FG Wage Bill Gulps N1.5 Trillion
The director general of the Budget Office of the Federation, Dr. Bright Okogu, has disclosed that the federal government's wage bill has gulped N1.5 trillion for the year, just as the 2011 ...
View ArticleHow Jonathan Settled Shell, Etete Oil Block Rift
But for the intervention of President Goodluck Jonathan, the dispute between Malabu Oil and Gas as well as Shell Petroleum Development Company over the operation of Oil Prospecting Lease 245, ...
View ArticleSenate Orders Customs to Reverse Auction of NIPP Containers
The Senate, through the chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Senator Philip Aduda, yesterday ordered the Nigeria Customs Service to retrieve all 17 containers belonging to the National Integrated ...
View ArticleWhy Boko Haram Problem Persists
A Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ibadan, Professor Isaac Albert, has attributed the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria and other security challenges in Africa to lack of ...
View ArticleExplosion Rocks Mosque in Delta State
In what was suspected to be reprisal attack, a powerful explosion yesterday rocked a mosque in Sapele, the administrative headquarters of Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State as worshippers ...
View ArticleCleric Urges Prayer Against Insecurity
Nigerians have been urged to continue to pray for the peace and stability of the country in the face of the threatening wave of insecurity in the land. The diocesan head of Pentecostal Assemblies of ...
View ArticleFormer British Prime Minister Blair Visits South Sudan
Juba - The Former British Prime Minister and the Founder and Leader of Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) Tony Blair visited Juba yesterday where he met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nhial ...
View ArticleAtiku Skips Obasanjo in Protocols
THE lingering feud between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his vice president for eight years, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, reverberated as Atiku chose the occasion of the 1st Shehu Musa ...
View ArticleZuma Tells African Leaders to Dump West's Economic Models
South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, yesterday called on his counterparts on the continent to ditch economic models offshore and stick to home-grown economic ideas to pull Africa from the ...
View Article1,388 DDCMS, Several Components Stolen From INEC's Lagos Store
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday reported the theft of some of its Direct Data Capture Machines (DDCMs), Internal Hard Disks (HDDs) and computer batteries from its ...
View ArticleExplosions Hit Country's Flashpoint Jos City - Official
Several people were injured by two bomb explosions in Nigeria's central city of Jos on Saturday, a state government official said. "Two bombs have just exploded in Jos," Pam Ayuba, ...
View ArticleDurban Conference Delivers Breakthrough in International Community's...
press release Durban - Countries meeting in Durban, South Africa, have delivered a breakthrough on the future of the international community's response to climate change, whilst recognizing ...
View ArticleUN climate talks agree legal pact on global warming
DURBAN (Reuters) - Climate negotiators agreed a pact on Sunday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action ...
View ArticleDraft Climate Deal Dubbed a "Death Sentence for Africa"
DURBAN, South Africa - No one is happy late Friday at the very contentious U.N. climate talks that went into extra time on Saturday. As the lights flicker on a rainy night here, the partial power ...
View ArticleZimbabwe's president says he will not retire
Zimbabwe's 87-year-old president said Saturday he will not retire before proposed elections next year and will stay on also to lead the country against what he called a Western campaign for ...
View ArticleNZ wins South Africa 7s, beats host 31-26 in final
New Zealand broke away to score on the hooter and steal a 31-26 win over a heartbroken host in the South Africa Sevens rugby final on Saturday.The New Zealanders hacked the ball downfield with ...
View ArticleGunbattles target head of Libyan army in Tripoli, Libya
A Libyan gunman smiles as he holds his automatic machine gun inside Al-Katiba military base after it fall by the anti-Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi protesters few days ago, in Benghazi, Libya, on ...
View ArticleIndian fertiliser makers looking to buy mines in Africa
India News: New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Faced with increasing demand and rising cost of importing raw material, the Indian fertiliser industry is eying mineral assets in ...
View ArticleGeothermal expected to meet half of Kenya’s energy needs
Kenya plans to obtain half its electricity from geothermal by 2018, to meet rising demand and cushion against the uncertainty of ...
View ArticleJammeh sure of victory in Gambia poll
Gambians voted on Thursday in polls which some observers said were skewed in favour of long-time incumbent Yahya Jammeh, who heaped scorn on criticism that his regime is repressive. The main west ...
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