SOKU Oil field; Bayelsa Govt faults Rivers state N17bn claim
As controversy trailing the ownership of disputed Soku Oil wells rages on, Bayelsa State government on Tuesday said there was no iota of truth in Rivers state government’s claim that…
Compass Newspaper Managing Director, Aide Shot
Managing Director of Nigerian Compass Newspaper, Sina Kawonise and a security detail attached to him were on Tuesday shot by gunmen suspected to be armed robbers in Osun state.Mr. Kawonnise…
Lagos Assembly shot down over Ikuforiji`s graft trial
Lagos State House of Assembly has been experiencing a lull in its legislative activities as the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji is arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
Currency Counterfeiter Jailed 25 Years
Justice Babatunde O. Quadri of the Federal High Court sitting in Gombe on November 5, 2012, sentenced Abdullahi Bello who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,…
NEXIM Bank staff drag colleague to CBN
Staffs of the Nigerian Export-Import (NEXIM) Bank under the auspices of Bankers Against Indiscipline have dragged their colleague and Head of Risk Management of the Bank, Mrs Sarattu Umar to…
The Trouble With Chinua Achebe
Aging writers are generally expected to write autobiographies that sum up their writing careers, experiences that, hopefully, could guide future writers in the writing arts. In that light, many have…
Proshare launches TV Web Portal & Corporate Service
WebTV Nigeria is Nigeria’s Online Business Television & Video Service, founded in May 2011 as an add-on complement to the financial market information service of Proshare, Nigeria’s leading financial Information…
Lessons from Ondo election
The spin by Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) apparatchiks notwithstanding, the triumph of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State in the October 20 election was a kick in the mouth…
PPP is key to global food security
Editor: At the recent World Food Prize Symposium in the U.S., I shared an important truth: Africa’s farmers are not needy victims. They have something to offer the world –…
CJN rebuff Governor`s plea to swear in Appeal Court Judge
The oath taking ceremony of some Court of Appeal Justices at the Supreme Court complex in Abuja on Monday was marred by the discrimination meted out to one of the…