By Dele Ogbod The Minister of Aviation, Mr. Osita Chidoka has hinted that passengers’ air fare charges may be reviewed downward, following the recommendation of a committee on aeronautical fare disparities, which submitted its report yesterday. Chidoka spoke in Abuja, while receiving the report from the committee set up a month ago to review all…
At least 31 people were killed in a double bombing in the Nigerian city of Jos on Thursday, while a 13-year-old girl in an explosives vest was arrested in the northern city of Kano. The blasts in Jos happened at a makeshift market near the Terminus bus station, which had been set up after a…
Says he’s committed to success of APC in 2015 pollsBy Soni Daniel Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has congratulated Gen. Muhammadu Buhari for emerging victorious in the keenly contested presidential primary election of All Progressives Congress (APC). Atiku in a concession statement by his media office in Lagos Thursday said that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari ran…
By Dapo Akinrefon, Gbenga Oke, Levinus Nwabughiogu & Monsur Olowoopejo LAGOS—WITH 3,430 votes, former Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday, trounced his four opponents to emerge the 2015 presidential candidate of the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). His main challenger, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former vice-president, got 954 votes to come third…
Analysts have continued to predict hard times for countries like Nigeria whose foreign exchange income is largely dependent on oil export. They fear that the steady decline in prices of crude oil poses great danger for them. According to The New York Times, the price of crude oil continued to collapse on Monday, plunging to…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday stated that Niger Delta amnesty programme influenced insurgency in the north east, describing the programme is a failure. Obasanjo also stated that Jonathan’s administration’s approach to curbing the activities of the militants “had taken the form of throwing money at the problem, particularly stuffing the pockets and bank of the…
Members of the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) advocacy will be writing a letter to the President of Chad, President Idriss Deby, concerning the whereabouts of the Chibok girls. The group said it would be writing to him with the hope of getting answers to the whereabouts of the girls and the status of the purported negotiations brokered…
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Federal Government, yesterday, described the N100million demand by Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, the alleged mastermind of the April 14 bomb blast that killed over 75 persons and wounded 100 others at a crowded motor park in Nyanya Abuja, as a big joke. Consequently, the government sought an outright dismissal of the fundamental…
Ejiofor Alike The federal government and the oil and gas producing companies may have lost an estimated $11.5billion to the drop in the price of Brent crude oil from $115 per barrel in June to $68.62 yesterday, THISDAY has learnt. With Nigeria producing about 2.4 million barrels per day and exporting 2.2 million barrels per…
Since he escaped into the US in 1996 during the gestapo regime of the maximum ruler Sani Abacha who hanged his mentor Ken Saro-Wiwa, Anslem Dornu Bari John-Miller has used his Chicago based Council of Ogoni Professionals (COP) as the Diaspora wing of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP). The COP President…