Month: January 2016

Toryila KAJO, Makurdi A cross section of Benue people thronged the streets of Makurdi the Benue state capital in jubilation over the decision of the Apex Court Abuja that upheld the victory of Governor Samuel Ortom as the winner of the April 2015 governorship election in the state. Youths, Okada riders, members of the All…

Police men and other paramilitary officials would soon be redeployed back to areas hitherto captured by the terrorist sect, Boko Haram but were recently liberated by the Nigerian Military troop, the Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahaman Dambazzau has said. The Minister, who was accompanied to Maiduguri by head of agencies under the Ministry of…

Nigerian phytho-medicinal researcher, Pharm. Ben Amodu who doubles as the Chief researcher in Halamin Herbal Products in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has reemphasized that herbal medicine could succeed where orthodox ones has failed in the treatment of both communicable and non communicable diseases. Amodu spoke to journalists in his office recently in Abuja. Dissatisfied…

Kano state government has accessed N1.7 billion Universal Basic Education, UBEC, counterpart funding and would soon use the money to renovate primary schools across the state. The state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje made this known while briefing journalists shortly before the commencement of the state weekly Executive Council meeting. He said the state government…

Commercial drivers within Kaduna metropolis are grumbling over the fixed rate of N1, 500 annually for the purchase of waste baskets which cost less than N200 in the market. Some drivers told nationalTRAIL Newspaper in Kaduna that the staff of the Kaduna State Ministry of Environment have been constantly harassing them to purchase the compulsory…

Twelve months after an Edo woman was arrested over allegations of money laundering using funds from trafficking of minors, a Nigerian businesswoman and fugitive from Edo state, Ms Franca Asemota is to be extradited to the United Kingdom to face criminal charges. The order to extradite Asemota to the UK was handed down by Justice…

Kaduna State Government has announced the composition of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the 12th-14th December 2015 clashes in Zaria between the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and the Nigerian Army. The judicial commission of inquiry established under Section 2 of the Kaduna State Commission of Inquiry Law, 1991, would be inaugurated next week. According…

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, has assured Nigerians that with the buy-in of major stakeholders in the Power sector, the newly inaugurated Monthly Leadership Meetings among operators will identify gaps, as well as collectively identify and proffering practical solutions to issues facing the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). The Minister…

The Joint Finance Team of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and its Joint Venture Partners, Chevron Nigeria Limited have clinched the prestigious Africa and Middle East Oil Deal of the Year Award 2015. The NNPC stated that the Thomson Reuters /PFI Magazine award is in recognition of the novel $1.2 bn multi-year drilling financing…

Nigerians are still wondering whether erstwhile Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, is still in the Police Force or not, having gone under soon after he was removed and shortly after a probe of his tenure was muted. While our correspondents report that contrary to earlier speculations that Lamorde fled…