Enugu—AN early  morning fire Wednesday, gutted the residence of Enugu State Commissioner for Finance, Mrs Vivian Eze. An eye witness, who preferred anonymity, told newsmen that the inferno started at about midnight and raged until about 4 a.m., reducing the building to rubbles. Although no live was lost, the fire was said to have been […]

By Luka Binniyat ABUJA – THE House of Representatives, next Tuesday, will debate a motion that seeks to immortalise the late former First Lady, Mrs. Maryam Babangida by re-naming the National Centre for Women Development, NCWD, Abuja after her. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives Committee Chairman on Defence, Oluwole Oke, said Late Maryam Babangida worked […]

…releases N32bn to marketers for product importation By Yemie Adeoye & Oscarline Onwuemenyi LAGOS—FOLLOWING the perennial scarcity of petroleum products that is currently rocking the nation and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, incessant claims of having enough products to saturate the market, the Federal Government has finally succumbed to pressure and announced that there […]

By Emeka Mamah KADUNA — The Kaduna State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday condemned the on-going mass retrenchment of workers in the banking industry, saying it was designed to cause more hardship for Nigerian workers and deepen the country’s economic crises. The NLC, therefore, said it would soon encourage an indefinite strike […]

ABUJA—The Peoples Progressive Alliance, PPA, has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party  led Federal Government for not doing enough to defend Nigeria in the face of the latest action by the US, which branded the country a terrorist nation. According to  PPA, the failure of the government at the   centre to react strongly against the accusation […]