GLADYS NWEKE Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has stated that Nigeria will only experience peace and development when the several lies affecting her functionality are dismantled. He also called for immediate reforms where states are treated as federating units and not departments of the Federal Government. In his acceptance speech after receiving the award…
The Nigerian Community in South Africa has confirmed attacks and looting of Nigerian-owned businesses in Pretoria West on Saturday. Ikechukwu Anyene, president, Nigeria Union, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone from Pretoria, South Africa, that the attacks began at 4.00 a.m. He said the union had reported the incident to the Nigerian…
Battling multiple bombers strapped with suicide vests, Nigerian troops and civilian self-defense fighters on Friday repelled the fiercest Boko Haram extremist attack in months on the key northeastern city of Maiduguri. Nine bombers and two civilians were killed, according to witnesses, soldiers and police. The United Nations said the attackers targeted refugees in the city…
Petrol subsidy is back. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has been offsetting for months the difference between the landing costs of petrol and the pump price. In series of interviews with knowledgeable players in the sector, NAN can report authoritatively that the landing costs per litre of petrol is higher than the price Nigerians pay…
The luxury bus that plunged into a river at Owode-Elede, Ikorodu, being removed with the help of a crane, in Lagos State on Friday photo/Babatunde Atolagbe/BJO/NAN A luxury bus packed with passengers and believed to be traveling from the eastern part of the country plunged into a river at Owode-Elede, Ikorodu in Lagos State on Friday….
A Federal High Court in Lagos today heard how Winners Chapel, a church owned by Pastor David Oyedepo got N35million out of the N19.7billion stolen from the accounts of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). The money was paid to the church on the instruction of Major-General Emmanuel Atewe, a former commander of…
The Nigeria Customs Service Eastern Marine Command Port Harcourt and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps [NSCDC] are to synergise for effective performance in the discharge of their duties in the state. This synergy followed the courtesy call by the new commandant of the NSCDC Mohammed Haruna to the Comptroller Eastern Maritime Command Usman …
The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday affirmed a former Governor of Borno State, Ali Sheriff, as the authentic Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The court set aside the judgement delivered by Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court in Rivers State who recognized former Kaduna State…
By Gladys Nweke Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, says the State Government is ready to partner investors in revamping moribund state owned agro-firms as a way of creating employment and boost food production. Speaking during an inspection visit to Siat Nigeria Limited (FormerRison palm) at Ubima recently, Chief Wike said that through commercial agriculture…
The Central Bank of Nigeria said on Thursday three key sectors of the economy received the largest foreign exchange allocations between December 2016 and January.2017 The CBN said out of a total of $2.83 billion disbursed during the two months to critical sectors of the economy, manufacturing, agriculture and raw materials got the lion’s shares….
