Revealed: How NEPZA Top Officials Plot To Corner N42Billion FG Funds, Frustrate Rapid Industrial Schemes
A deliberate plot hatched by some top officials of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority, NEPZA, to corner over N40 billion meant for...
Former U.S Ambassador urges Citizen participation in decision making as Senate confirms NEDC board
A former U.S Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has urged the board of the North East Development Commission, (NEDC) to promote community unity...
IMF projects Nigeria’s growth rate reaching 2.5% in 2020
Global growth rate put at 3.6% Says 70% of world’s economy to experience sluggish growth in 2019 By Ruth Olurounbi, in Washington...
World Bank cuts Africa’s 2019 growth forecast by 15%
By Ruth Olurounbi, in Washington DC The World Bank has cut the Sub-Saharan Africa 2019 growth forecast by as much as 15 percent,...
Violence: FG bans mining activities in Zamfara
Orders foreigners to vacate area The Federal Government has ordered the suspension of all mining activities in Zamfara state with immediate effect. The...
Imperative of a post-election renewal of Nigeria
By Sufuyan Ojeifo With all its perceived imperfections, winners and losers have emerged from the just-concluded general election. But contrary to pre-election apprehension...
Oshiomhole, Omo-Agege get set for fierce fight over senate position
The chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has sparked a fresh battle with Senator Ovie Omo-Agege ((Delta Central) over the position of...
Protesters said Zamfara govt under Yari ‘failed in its responsibility’ to secure the state
Dozens of protesters Saturday in Abuja said that the government of Zamfara state under the leadership of Abdulaziz Yari, clearly has failed in its...
David Malpass is new World Bank president
The World Bank’s executive board on Friday unanimously approved David Malpass as the development bank’s 13th president. The 63-year-old senior US Treasury official...
Insecurity: IGP launches ‘Operation Puff Adder’ along Abuja-Kaduna expressway, others
The Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has launched a security action plan tagged ‘Operation Puff-Adder’, to tackle kidnapping, banditry and other...
Delta APC: Another Federal High Court annuls Omo-Agege, Ogboru, others
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State, has again nullified the candidacy of Great Ogboru, as the...
U.S. Revokes ICC Prosecutor’s Visa Over Afghanistan War Crimes Probe
The United States has revoked the entry visa of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, who is investigating possible war...
The Day In Photos: VP Osinbajo hosts Former U.K Prime Minister Tony Blair
VP Osinbajo on Friday received in audience a delegation from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change led by former Prime Minister of...
ITF NISDP Graduates Need More Than Start-Up Packs – Senate
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Commerce, Trade and Industry, Senator Sam Egwu, has declared that graduates of the National Industrial Skills Development...
