Fuel crisis: GTBank announces early closure of branches
Our branches will close at 1pm from tomorrow. Apologies for the inconvenience. Pls tell someone and RT. pic.twitter.com/O0Edkpqqr2 — Guaranty Trust Bank (@gtbank) May 24, 2015
View ArticleSenate Presidency: Group rallies support for Lawan
Ahead of the June inauguration of the 8th National Assembly, a rights group under the aegis of ‘New Nigerian Initiative Vanguard,’ NNIV, on Sunday drummed support for the candidature of Senator Ahmed...
View ArticleLagos Chamber seeks removal of fuel subsidy
AS fuel shortage cripples business activities across Nigeria, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI has advised the incoming administration of Major- General Muhammadu Buhari to deregulate...
View ArticleThe David Cameron story
David Cameron has proved the doubters in his own party and beyond wrong by winning a majority of his own at the 2015 general election. When he was elected Conservative leader in 2005, he was seen as...
View ArticleCan Buhari fulfill the naira-dollar parity promise?
A few days to the just concluded general elections, the then All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) made a solemn promise that if the Nigerian...
View ArticleEbonyi: LP, APGA collapse into APC as Oyegun, Onu receive decampees
Over 20,000 members of Labour Party, LP, the All Progressives Congress Grand Alliance, APGA, and a large chunk of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday defected to the All Progressives Congress,...
View ArticleFuel scarcity: Telecoms, banking and aviation industries hit
Chronic fuel scarcity in the country has brought phone firms, banks and flights to a standstill on Monday, just four days before the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration as president of...
View ArticleBayelsa community commends Jonathan over $500m oil project
People of Agge Federated community in Ekeremor local government area of Bayelsa state, have commended the out-going President, Goodluck Jonathan for the establishment of $500million oil and gas...
View ArticleAdamu mua’zu: From game changer to game destroyer
When he was brought in as the National Chairman of the PDP, he was knick named the ‘game changer’. In just about a year, he has descended from the Olympian height of a game changer to the abyss of a...
View ArticleKogi Judge abducted, police orderly killed
Gunmen have attacked and kidnapped a Kogi State High Court Judge, Justice Samuel Obayomi of Ebogogo High Court in Adavi Local Government Area, killing his police orderly in the process. The orderly,...
View ArticleWe won’t leave Kashamu’s house – NDLEA
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has said it will remain in the house of Ogun State Senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu, until he submits himself to the court for trial. The agency maintained...
View ArticleCertificate forgery: Forum faults court sacking of Benue Rep-elect
BENUE Youth Forum has faulted judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja that sacked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representatives member-elect for Ado/Okpokwu/Ogbadibo federal...
View ArticleBoko Haram: UNICEF urges Buhari to protect girls, women
AS GENERAL Mohammadu Buhari prepares to take over government from outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan this Friday, United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has called on the incoming All Progressives...
View ArticleJonathan didn’t undermine us, says EFCC
Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday debunked a report that President Goodluck Jonathan incapacitated the commission with poor funding. A national daily (not Nigerian Pilot) had reported yesterday that...
View Article2015 polls: God used Jonathan to shame false prophets – Kuku
SPECIAL Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Hon. Kingsley Kuku has said the main reason why God divinely brought President Goodluck Jonathan into politics was purposely to rescue Nigeria...
View ArticleGaza militants fire rocket; Israel responds with airstrikes
GAZA CITY: Israeli fighter jets carried out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip early today just hours after a rocket was fired at southern Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said. Israeli Defense Forces...
View ArticleFive soldiers martyred, 63 militants killed in military operations
Five soldiers have embraced martyrdom while 63 insurgents killed in separate military operations across the country, ministries of defense and interior announced on Wednesday. A statement issued by the...
View ArticleIhedioha assumes Reps Speakership May 29
Ahead of the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly in June, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, will now complete the 7th Assembly. This is because the Speaker and...
View ArticleCourt asked to stop Buhari’s inauguration
Barely 48 hours to change of baton, a civil society organisation, the Incorporated Trustees of Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative, yesterday, applied to the Federal...
View ArticleSenate passes Great Green Wall Bill
Senate yesterday passed the Great Green Wall Bill for the establishment of an Act to Establish the National Agency for the Great Green Wall aimed at checking desertification and drought in certain...
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