sector because it believes that the sector with its huge potentials would in the nearest future be the next oil and gas in revenue generation for the country.

By Tordue Salem, Abuja The Acting Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Capt. Musa Nuhu on Tuesday told the House of Representatives that foreign airlines that were Nigeria-bound but diverted their flights to other countries, will compensate their traumatised passengers. The lead Aviation agency, made the pledge before the House Committee on Aviation, headed by […]

YOUTHS of Odimodi and its environs in the Iduwini Kingdom, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State have raised an alarm over an alleged havoc caused by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), through the spread of deadly chemicals in its waterways that resulted to the death of fishes and other aquatic bodies in its waters.

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has urged Nigerians to shun ethnicity and religious bigotry to accelerate national development.

The Association of Nigerian Professionals in Europe (ANPE) has warned against any meditated non-diplomatic regional alliance with the Republic of Chad capable of thwarting progress in the fight against terrorism.

Says Sector Sitting on Cage of Unexplored Potentialities By Emmanuel Elebeke   Federal government says it is prioritising the Nigerian tourism sector because it believes that the sector with its huge potentials would in the nearest future be the next oil and gas in revenue generation for the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, […]

ABUJA- THE Senate has begun investigation into the level of Compliance to Road Safety Legislations amongst Haulage operators, owners and drivers on the nation’s Highways.

By Davies Iheamnachor There is pandemonium in Rivers State as men of the State’s Taskforce Committee on Street Trading hack man to death. The incident happened around GRA junction on Aba-Port Harcourt expressway, this evening. ALSO READ: Land Grabbing: Group protests against C’River government over Navy land The Hausa community in the state have taken […]