archiveJanuary 2018

By Friday Olokor During my days as an undergraduate, my activities in campus journalism were like that of a COBRA. Apart from keeping a DATELINE of global history, I was a constant MONITOR of The NATION and gave oppressive regimes THE PUNCH they deserved. For all these, I received OVATION...

  Over 5,000 youths have been engaged, under the various empowerment programmes in the last six years of the restoration government in Bayelsa State, the State Commissioner for Youth Development, Chief Collins Cocodia, has said. According to him, the state government was collaborating with the African Tide Union (ATU), an...

    Budgit has decried the masking of several opaque administrative items as capital projects in the 2018 budget. It stated that such action was just to shore up the percentage of the capital component in the budget. A recent analysis by the company shows that approximately N744.48 billion or...

.,..Urges citizens to vote out APC in Osun A leading governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Engr Fatai Akinbade, has described the political doggedness and resilience of Chief Ebenezer Babatope as being part of the major plank upon which the nation's democracy...

The Lagos State Government has confirmed the death of Mr. Deji Tinubu, the Special Adviser on Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives. The Government in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, expressed “shock and disbelief’ over the sudden death of Tinubu and has reached out...

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has said that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) has been short-changing Nigerians in its remittances to the Federation Account for over five years. The Forum said at the time of high global oil prices that averaged $110 per barrel, NNPC’s remittances to the Federation...

  The attention of the Executive Governor of Plateau State, Rt. Hon. Simon Bako Lalong has been drawn to the news making the rounds, particularly in the Social Media that “parts of Riyom, Barkin Ladi and Bokkos Local Government Areas have been carved out for the creation of colonies for...

The Senate on Thursday gave the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) seven days to end lingering scarcity of petrol and clear queues in filling stations across the country. This followed a unanimous adoption of report of the Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) on the fuel crisis in the country, at...

    The Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, and Founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Tony Elumelu, has stressed the need for global organisations and multinational institutions to support the much-needed growth in the African continent; adding that ultimately, such growth will affect the world positively. Elumelu, who pointed...

  Lawyer and human right activist, Mr.Festus Keyamo (SAN), has asked the Federal Government to release to the public the report of the investigation panel set up to probe the suspended Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mounir Gwarzo. Keyamo made the request in a letter dated January 24,...