DPO Rape Saga: Police Panel Makes Headway in Investigations
As the panel set up by the Lagos State Police Command continues to investigate the Onikan Divisional Police Officer (DPO), more facts have emerged in the DPO’s rape saga. ...
NIGERIA: Ortom Rules out Sabotage in Kaduna Airport Fire
The supervising Minister of Aviation, Mr. Samuel Ortom, Tuesday ruled out sabotage as the likely cause of the fire incident at the control tower of the Kaduna Airport, which paralysed...
ICIR Builds Capacity for Nigerian Journalists
International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) in Abuja is to embark on a project that will help journalists across the country to conduct...
Port Harcourt Assumes UNESCO World Book Capital
Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, will today assume its status as the UNESCO World Book Capital 2014, the first country in the sub-Saharan Africa to have won the designation...
About 71% of Nigerians optimistic of free and fair polls in 2015 – Survey
ABUJA — Notwithstanding the fears being expressed concerning the fate of 2015 general elections, there are indications that over 71 per cent of Nigerians are optimistic that the Independent National...
Germany Assisting Nigeria in Power Generation, Says Derus
Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lagos, Mr. Michael Derus, in this interview with Zacheaus Somorin, said that his country has been making several efforts in assisting...
NIGERIA: Court Strikes out Criminal Charges against NAICOM Boss
A Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out a criminal charge filed by the federal government against Commissioner for Insurance and Chief Executive Officer of the National Insurance Commission...
Nyanya Bomb Blast: Nda-Isaiah Condemns Attack, Tasks FG on National Security
Piqued by the incessant killings in the country especially the recent bomb blast in Nyanya, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant...
Telecom activities may keep Nigeria’s rebased GDP green
Information and Communications Technology, ICT, once again, showed its economy- boosting potentials when the statistician-general of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale recently released the rebased Gross Domestic Product, GDP data...
National conference can’t transform Nigeria — Nwabueze
UMUAHIA—FOREMOST constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, has said that he was working hard to salvage the on-going national conference to give Nigerians a new constitution. Prof. Nwabueze said that the...