By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA—Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike, has inaugurated the first and most modern Operational Data Room ever built by the Nigerian military with a capability to get across both international and internal theaters of operation including several peacekeeping and internal security areas at the press of a button. This […]

…sector to gulp N83.3bn in 2010 By Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA — With 56 days to the deadline for the achievement of 6,000 megawatts of electricity, the Federal Government, yesterday, disclosed that only about 3,000MW of power supply was currently being enjoyed in the country. Minister of Power, Dr. Lanre Babalola, who made this disclosure during […]

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA—THE Presidency has said there was nothing wrong with the comment accredited to the Senate on the 2009 budget as a failure; saying that rather than consider the comment as an attack on the executive it should be seen as constructive criticism. Fielding questions from newsmen  yesterday, Presidential spokesman, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi […]

By Henry Umoru ABUJA— A new twist emerged yesterday in the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with the National Chairman of the Party, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor dissolving the existing Executive Committee and replacing it with a caretaker Committee. It would be recalled that the State Executive Committee and the National Working […]

By Yemie Adeoye FOLLOWING the allegation of fraud levelled against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over products importation and storage in private depots, the National Assembly yesterday charged President Umaru Yar’Adua to remove the embargo placed on the sale of four refineries in Nigeria, while also canvassing outright sale of the facilities to save […]