archiveJune 11, 2018

Nigeria’s strongest selling point remains an “intellectually aggressive and economically ambitious’’ populace that always seeks self-improvement and self-actualisation in any part of the world, President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday in Rabat, Morocco. In an audience with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco, Saadeddine Othmani, at the Royal Guest...

The Senate Committee on Industry has called for the return of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to the nation’s ports. The chairman of the committee, Sam Egwu, made the call on Monday, during an oversight function to SON’s offices and laboratories in Lagos. He said the absence of the...

    The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola on Monday told Power Distribution Companies (DISCOs) to work towards ending the estimated billing system, which he said is subjective and prone to abuse. To this end, the Minister urged the electricity distribution companies to access the...

      Renowned lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN) has criticized the sale of nomination forms by political parties to candidates who are seeking to contest elections on their platforms. Falana said a court has declared such fees for nomination forms as illegal, in a case he...

    Former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential hopeful of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar has warned against what he called a consistent pattern of departure from constitutional due process to tendencies of authoritarianism. In his statement to mark the 25th anniversary of June 12,Atiku said that there...

  The wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has commended efforts of the wives of the 18 chairmen of local government areas of the state for better healthcare services at the grassroots in the state. Akeredolu made the commendation on Monday at flag-off ceremony of First Round of...

  The Federal Government has declared June 15 and 18 as public holiday to celebrate the 2018 Eid-El-Fitr. The Minister of Interior, retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau, made the declaration on Monday in Abuja on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement issued by Dr. M. Umar, the Permanent...

    The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Moji Adeyeye, has said the agency has seized not less than 35 containers of Tramadol at various ports in the country. Adeyeye disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

  Trading activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) started the week on a positive note, as the market All-Share Index (ASI) inched up by 0.45 Per cent to 38,844.32 points, as investors resumed bargain hunting. Accordingly, the Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date gains improved to 1.94 per cent and 1.57 per...

  **We must keep in mind, that oil and gas are only guaranteed as today’s resources, and not necessarily tomorrow’s. We cannot bet on the fact that even a few decades from now, these natural resources will be as central to the global economy as they are today.   ADDRESS...