The Federal Government has commenced the process of reviewing the Act setting up the Investments and Securities Tribunal (IST) as part of overall measures to make the securities market more effective.
Updated 7 Years ago

How can the country finally resolve the protracted irritations of the Jama’atul-Ahlil Sunnah Lil Da’awati Wal Jihad, commonly called Boko Haram? Could the atrocious actions of the sect be curbed through blanket amnesty for its unrepentant members?
Updated 7 Years ago

Shocked by the allegation that some people from the Northern part of the country own 83 per cent of oil blocks in the country, the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has threatened a total showdown, insisting that the blocks should be revoked.
Updated 7 Years ago

It is incontrovertible that the downstream sector of the petroleum industry has been on the brinks of collapse for some years. The Federal Government, through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, had been able to significantly sustain the supply of petroleum products to the populace, but at a very huge cost, which by all ...
Updated 7 Years ago

The Coalition of Civil Society Group For Transparency and Good Governance (CCSGFTGG) has called on the Taraba State Executive Council to put in place a team of medical experts to undertake a verification visit abroad to ascertain the health status of Governor Danbaba Suntai.
Updated 7 Years ago

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the House of Representatives Monday summoned the Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Andrew Yakubu; Executive Secretary, Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Mr. Reginald Stanley, and the Director, Department of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Osten Oluyemisiola, over queries raised against their organisations by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation.
Updated 7 Years ago

The Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) has stressed the need for training and retraining of geosciences students to enhance oil and gas exploration in the country and also increase revenue for the government. Meanwhile, the University Assistance Programme (UAP) leadership forum has been scheduled to take place between March 15 and 17, this year. It is entitled: “Enhancing skill-based ...
Updated 7 Years ago

Human rights activist, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has indicated his interest to vie for the governorship of Delta State with a promise to take Deltans out of what he called the present state of underdevelopment.
Updated 7 Years ago

• Controversy trails NLNG’s N195b dividend The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) owes the Federal Government N142.7 billion, but the Corporation has not shown any intention to pay the money, House of Representatives Committee on Finance has said. The corporation is supposed to remit the said amount from the N6 trillion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) it realised between 2009 and ...
Updated 7 Years ago

An eight-year-old schoolboy has married a 61-year-old woman because the ghost of his dead ancestor told him to, DailyMail of London reports. Sanele Masilela tied the knot with Helen Shabangu, who is already married and a mother-of-five.
Updated 7 Years ago