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May 3, 2013
Many Aircraft Operate Illegally in Nigeria

 

April 10, 2013
First Mobile Phone Call Was Placed 40 Years Ago

On April 3, 1973 — exactly 40 years from today — Motorola employee Marty Cooper made the first mobile phone call.

February 13, 2013
Nigeria's renovated railway

 

 

December 21, 2012
Nigeria- $1 billion Sovereign wealth fund to start investment in 2013

Two months after its inauguration by President Goodluck Jonathan, the much discussed Sovereign Wealth Fund is making progress towards becoming fully operational. The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) will start all the securities investing by March 2013, according to Uche Orji, the newly appointed head of the NSIA.

December 12, 2012
Finally, FG, Labour Resolve PHCN Workers Dispute

The lingering labour issues between electricity workers and the federal government which began since 2010, has finally been resolved.

The resolution meeting which ended at about 11.20pm yesterday took place at the office of the Secretary to the federal government, Anyim Pius Anyim.

The parties agreed that total accrued pension as at June 30, 2007 shall be paid in accordance with the PHCN 2010 conditions of service.

December 12, 2012
Monopoly Lagos version launched in Nigeria

The Lagos state government has backed the Monopoly project  The first African city edition of the famous board game Monopoly has been launched in Lagos. The Nigerian metropolis is one of the fast-growing cities in the world.

The board's layout was unveiled at an event in Lagos City Hall, with the manmade Banana Island named as the upmarket equivalent of Mayfair in the London edition.

November 30, 2012
GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has asked the Federal Government to downsize the labour force

 

GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has asked the Federal Government to downsize the labour force if it must achieve anything meaningful as far as economic resuscitation is concerned in the country.

November 26, 2012
German software maker enters Nigeria’s N960bn market

 

November 20, 2012
Alison-Madueke considers pouring oil on troubled waters

 

Nigeria is considering watering down proposed changes to the fiscal regime for international oil companies operating offshore after warnings that they will drive away investment and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.

November 10, 2012
Pension Fund Hits N2.9trn, May Surpass FG Budget by December

 

After just eight years, Nigeria’s pension fund is already N2.9 trillion richer and before the year runs out, the fund could be in the region of N3 trillion.

November 7, 2012
US Elections 2012 – Historic Second Term For President Obama

Obama’s tweet “four more years”

October 20, 2012
Nigeria: Sambo Receives Accenture's Blueprint On Police Funding

 

Vice-President Namadi Sambo, who is the chairman of the sub-committee on Police Reform Committee (PRC), Thursday received a presentation from Accenture, a global management consulting firm, on how it (Accenture) intends to develop a framework which would be used by the Nigerian Police to improve on its performance as well as to raise funds.

October 19, 2012
Government urged to raise awareness on Freedom of Information Act (FOI)

 

THE Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) has been enjoined to increase efforts in creating awareness and enlightenment among public institutions and within the civil service about the superiority of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act to other laws, especially the Official Secret Act.

October 13, 2012
State Grid Corporation of China: Waiting for the World’s Famed Largest Power Utility’s Nigeria Debut

 

October 11, 2012
President Jonathan’s 2013 Budget Speech on 10th October 2012 before the National Assembly

“Fiscal Consolidation with Inclusive Growth,

Federal Republic of Nigeria 2013 Budget Speech “Fiscal Consolidation with Inclusive Growth, Delivered by: His Excellency Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Before: A Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja. Wednesday, 10th October 2012

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October 1, 2012
Treatment of female Nigerian pilgrims embarrasses Saudis at the start of hajj

 

September 19, 2012
FG: Indicted Recipients to Be Stripped of National Honours

President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the National Honours Committee to compile a list of persons conferred with National Honours whose integrity have come to question since their investiture.

August 30, 2012
Go farm, young Nigerian!

From farm to factory, to fork to fashion, there are investment opportunities in Nigeria’s agricultural value chain. To be sure, the future of global food security is in unfarmed African lands.

July 7, 2012
Nigeria:Supreme Court Unseats Eyiboh as Mrs Okadigbo, Ewuga Triumph

The Supreme Court yesterday declared Lady Margarie Okadigbo, wife of the late former Senate President, Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, as the validly nominated candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the Anambra North senatorial district. It also pronounced her winner of the election conducted for the district by the Independent National Electoral Commission during the 2011 general elections.

The Supreme Court yesterday declared Lady Margarie Okadigbo, wife of the late former Senate President, Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, as the validly nominated candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the Anambra North senatorial district. It also pronounced her winner of the election conducted for the district by the Independent National Electoral Commission during the 2011 general elections.

 

July 6, 2012
Akwa Ibom’s Budget of Infrastructural Development

 

With Akwa Ibom State, we have finally found a budget that allocates more than 70 per cent to capital expenditure – the recommended minimum to achieve accelerated and meaningful development in an underdeveloped setting. We will analyse the 1,095-page document titled “Approved Estimates of Akwa Ibom State for 2012.”

June 27, 2012
Emmanuel Ohuabunwa has emerged as the best graduating student in the John Hopkins University, USA with a grade point of 3.98 out of 4.0 in Neurosciences.

Ohuabunwa who hails from Abia State, has been able to make the nation proud and with his efforts has won  himself a scholarship to Yale University to get a degree in Medicine.

He has also become a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, a prestigious honor group that features membership of 17 US Presidents, 37 US Supreme Court Justices, and 136 Nobel Prize winners.

May 10, 2012
Nigerians spend huge in UK shops

 

April 20, 2012
James Ibori and the 'somebodys' and 'nobodys' of Nigeria

The most corrupt officials are often the most generous, but letting this system continue only preserves the giver's power

April 16, 2012
Can Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala break America’s hold on the World Bank?

At the time, Obama was an ambitious young senator from Illinois with a keen interest in foreign affairs. Okonjo-Iweala was Nigeria’s blunt-speaking finance minister, traversing the globe to convince the world’s wealthiest nations that they should ease her country’s debt burden.

The first time Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ever had to convince Barack Obama of anything was back in 2005.

 

April 14, 2012
U.S. wants Nigeria to begin talks with Boko Haram

Nigeria’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ade Adefuye, who briefed The Guardian yesterday about the closed-door White House meeting, said the meeting of the VPs, which was scheduled to last about 45 minutes, went on past an hour as both top officials reviewed their strategic relationships just as a major investment forum on Nigeria’s agriculture was being held elsewhere in the U.S. capital the same day.

A FRESH insight into how to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency has come from the United States (U.S.), which wants Nigeria to open a dialogue with the group.

The proposal of the U.S. came as Vice President Namadi Sambo and his American counterpart, Joe Biden, reviewed diplomatic relations between their countries on Tuesday afternoon at the White House.