Community Fights Shell in UK Court Hearing
Hearing on the compensation claim brought by about 15,000 members of the Bodo community in Rivers State against the oil giant, Shell, began Tuesday in a United Kingdom court. ...
Chime Impounds Aero Helicopter for Unauthorised Landing
Apparently afraid of another possible invasion of the Enugu State Government House, the state Governor, Sullivan Chime, yesterday ordered the seizure of an aero contractor helicopter that was said to...
External Reserves Climb Marginally to $38.142bn
Nigeria’s beleaguered external reserves have appreciated slightly by $292 million this month to $38.142 billion on Monday. The latest value of the external reserves represents a marginal accretion of...
Nigeria’s Capital Importation Portfolio Hits $40.4bn
Nigeria's Capital Importation portfolio valued at about $40.4 billion between 2012 and February 2014, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). According to the data released Tuesday, portfolio...
57-yr-old vice principal defiles 12-yr-old student
ADO EKITI — A 57-year-old vice -principal of a school, Mr. Taiwo Ajayi, has been caught defiling a 12-year-old student of his school. According to a police statement in Ado...
Detectives grill Gov Nyako over genocide allegation against FG
ABUJA— Detectives from force headquarters, yesterday, grilled Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State for four hours at Government House, Yola, over a recent memo he sent to the Northern Governors...
N10bn jet scandal: Court denies stopping Madueke’s probe
ABUJA — Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, denied granting an interim injunction that stopped the Public Accounts Committee, PAC, of the House of Representatives...
Dangote makes CNBC’s top 25 tycoons
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Group and Africa’s richest man, has been ranked one of the 25 people that have had most profound impact on business and finance worldwide...
Nigerian Hollywood Actor, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Makes Film About His Black Self-Hating Childhood
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is one of the most recognizable Nigerian actors in Hollywood. You might not know his name, but I guarantee that you’ve seen him in one (or two or...
Aniomas and zoning: What they must do in 2015
AGREED, equity is fair, equity is justice. This is the pillar on which those from Delta North have hung their demand for the position of Delta State governor to be...