While some communities have been without electricity for years, electricity equipment worth N100 billion that would have provided electricity in several communiites are wasting away at a location in Lagos. Managing Director, Rural Electricity Agency (REA), Mr Sam Gekpe, condemened … read more
African leaders who gathered in Lisbon, Portugal for a summit with their colleagues from the European Union yesterday said their aim is not to seek charity but for their countries to be allowed to become major players in the global … read more
United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, held a meeting in New York on Friday with representatives of the Nigerian and Cameroonian governments over the controversial Bakassi peninsular. He was reassured that the UN-mediated Greentree accord was on course, Empowered Newswire … read more
AS part of efforts at meeting the health related Millennium Development Goals target, the Federal Government will soon make available cheaper malaria drugs to Nigerians. The Minister of Health, Professor Adenike Grange who stated this at the weekend in Addis … read more
The coast is now clear for a change of guard at the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Restore Hope. Its Commander, Brig.-Gen. Lawrence Ngubane, has been elevated to the rank of Major Gen. in the Nigerian Army. … read more
Peace in the Niger Delta may still be long in coming as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday disowned the peace agreement the federal and Bayelsa State governments signed with some militants last week in … read more
Drug test: Kano asks FG to seek extradition of Pfizer�s officials Kano State Government has asked the Federal Government to extradite officials of Pfizer Pharmaceutical who are based in the United States of America to face trial over the 1996 … read more
The Lagos chamber of commerce and industry (LCCI) has identified multiple taxes and levies by the government as one of the problems bedeviling the industry. Speaking at the 119th Annual General Meeting of the LCCI, the out-going president of the … read more
A key faction of Nigeria’s main militant group has said it is not involved in a peace ceremony aimed at ending attacks on the oil sector. A Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) spokesman said the event … read more
THE Federal Government, yesterday, suspended further dealings with Siemens, the German company alleged to have bribed some senior Nigerian government officials for the purpose of winning contracts. The decision will subsist until the conclusion of investigations into the allegations, according … read more