Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) got N1,580,270,755,084.44 as capital cost for 2017 budget, the Federal Government said yesterday. Finance Minister Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, who released the figure in Abuja yesterday, said the N1,580,270,755,084.44 total capital releases for 2017 was remarkably higher than the N1,219,471,747,443.00 total capital releases for 2016. In the 2017 capital releases “Power, […]
•NEC okays N179b for 10-year plan Ninety-four ranches are on the way in 10 states prone to herdsmen/farmers clashes. The National Economic Council (NEC) chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has approved a 10-year National Livestock Plan which will cost about N179 billion. All 36 state governors are members of the NEC. About N70 billion […]
A yet-to-be-identified man yesterday committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the Grand Mosque in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca. The state news agency, SPA, quoted the police as saying:”A foreigner threw himself from the roof of the Grand Mosque in Mecca” to the courtyard below, “resulting in his instant death.” The body […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday night gave reasons why he prevented his Special Adviser on Media and publicity, Femi Adesina, from responding to an attack on him by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo in January had issued a statement criticising Buhari’s administration and advising him not to recontest in 2019. Receiving members of the Buhari […]
President Mohammadu Buhari yesterday assured parents of the abducted girls that he won’t rest until the last girl is freed from captivity. He also promised to punish “any agency”, person or group found to have been negligent or culpable in the girls’ abduction. The President spoke in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, at a meeting […]
Chinedu Onyeizu is a senatorial aspirant in Abia State on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview with Associate Editor, Sam Egburonu, the 38 year-old petroleum engineer, who graduated from Federal University of Technology (FUTO) Owerri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, explains how his […]
The governorship aspirations of many senators have pitched them against governors and other party leaders in their states. As the polity prepares for next year’s general elections, RAYMOND MORDI and MUSA ODOSHIMOKHE examine the crises generated by the matter and the chances of the aspirants. Governors and senators are at loggerheads in many states. The […]
Former House of Representatives member Hon. Bimbo Daramola is a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State. He spoke with EMMANUEL OLADESU in Lagos on the proposed primary, his chances and how the party can win the June 14 poll. WHAT are the conditions that may not make […]
An unnamed Asaba-based pastor is on the run for allegedly masterminding the kidnap of a lady, The Nation has learnt. The lady, it was learnt, recently received some money from relatives residing overseas to help them do a project. The pastor reportedly escaped as policemen closed in on him. It was learnt that the church […]
The Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Transport and Petroleum Resources has urged commuters to avoid boarding unregistered vehicles. The ministry’s Head of Compliance and Monitoring Unit, Mr. Maurice Edet, gave the warning, following rising cases of crime allegedly perpetrated by drivers of unregistered vehicles. Addressing reporters yesterday in Uyo, the state capital, Edet said the […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said there are 73,109 Permanent Voter Cards yet to be collected by registered voters in Edo State. It said the uncollected PVCs were the remaining of the 78,398 PVCs recorded during the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise held between April 22, 2017 and December 30, 2017 Edo Resident […]
Contrary to reports last week that Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe, has reconciled with her estranged husband Lanre Gentry and had equally returned to their matrimonial home, the mother of two has denied the report. Aigbe who spoke to The Nation on Sunday said the case is still in court and the matter was yet to […]
Tension was on break in the Big Brother Naija show this Sunday, as no housemate was evicted as earlier promised. Instead, it was music feast all the way, starting with the housemates’ rendition of a ONE Africa campaign song titled ‘Let’s Educate A Girl Child’. Leading the performance with her sonorous voice was Bisola, just […]
Could you please tell us about yourself? I am a partner in the EPG practice, (specialising in energy and power) in the Nigerian law firm of Banwo & Ighodalo. I come from a happy, close knit and large family of six children. I am the fourth of six children and the second daughter with two […]
Pep Guardiola has met Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed and the club’s chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak on Wednesday afternoon as the Spaniard enjoys a trip away in Dubai. The Spaniard was pictured in high spirits as he talked with the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and the Emirati entrepreneur in […]
Barcelona thumped Chelsea 3-0 at Camp Nou on Wednesday in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League Round of 16, to move into the quarter-finals. Bayern Munich also qualified for the quarter-finals on Wednesday, after beating Besiktas 3-1, to amass an aggregate 8-1. The Catalans who held Chelsea 1-1 in London two weeks ago, […]
EXPERIENCED CAF Club contenders, AlIttihad of Libya will fly Vicdirectly from Tripoli to Uyo today in a private jet that has been put at the disposal of the club by shareholders from the oil rich country. An advance party led by Abushawashi Snoussi that arrived Lagos last Tuesday aboard Royal Air Maroc and departed for […]
Its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Adeoye Fadeyibi, said this while deliberating on how the company could improve its service delivery at a town hall meeting in Victoria Island in Lagos Fadebiyi, represented by Mr Joseph Esenwa, the Chief Finance Officer of the company, said there had been high rate of energy theft and non-payment of […]
Federal Government plans to repay N482 billion of treasury bills (T-Bills) in the second quarter of this year. The regulator will also halve the amount it wants to raise between March and May to lower borrowing costs, according to debt auction calendar seen released yesterday. A total of N964 billion worth of bills fall due […]
Nigeria’s most capitalised financial institution and leading tier one commercial bank- Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Plc recorded a pre-tax profit of N200 billion in 2017, prompting the board of the bank to recommend distribution of N79.5 billion as cash dividend to shareholders. Key extracts of the audited report and accounts of GTB for the year […]
Toyota has revealed its i-TRIL concept vehicle, a fully-electric city car, designed to showcase the future of mobility. An online report by Auto Express on Tuesday said the Toyota i-TRIL, a Geneva Motor Show concept, was designed to demonstrate the thinking of the Japanese manufacturer on what the urban mobility would look like in the […]
A Japanese automaker, Mazda Motor Company, says it is updating its Mazda3 and Mazda6 with the company’s G-Vectoring Control as standard equipment for 2017, an online journal, Automotive News, has reported. While Mazda 3 (known as the Mazda Axela in Japan) is a compact car, Mazda 6 (known as the Mazda Atenza in China and […]
Who would have thought that Kia, the once lowly rated Korean automobile brand could rule the automobile world in 2016. Who could have imagined Kia as the first non-premium brand to top the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study, IQS, ranking in 27 years. And who could have imagined Kia Rio as the ‘Car of the […]
An unnamed Asaba-based pastor is on the run for allegedly masterminding the kidnap of a lady, The Nation has learnt. The lady, it was learnt, recently received some money from relatives residing overseas to help them do a project. The pastor reportedly escaped as policemen closed in on him. It was learnt that the church […]
The Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Transport and Petroleum Resources has urged commuters to avoid boarding unregistered vehicles. The ministry’s Head of Compliance and Monitoring Unit, Mr. Maurice Edet, gave the warning, following rising cases of crime allegedly perpetrated by drivers of unregistered vehicles. Addressing reporters yesterday in Uyo, the state capital, Edet said the […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said there are 73,109 Permanent Voter Cards yet to be collected by registered voters in Edo State. It said the uncollected PVCs were the remaining of the 78,398 PVCs recorded during the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise held between April 22, 2017 and December 30, 2017 Edo Resident […]
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