Nigeria’s National Council on Privatisation (NCP) has approved the shortlisting of 525 bids of firms seeking to take over the generation and distribution companies that will emerge from the privatisation of the country’s power monopoly, Power Holding Company of Nigeria … read more
The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) has called on the country’s government to empower security agencies to enable them to tackle the various security challenges in the country. Abdulwahed Omar, President of the NLC made the call while briefing reporters on … read more
As citizens, we are all stakeholders in the fate of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry. For more than four decades, our leaders and their appointees have concentrated on the upstream sector (i.e. crude oil extraction and marketing), hence neglecting the … read more
Nigerian police raided a so-called baby factory in the south-eastern city of Aba, rescuing 32 pregnant teenage girls who were allegedly being held captive in order to have their babies bought, the AFP reports. Authorities claim the raided home in … read more
The ministry of foreign affairs will constitute a disciplinary committee to dig out facts surrounding the allegation of wife battery levelled against Chijioke Wigwe, the recalled Nigerian High Commissioner to Kenya, the ministry’s director of crisis management and public communications, … read more
A radical Islamist sect in remote northeastern Nigeria claimed responsibility on Wednesday for co-ordinated bombs that killed at least 16 people hours after President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in. A spokesman for Boko Haram, a militant group behind years of … read more
ALARM bells were ringing yesterday, as Nigerians continued to import killer vegetables from Europe. At the last count yesterday, 17 people had died, and 1,200 hospitalised, in at least eight European countries, after eating contaminated cucumbers, one of the imported … read more
Wide-ranging reforms to Nigeria’s oil industry will be left to a new parliament to consider but the bill may not have to go back to a first reading, reducing the risk of further long delays, lawmakers said on Wednesday. Uncertainty … read more
Police say that suspected members of a radical sect have killed the brother of the second highest figure in Nigeria’s Muslim community. Borno State police spokesman Lawal Abdullahi said Tuesday that gunmen shot dead Abba Anas Umar on Monday evening … read more
The senate president, David Mark, has blamed the incessant bombing in Nigeria on the ineptitude of the nation’s security agencies. The senate president made the observation on Tuesday after the senate heard and adopted a motion by Ayogu Eze (PDP … read more