The Trump administration is closing a $600 million deal to permit the sale of a dozen highly sophisticated turboprop fighter planes to Nigeria to combat the Boko Haram Islamic terrorists despite the Nigerian air force’s repeated bombing of civilian targets. Within the next few weeks, the White House is expected to formally notify Congress of…
The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has deployed 25,000 personnel and 869 vehicles for a special patrol to enhance road safety during the forthcoming Easter celebrations. The deployment includes 267 motorcycles, 106 ambulances and 22 tow trucks for the special patrol exercise scheduled to run from April 13 to April 18. The spokesperson of the…
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony by His Excellency, Chief Willie M. Obiano, the Executive Governor of Anambra State for the Construction of Anambra Airport City Project between Anambra State Government, Orient Petroleum Resources Plc. and Elite International Investment Holding Limited, China Aviation Planning & Development Company Limited with Osike Synergy Nigeria Limited and Emsworth…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has stated that the State Government will set up a Trust Fund to cater for the needs of indigent clerics and some members of the laity. The governor explained that the Trust Fund will be a revolving scheme that will be managed by the leaders of the Christian Community…
No sooner Gov Nyesom Wike was sworn in as governor of Rivers State than he embarked on indiscriminate borrowing at cut-throat interest rate from Nigerian commercial banks. The borrowing spree was carried out irrespective of the fact that the matter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship Candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside contesting the emergence of…
The federal government is currently working on closing some of Nigeria’s 119 foreign missions, The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said though it is expensive to close a country’s embassy,it will be beneficial in the long run. Mr. Onyeama said at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja on Sunday that the reduction…
The new Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, will adhere strictly to due process and not consider political patronage as a criterion for awarding contracts. Speaking while on a project site tour of NDDC projects in Ondo State, the Commission’s Managing Director, Nsima U. Ekere, expressed dismay at the attitude of the contractor handling the three-storey…
Four committees of the House of Representatives on Tuesday jointly expressed dissatisfaction over the implementation of the Federal Ministry of Transportation’s 2016 Budget. They are Committees on Aviation; Land Transport; Maritime Safety and Administration; Ports, Harbours and Waterways. The committees, which visited the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja on oversight function, threatened to give zero allocation…
The Ibadan Zonal office of the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Monday, 3rd April arraigned one John Ojekorede Ojemuyiwa alongside his company, Digitpro Engineering Technology Ltd before Justice A.O . Oladimeji of the Osun State High Court sitting in Ede, Osun State on a two-count charge bordering on stealing and giving of gratification to…
The President of the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents(NCMDLCA) Mr Lucky Amiwero has blamed the Federal Government for the sharp drop in the level of imports into Nigeria in recent times. He said that government was responsible for the anomaly through the fiscal and monetary policies of the Federal Ministry of…
