NIGERIAN leaders at all levels have been asked to embrace justice and good governance as a major step towards the success of the current rebranding project. Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, who made the call when the minister of information, Prof. Dora Akunyili, paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Uyo, stressed […]

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna – THE Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) yesterday reopened the factory of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) with a warning that it would clamp down on more companies that default in the payment of tax to government. The FIRS had, last Thursday, shut down the Kaduna headquarters factory of PAN, Nigeria’s only […]

By Babajide Komolafe NIGERIA recorded $6.9 billion from crude oil exports in the second quarter of the year while the economy grew by 5.13 per cent. The Central Bank (CBN) in its economic report for the second quarter said the country exported 113.75 million barrels of oil during the quarter sold at an average price […]

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna – THE Shiite Islamic sect  otherwise known as Islamic Movement of Nigeria denied, yesterday, any link with the Boko Haram Islamic sect, saying it could not be against western education when it currently has over 300 schools across Nigeria teaching both western and Islamic education. In a statement signed by the […]

By  Kingsley Omonobi Abuja – For the 28 Nigerian Army soldiers who served in the 15th battalion in the United Nations’ Mission in Liberia, but who engaged themselves in a violent demonstration on the streets of Akure, the Ondo State capital, between the 4th and 5th of July, 2009, over allowances, some reprieve came their […]