Detectives are to quiz Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu tomorrow on some assets linked with him. He is expected at 10a.m. at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abuja. This is the second time in a week that the EFCC has invited Ekweremadu. According to a source, who spoke in confidence, the invitation followed […]
Struggle for control rocks party in Kwara PDP aspirant won’t quit for defectors Senate President Bukola Saraki’s political future is causing ripples in the Kwara State All Progressives Congress (APC). Saraki, who is the leader of the party in the state, is obviously on his way out, following the defection of 13 APC senators to […]
Eminent Nigerians at the weekend suggested the way out of the killings in parts of the country. To a former Inspector-General of Police Suleiman Abba, the way to go is community policing. Senate Committee on Police Affairs Chairman Abu Ibrahim canvassed the introduction of Border Guards to check the influx of foreign fighters into the […]
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 […]
Mr. Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh is the son of First Republic politician and Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. In this exclusive interview with our South-south Regional Editor, Shola O’Neil, the TV producer and founder of apolitical Progressive Alliance Movement (PAM) speaks on the performance of APC-led Federal Government, killings and Tuesday’s mass defection from the ruling party, […]
Renowned German political philosopher Friedrich Engels once stated that all a politician needs to prosecute a successful battle is good tactics, as well as strategic and dialectical thinking. But, Assistant Editor SINA FADARE reports that Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, who had a good outing in the 2014 governorship election, got his strategy wrong during […]
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 Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti, said decrepit waste compactors relied upon by Private Sector Participation (PSP) operators to cart refuse have constituted a major hindrance to effective waste disposal in the state. He spoke on the sidelines of a familiarisation and fact-finding visit by the Federal Commissioner, Lagos State Office, […]
Detectives are to quiz Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu tomorrow on some assets linked with him. He is expected at 10a.m. at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abuja. This is the second time in a week that the EFCC has invited Ekweremadu. According to a source, who spoke in confidence, the invitation followed […]
Struggle for control rocks party in Kwara PDP aspirant won’t quit for defectors Senate President Bukola Saraki’s political future is causing ripples in the Kwara State All Progressives Congress (APC). Saraki, who is the leader of the party in the state, is obviously on his way out, following the defection of 13 APC senators to […]
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 […]
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) have cases to answer over non-remittance of revenues to the Federation Account for several months, a new report has shown. The Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. Anthony Ayine, in his Annual Audit Report for 2016, said it was observed from the Central […]
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 […]
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 […]
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) have cases to answer over non-remittance of revenues to the Federation Account for several months, a new report has shown. The Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. Anthony Ayine, in his Annual Audit Report for 2016, said it was observed from the Central […]
The Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti, said decrepit waste compactors relied upon by Private Sector Participation (PSP) operators to cart refuse have constituted a major hindrance to effective waste disposal in the state. He spoke on the sidelines of a familiarisation and fact-finding visit by the Federal Commissioner, Lagos State Office, […]
Mr. Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh is the son of First Republic politician and Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. In this exclusive interview with our South-south Regional Editor, Shola O’Neil, the TV producer and founder of apolitical Progressive Alliance Movement (PAM) speaks on the performance of APC-led Federal Government, killings and Tuesday’s mass defection from the ruling party, […]
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