Nigeria's lower legislative chamber, the house of representatives will today undertake a physical vote to determine if the 3,500 soldiers deployed to Edo state for the governorship elections should be recalled or not. Tempers rose at the house yesterday after the majority Peoples’ Democratic Party members tried to shout down a member of the Action Congress of Nigeria who complained about the troop deploymen ...

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The Federal Executive Council has approved the petroleum industry bill to be forwarded to the National Assembly. At the end of the council’s weekly meeting, the minister of petroleum resources Mrs Dieziani Allison-Madueke said that the new bill will ensure the independence of regulators in the oil and gas sector and see to the unbundling of the NNPC. ...

There’s certainly no controversy on who should monitor the elections in Edo state as a civil society organization project swift count plans to deploy 834 observers for Saturday’s governorship polls. Addressing journalists in Abuja, the first co chair of the organization, Mr. Dafe Akpedeyesays eight hundred observers will be deployed to selected polling units across the eighteen local government areas of the ...

The Ekiti state governor has denied the rumours of sacking some principals that failed the examinations conducted for teachers last year. Governor Fayemi stressed that the teachers’ development assessment programme is to improve the education sector which the state is renowned for. He also emphasized that rather than sack the teachers, most of them have been elevated but others have been encouraged to give ...

The Director-General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Dr Joseph Odumodu has declared that from the 16th of July, fake goods will be cleared off Nigerian markets. While addressing a news conference on the plans and strategies for sanitizing products importation, manufacturing and marketing in the country, the DG said SON will close down any market where enforcement is resisted. He further anno ...

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Anyim Pius Anyim, has inaugurated a 10-man presidential committee on the production of Nigeria’s Centenary Book, ahead of the nation’s 100th amalgamation anniversary. The SGF said that the task before the committee which has Prof.Tekena Tamuno as Chairman was of great importance, as Nigeria’s existence as one entity would be 100 years on Jan. 1, 2 ...

In a bid to harness and further develop the agricultural potential of Delta state, the state government has initiated plans to re-position its agricultural sector to be at the forefront in national food production via the agricultural transformation agenda . The transformation agenda in the oil rich state is aimed at growing the state's economy beyond oil, as well as empower its unemployed youths. In view o ...

An official of KPMG, an audit firm, has revealed that the inefficiency of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) in the payment of demurrage on imported fuel at the ports has cost the country $65 million. The official of the audit firm, Mr Dimeji Salaudin disclosed this when he appeared before the Senate Committee investigating the management of fuel subsidy in the country. Mr Salaudin also told the ...

Elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark has urged the 19 governors of the northern states in the country to go into their communities and identify the youth and groups that have caused the recent security impasse in the region so that their differences can be resolved. At a forum to mark the first year in office of President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Clark said resolving the security issue, now a ...