Nigeria signed a 677 million euro ($1 billion) pact with the European Union on Thursday aimed at combating corruption and promoting peace in its troubled, oil-producing Niger Delta region. The agreement will help the oil exporter to tackle challenges in … read more
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi yesterday demanded the relocation of the former militants’ rehabilitation camp at Aluu, near the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), over reported cases of assault, rape, looting and disruption of academic activities. During a visit of … read more
THE Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta. Each repentant militant is entitled to an allowance of N65,000 per month for the period of rehabilitation. There are two … read more
Nigeria’s president on Thursday asked the ruling party to step in and resolve a row between the two chambers of parliament over where he should present the 2010 budget, in the hope he can unveil the spending plans next week. … read more
The Federal Government will reduce fuel importation by 40 per cent after the Kaduna and Warri refineries commence full operation by mid December, the Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia, SAN, said in Abuja yesterday. Ajumogobia, who was … read more
The Federal Government has blamed the nation’s current poor rating by Transparency International on the recent fraud discovered in the banking sector. Transparency International had on Tuesday rated Nigeria the 130th most corrupt country in the world for this year, … read more
The Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, announced on Tuesday that his administration will introduce a residents’ identity card scheme. Mr. Fashola disclosed this while presenting the 2010 budget to the State House of Assembly in Alausa, Ikeja. According to him, … read more
Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa’s second largest economy, will not sign free trade deals with the European Union until it is sure it can comfortably compete, a minister said on Wednesday. “Nigeria has not signed the EPA,” Commerce and Industry Minister Achike … read more
‘To before warned is to before armed,’ goes a wise saying which seems to be acting out in reality in the Nigerian entertainment scene lately. With the incessant kidnappings recorded in the South-East in general, entertainment practitioners all over the … read more
N37 million was spent by the Nigeria Police to purchase 150 trained security dogs and their accessories this year out of the N50 million budgeted for it, Police Affairs Minister Ibrahim Lame said in Abuja yesterday. He said capital appropriation … read more