SOUTH Africans are beginning to come to terms with the mortality of their first black president who is revered as the father of the “Rainbow Nation” multi-race democracy. They are ready to bid Nelson Mandela bye. But they also want his family...

• Says PDP not against any member

“CHANCES of Nigeria clinging the ticket to be a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council now depend on the success it would make out from its current war against terrorism.”

This was the...

CHEVRON has unveiled plans to auction its stake in Oil Mining Leases (OMLs) 83 and 85 offshore Nigeria.

The oil fields are situated in shallow water offshore Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta and have reserves of about 250 million barrels of oil...

SPEAKER of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Eugene Odoh, has announced that the lawmakers passed a total of four bills out of six received and resolved 17 motions and six resolutions during the second session of the fifth Assembly.

Giving a...

OGUN State government has declared June 12 a public holiday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential election believed to have been won by its indigene, the late Chief M.K.O Abiola.

This is contained in a statement...

ALLEGING highhandedness, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that the recent  proscription order  on Boko Haram and Ansaru though  desirable in  tackling the terrorist organisations, violates the country’s ...

THERE are indications that the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) will Monday release licences to seven of the 10 National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) estimated at N1.2 trillion, which have been put up for sale by the Federal Government.

The...

• Kwara chapter denies alleged hijack plot

POISED to ensure a more united political family, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said yesterday that its renewed commitment to issues of discipline and party loyalty would make it...

THE FRSC Sunday began a nationwide special patrol as part of strategies to reduce road accidents during the rains.

A statement issued by Mr. Jonas Agwu, the FRSC’s Public Education Officer, said the weeklong exercise, tagged “Operation...

THE Senator representing Abia Central and Chairman Senate Committee on Gas Resources, Nkechi Nwogu has advocated collaboration between the executive and legislature from the preparatory stage of the appropriation bill to minimise the distortion...

 

THE Nigeria High Commissioner to Kenya, Ambassador Akin Oyateru, has hinged the deportation of Nigerian businessman, Anthony Chinedu who was among other six Nigerians deported from Kenya, on administrative lapses.

Throwing light on the...

BY virtue of holding the portfolio of Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union (AU), Nigeria can help bridge the security gaps that have become apparent in the test running of the African Peace and Security Architecture in readiness...

THE Federal Government might need about $795 million (N125.6 billion) to ring the entire country’s states capitals in its quest for broadband deployment.

This estimate is contained in the 109-page document titled: Nigeria’s National Broadband...

OVER one year after she lost her husband, Prof. Celestine Onwuliri, in the June 2012 Dana Air disaster in Lagos, his widow and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Adaku Onwuliri, said no compensation has been given to her family by...

• Youth, elders do not complement each other

• Self comes before nation, me before others

ELDER statesman and Nigeria’s former permanent representative at the United Nations, Alhaji Maitama Sule, says the nation has found itself in an...

FOLLOWING the detention of Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s flight by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) last weekend, the Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Festus Ebea, said the Edo people demand apology from the agency for...