“I have completed 20 new Silo Complexes spread across the country to store Millions of Metric tonnes of Rice, Millet, Bean, Maize, Cassava, Sorghum. These Strategic Reserve have a total storage capacity of 1.336 million metric tons (MT) [...]
April 25, 2016
Agriculture
Dangote To Build $8bn Oil Refinery – Another chapter will this year be opened in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, when business mogul Alhaji Aliko Dangote kicks off his plan to establish a refinery in the country. The [...]
Six doctors from the Nigerian Medical Association have died in a ghastly accident on their way to take part in the 56th annual general conference and delegates meeting in Sokoto. 6 Ekiti doctors die in auto crash. Photo: [...]
April 25, 2016
Incidents, Video
Former president Goodluck Jonathan, who is currently in the USA, has been honoured by the cities of Antioch and Lathrop in California for promoting peace and democracy in Africa. According to reports the award ceremony was held in Antioch, [...]
The victory of Muhammadu Buhari against Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general election was one many pundits never saw coming. Buhari, a retired major-general who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) polled a total [...]
Presidency spent N275,000,000 for the Vice President’s 2 bedroom Gate House. Church building cost N88,000,000 Mosque building cost N90,000,000 + In total Approximately 7 Billion Naira 6,270,910,184.9 88.7 % Payment Made to contractor yet not up to 50% work has [...]
A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has warned that the worst will happen if the Senate President, Bukola Saraki is removed from office, as the All Progressives Congress, APC, may “have the PDP [...]
The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of alleged complicity in the fuel supply crisis in the state. In a statement by the state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party said it [...]
April 25, 2016
Economy, Power
APC Governors – Most of the 23 states that got bailout cash from the federal government for the settlement of arrears of workers’ salaries and emoluments, diverted the funds for other purposes, thereby defeating the purpose of the government’s effort [...]
Iberia Airline – The foreign exchange scarcity has forced the Spanish airline, Iberia, to suspend flights to Nigeria from May 12, 2016. Though the national carrier of Spain attributed the decision to the dwindling passenger traffic on the [...]
Elombah has uncovered how the Imo State governor, Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha pilfered 20 billion Naira out of the N26 billion allocated to the State from the federal government bailout fund. According to official report, Imo State collected the [...]
Dele Momodu, the Publisher of Ovation magazine, speaks about President Muhammadu Buhari’s government as well as other issues in this interview with ’NONYE BEN-NWANKWO and GBENRO ADEOYE. What is your view on the state of the [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has made good his threat to deal with those blowing up oil installations in the Niger Delta like Boko Haram terrorists are being dealt as he has dispatched the nation’s service chiefs to the oil-rich region to [...]
By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—The governorship ambition of former Secretary to Edo State Government, SSG, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, weekend, received a boost following his adoption for the governorship race by past political office holders from [...]
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Bayelsa has sanctioned 16 filling stations in the state for engaging in various sharp practices. Mr Asuquo Antai, Operations Controller of DPR in Bayelsa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa [...]
By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI— Leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, says it is no longer comfortable with what they called “the level of internal crisis rocking the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.” [...]
*Destroyed GTBank documents show how Saraki transferred $ 3m to US By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — The embattled Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has queried the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to exculpate the Chairman of [...]
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor, Henry Umoru, Emman Ovuakporie & Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA— Pressures by the Presidency on the National Assembly to rewrite the 2016 budget and include critical projects left out in the appropriation bill as passed were at the [...]
Dr. Joseph Wayas served as Senate President twice in the Second Republic when he brought flair and fashion to his political carriage. Wayas, 74 and obviously weighed down by age is rarely seen on the political terrain these days, preferring [...]
By Innocent Anaba A coalition of some civil society organisations has advised the 13 Vice Chancellors of federal universities in the country who were wrongly appointed by the Federal Government last February to take the path of honour by resigning their [...]
By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA — Following the takeover of liberated and recaptured territories from the Nigerian military by the Police, as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari, security authorities told Vanguard, weekend, that more than 10, 000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, [...]
*Enugu Fulani community leader intervenes By Chinenyeh Ozor Confusion has enveloped Ukpabi Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Enugu State, following an alleged attempt by Fulani herdsmen to invade the community and displace residents for cattle-grazing. About 500 Fulani [...]
By DELE SOBOWALE Buhari came into office with an agenda for change. This was a compelling and ultimately victorious slogan….” Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the NATION’s Forum on the Economy, Thursday, 8 April 2016. Buhari Sweltering afternoons, usually spent [...]