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Last Updated on 19 May 2015 Hits: 11 A suicide bomb attack on Tuesday at the Garkida Cattle Market in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State has left nine people dead and scores injured. Garkida is a border town near Borno State and close to the Sambisa Forest, where various camps of the insurgents […]

Last Updated on 19 May 2015 Hits: 21 The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said Monday that its social media accounts have been hacked. The party therefore shut down its Twitter and Facebook accounts. The party said it observed that in the course of the 2015 campaigns, personal positions and opinions of […]

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s most valuable Bank brand has again asserted its leadership in mobile financial offerings with the introduction of USSD transfers. The Bank has been offering mobile payment services to both banked and unbanked customers through its Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) – *894#.  FirstBank said it has improved its USSD […]

Nigeria’s largest cement producer, Dangote Cement has announced a gross profit of N74.7 billion for the three months ended 31st March 2015, indicating an increase of 10.5 percent over N67.63 billion recorded in the same period in 2014. According to the cement giant’s unaudited results for first quarter of 2015, revenues rose by 10.8 to […]Read More

Last Updated on 18 May 2015 Hits: 491 President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday afternoon fired the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Investment Promotion Council, Saratu Umar. The sacked Executive Secretary was immediately replaced by Uju Hassan-Baba in acting capacity. No reason was given for the sack. Recall that after the election, President Jonathan appointed Peter […]

Last Updated on 18 May 2015 Hits: 14 President Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari and Professor Yemi Osinbajo, his running mate on Sunday unveiled their official portraits, Buhari’s media team announcing that he would drop the tag: “General” from his name when he finally takes over government on 29th May. A statement signed by the Director, […]

Last Updated on 18 May 2015 Hits: 13 Few days to his handing over, President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Nigerians on whose toes he may have stepped while making vital decisions during his administration to forgive him. He rendered the apology on Sunday at a farewell service organised for him and his family at […]

Last Updated on 18 May 2015 Hits: 12 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced that the list of ministers being circulated on social media does not originate from it. The party dismissed the ministerial list as fake and that it has nothing to do with it. Dismissing the list in a statement issued by […]

Last Updated on 16 May 2015 Hits: 132 Senator Zannah, who was re-elected in the April, 2015 election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to represent Borno Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, died, Saturday, at age 60 after a brief illness. Zannah, a ranking senator, who was once quoted as […]

It is an incontrovertible fact that on the 29th May, 2015, the President-Elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, General Muhammadu Buhari will be inaugurated as the 5th Elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the tenure of President Good luck Jonathan shall lapse by virtue of the constitutional effluxion of time. Naturally […]

Last Updated on 14 May 2015 Hits: 19 The Nigerian Senate has approved the sum of N299.5 billion for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) with a breakdown of the budget showing that it comprises of N271 billion project expenditure; N16.1 billion personnel expenditure; N10.4 billion overhead expenditure and N1.8 billion capital expenditure. The approval […]

Last Updated on 14 May 2015 Hits: 18 The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on Thursday declared that the judiciary would no longer condone judges who are not fit for the job. As a result, the appointment of judges in Nigeria would no longer be based on interference and pressure from external forces. […]