PDP senators vow to withdraw support for Saraki if Amaechi is confirmed

Amaechi is held in contempt by the PDP Senate over the lost of WIKE ABUJA — Senators belonging to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and their All Progressives Congress, APC, were, yesterday, preparing for a showdown over different positions on the confirmation of two of 16 remaining ministerial nominee...

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Nigerian Senate rejects N64 bn ​for ​ Abuja airport

The Senate on Wednesday kicked against the N64 billion contract for the construction of a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The Senate, at its plenary declared that the contract sum ​wa​s “too high...

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Army declares 100 B'Haram wanted - Posters carrying photographs of wanted Boko Haram

The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, on Wednesday in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, launched the circulation of large posters carrying photographs of wanted Boko Haram terrorists including the supposed leader of the insurgents, Abubakar Sheka...

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Breaking News: House Of Rep Moves Against EFCC

Following the allegation of non-remittance of sized fund and forfeiture of properties worth over N1 trillion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the House of Representatives has ordered its standing committee to commence investigation into the ca...

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No Member Of The Assembly, Not Even Me Were Sacked - Rivers Assembly Speaker

I Wasn't Sacked By Tribunal - Rivers Assembly Speaker   Ikuinyi-Owaji Ibani, the speaker of the Rivers state House of Assembly said the election petition tribunal did not sack him from offi...

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Vacancy - Communications Officer Needed At Cuso International

Employer: Cuso InternationalThe CompanyCuso International is a North American leading international development agency that works through volunteers to overcome poverty since more than 50 yea...

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Stop Attacking Judiciary, Peterside Tells Wike, PDP

Dr. Dakuku Peterside, the All Progressives Congress gubernatorial candidate in Rivers state has advised Governor Nyesom Wike and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party to discontinue onslaught on the judicia...

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SEE What Caused The Delay In Corps Members’ Allowance

The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has explained what caused the delay in the payment of corps members’ allowance.The Nation reports that the NYSC named reasons for the delay in a statement made on Wednesday, October 28, in Abuja.According to the NYSC management, challenges arising from failed bank transaction and the inability of the settlement centre to immediately reprocess for payment caused the del...

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How Nominee Survived Petition To Steal Show At Ministerial Screening

The Senate today, October 28, concluded the ministerial screening as five nominees answered questions raised on the floor of the House.The five ministerial nominees who were screened today, brings the total number of nominees screened to ...

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Buhari In India For 4-Day Working Visit

Some hours after departing Nigeria in one of the Presidential jets via the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari arrived New Delhi, India ...

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Vacancy - Finance Assistant Needed At Cuso International

Employer: Cuso International The CompanyCuso International is a North American leading international development agency that works through volunteers to overcome poverty since more than 50 yea...

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SHOCKING REVELATION: Soldiers Reveal What Scares Boko Haram

Soldiers Reveal What Scares Boko Haram... Some soldiers of Nigerian army who are fighting with insurgents in Baga have said that they are not very comfortable with the use of artiller...

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Fuel Scarcity Worsen As Petroleum Depot Stop Sale Of Products In Rivers

Another round of shortage of petroleum products has hit Port Harcourt, Rivers state, even when the strike by the National Union of Petroleum Gas (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) was called off a week ag...

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Breaking News: Former Cross River Deputy Governor Dies

Chief Matthias Offoboche, the former deputy governor of Cross River state in the second republic and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party  is dead, according to family source.The octogenarian elder statesman passed away on Sunday, October 25, The Guardian reports.Confirming his death on Tuesday, October 27, Juliana Offoboche, wife of the deceased and former director of public prosecution in Cross River said he has been having some...

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Job - Human Resource Assistant Needed At Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria (CIPM)

Employer: Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria (CIPM)The CompanyChartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria (CIPM) - Vacancy information for a Human Resource Assistant position in Lagos.Job Title:  Human Resource AssistantLocation: Ikeja, Lago...

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Group Raises Alarm Over APC's Plot To Destabilise Bayelsa

The Movement for the Actualisation of Egalitarian Society (MAES) has raised the alarm over the alleged plot of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva, to destabilize Bayelsa state to avoid defeat in the upcoming governorship electi...

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Bail-Out Funds: Benue Workers Protest Non-Payment

There was drama in Benue state yesterday, October 27, as state workers drove away members of the state House of Assembly and their consultants who were out to the 23 local government areas of the state for a staff verification exerci...

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Job Opening... Olam International Limited Graduate Sales Trainee Recruitment

Employer: Olam International LimitedThe CompanyOlam International Limited is a leading company in the Agricultural and Packaged Foods sector in Nigeria and has been the leading exporter in Nigeria's non-oil sector in the last several years.We are recruiting to fill the position of:Job Title: Olam Sales Trai...

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Arsenal Chamberlain and Walcott injured in League Cup defeat

Arsenal lex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott injured in League Cup defeat  Arsenal lost England pair Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott to injury during their 3-0 League Cup fourth-round loss at second-tier Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesda...

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MTN Nigeria fined $5.2 billion for failing to register users

The most lucrative subsidiary, in Nigeria, MTN Group, has been fined $5.2 billion for failing to disconnect millions of unregistered cellphone subscribers. The Nigerian Communications Commission confirmed the penalty based on 200,000 naira ($1,000) for each of 5.1 million cellphone SIM cards that had not been registered and should have been disconnected by an August deadlin...

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278 firms partake in NNPC’s first open crude oil sales biding

Indigenous oil trading companies led by Forte Oil, MRS, Eterna Plc and Niger Delta Petroleum Resources Ltd dominated the list of bidding companies. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday opened bids submitted by 278 companies consisting largely of indigenous oil trading firms vying to secure term contract for the sale and purchase of Nigerian crude oil grade...

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NNPC to cut crude deals to boost transparency and hit corruption

Nigeria's state oil firm NNPC started auctioning annual crude grades on live television on Tuesday and vowed to cut contract holders by a third as part of a drive to boost transparency at an institution hit by corruptio...

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Gowon faults Buhari over deadline day to end Boko Haram on December

Gowon tell Buhari,- no person can confidently talk about the particular time a military operation would end on Boko Haram. A former military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, on Tuesday faulted President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian military over the December deadline for ending the Boko Haram insurgenc...

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Election nullification, judicial gang-up against me – Wike

How they gang-up against me – Wike PORT HARCOURT : Governor Nyesom Wike has described the nullification of his election by the Election Petition Tribunal as a gang up against him and the people of the state arguing that the the judiciary was setting a dangerous precedent in the country with the way it had gone about elections in Rivers stat...

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You can’t stop tribunal, S-Court tells Wike

Why Wike lose at the tribunal, S-Court tells Wike ABUJA — Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, yesterday, lost his bid to use the Supreme Court to oust the judgment of the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that sacked him from office last week Saturda...

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