Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, yesterday visited former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd), in his Uphill mansion to facilitate with him on his 80th birthday.

•As investments in corporate debts rise 13.9% to N904.9bn By Peter Egwuatu Pension Fund Adminis trators, PFAs, are moving most of their pension asset holdings to corporate bonds even as the total investments in corporate debt securities, CDS, in May 2021 rose 13.9 per cent to N904.9 billion as against  N794.7 billion in the preceding […]

The abducted students of the College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Bakura in Zamfara State have appealed to Governor Bello Matawalle and the government to pay the ransom demanded by their abductors within 24 hours.

The Outbreak of Gastroenteritis has killed 50 people in Sokoto state.

THE Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, debunked media reports that no judge was available to sign the warrant for the release of 12 persons arrested at the residence of Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, fondly called Sunday Igboho, after they perfected all their bail conditions.

he disagreement between Tropical Arctic Logistics (TAL), a Lagos-based non-scheduled domestic airline operator and Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, got messier yesterday when TAL accused an official of the Airworthiness Department of NCAA of colluding with a foreign firm to shut down its operations by refusing to renew its Air Operator Certificate, AOC.

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Saturday met with Qatar’s Special Envoy Mutlaq bin Majed Al-Qahtani in New Delhi and discussed Doha peace process on Afghanistan.

THE National Assembly was, yesterday, told that unsubstantiated balances amounting to N4.973 trillion were observed by the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation in the audit carried out on consolidated financial statement of the Federal Government in 2019.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday begged host communities of the Niger Delta to accept the three per cent equity allocated to them in the new Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, saying the country lost an estimated $50 billion worth of investments in ten years as a result of non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, lack of progress and stagnation in the petroleum industry.

a myriad encounters in the boulevard of memories –   A review of Dr Olushola Adeborode Kolawole’s book, ‘Reflections’.

The Kogi East Christian Elders/Leaders Forum has called on its people to be vigilant as Middle Belters, to protect their God- given territory against land grabbers and invaders masquerading as Fulani herdsmen, bandits and kidnappers, whose sole aim is to dislodge and over run the Middle Belt.

Image used to illustrate the story By Innocent Anaba & Onozure Dania Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, weekend,  expressed concern that his state was  in a very difficult situation over the ongoing surrender by repentant insurgents. He said: “We have to critically look between two extreme conditions and decide our future. We have to […]

The Federal Government has taken some steps to address the challenges that led to last month’s stoppage of the dualisation work at the Benue section of the Markudi-Keffi Expressway being constructed by the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC).

PRESIDENT of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, yesterday, gave an insight at what the National Assembly did to get the much awaited Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, passed and eventually signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday.

The participation of Nigerians in the Diaspora in the economic activities of their homeland was taken to another critical notch as the Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa met with the Director-General of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) Alhaji Lamido Yuguda in Abuja on Wednesday, August 18, 2021. At this […]