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Four Nigerian states in total darkness as national grid collapses

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, has notified electricity consumers in Rivers, Bayelsa, Cross River and…

Amosun seeks assembly’s approval for N14b loan

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has written to the House of Assembly seeking approval to access the…

Why we reduced MTN’s fine – Minister

Mr Adebayo Shittu, Minister of Communications has disclosed that the $5.2billion fine slammed on telecommunication giant, MTN, was reduced to…
The 2015 All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Rivers State, Dr Dakuku Peterside has said the victory of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the just concluded presidential election represents a promising moment in Nigeria's history.

NIMASA to automate payment process

In line with its restructuring programme, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is set to automate its payment…

Nigerian businessman dupes Chinese companies of N49.6m

Paul Iyoghojie A Nigerian businessman who duped Chinese companies of N49.6m has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court for…

Bread price to go up again, say Masterbakers

Chief Simeon Abanulor, the National Chairman, Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria, said there would be a hike…

Internet fraudster jailed 10 years

Justice H.A. Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday convicted Frank Emem and sentenced him…

EgyptAir second black box pulled out of sea

The second black box of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board was…

Military arrests 19 Niger Delta Avengers, foils attack on Agip pipeline

The Joint Military Force deployed to protect oil installations in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, on Friday said it…

Lagos shuts CWAY, others for public safety

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has shut down two water producing companies in Lagos, CWAY Nigeria Drinking Water Science…
SMEDAN, Microsoft Nigeria train 500 market men, women and youths in Ogun on how they can use Artificial Intelligence to boost their businesses.

5,700 Lagos youths for agro-business training

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN and the Association of Micro Entrepreneurs of Nigeria, AMEN in…

Fire guts MTN warehouse in Ogba, Ikeja

Abu Jimoh Mobile telecommunications giant, MTN’s warehouse located off Acme Road, Ogba, Lagos State, has been gutted by fire. The…

Nigeria may experience food shortage, UNDP warns

The UN Development Programme (UNDP), on Thursday, warned that Nigeria might experience food shortage, if urgent interventions were not put…

Police refute alleged pipeline attack in A/Ibom

The Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom, Mr Murtala Mani, on Thursday refuted an alleged explosion of pipelines at Ikot…
Real reason for fuel scarcity in Abuja, other northern states

Fuel queues resurface in Port Harcourt, sells for N160 per litre

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The strike declared by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) over sack of its…

69 air passengers escape death as plane catches fire

Jet Airways airlines, on Wednesday, said its passenger plane, Flight 9W 2839, with 69 people on board, made an emergency…

Lagos warns boat operators against blackmail

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Waterways Authority, LASWA, has warned boat operators in the state against blackmailing the government as…

AIT sacks workers over 16 months salary arrears

‎Jethro Ibileke/Benin The management of the African Independent Television (AIT) Tuesday sacked all the workers at its Benin City station,…
Court jails Lagos woman, Bose Lateef arrested by EFCC while hawking naira notes at Eko Club after she pleaded guilty to money racketeering.

Naira falls again

The Naira on Monday fell against the dollar at the parallel market. The Nigerian currency shed N8 to exchange at…

Ecobank manager sent to prison over N14m fraud

Paul Iyoghojie The police at the Ikoyi Division Lagos, Western Nigeria have arrested the operational manager of Ecobank of Nigeria,…

Julius Berger, RCC resume work on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

Two construction giants, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc and Reynolds Construction Company (RCC) have returned to site to resume work on…

MTN agrees to pay Nigeria N330bn fine

mtn MTN Group has agreed to pay a reduced fine of 330 billion naira ($1.67 billion) in a settlement with…

Niger Delta Avengers on the rampage, blow up another pipeline

The Niger Delta Avengers are on the rampage in Nigeria’s South as they blew up another crude oil pipeline belonging…

Banks stop granting loans to Ekiti workers over irregular salary

Most commercial banks operating in Ekiti have placed embargo on further granting of loans against salary to workers in the…

NNPC loses N20b in one month due to attacks by Niger Delta Avengers

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has disclosed that it lost N20 billion in April due to attacks on Forcados…

Oil revenue falls by five percent, states in trouble

The revenue of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) dipped in April by 4.99 per cent to N102.45 billion from N107.…

Pepper soup lovers in trouble as catfish scarcity looms

Catfish may soon be out of the reach of the average Nigerian as the hike in prices of feeds has…

South Africa to grant Nigerians 5-year visas

The South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Lulu Mnguni, on Wednesday announced his government’s decision to commence the issuance…

Senate summons Ngige, Emefiele to explain retrenchments in banks

The Senate has summoned the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele and bank…

FG will tackle challenges of mass transportation – Amaechi

The Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government will…
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