Dangote Cement’s Zambian subsidiary has sued the country’s labour minister for libel and slander after he accused an executive of the Nigerian company of attempting to bribe him. A row has been brewing between Zambia and Dangote Cement, a major employer in Africa’s second-largest copper producer, after the government minister made the allegations in September.
A family source has told SaharaReporters of the death of Oyoms Alamieyeseigha, 24,
A few days ago, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state made it know that the pitiable financial condition of States in Nigeria should be blamed on the Federal Government as a result of the corruption and stealing at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).Governor Amaechi said that dwindling revenues to States is caused by the…
There was indignation in Bayelsa State on Monday following the alleged killing of the former Governor Diepreye Alameisegha’s son, Mr. Oyemifa, in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate (UAE). The Nation gathered that Oyemifa, second to the last child in the family and student, was killed in Dubai at the weekend. His body was said to…
Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has disclosed that the only way to develop Nigeria’s socio-economic potentials is to vote out President Goodluck Jonathan in February 2015.The governor stated this on Thursday at the first Igbajo Polytechnic summit and fund-raising programme, held at the school’s permanent site in Igbajo. According to the…
AS the battle to rout out Boko Haram terrorists from communities seized in Adamawa State continues, military source have disclosed that some soldiers and officers are inventing pranks to avoid deployment to the battlefield.At the weekend, seven soldiers allegedly opened fire on different parts of their bodies and later claimed that Boko Haram terrorists shot…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently speak out and take action on the monumental Malabu oil scandal that is rocking his Administration and again putting Nigeria under the global spotlight as a corrupt nation. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed,…
Military authorities prosecuting the war against terrorism in the North East states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe have arrested several soldiers, who were discovered to have leaked vital security information on the troops’ strategies and tactics to Boko Haram that led to a series of ambush and killing of over 30 Nigerian soldiers in recent…
If proposals contained in the new Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) were approved by the National Assembly, oil communities in Nigeria would, from next year, share $600 million annually from contributions made by oil firms in the country. The amount may be adjusted pursuant to subsection 334 of the new Act, “to allow for inflationary increase.”…
Efforts by stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress, APC to forge a consensus between two of the major presidential aspirants in the party, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Rabiu Kwankwanso have failed. Both men in an apparent determination to slug it out have now formally scheduled dates to declare their aspirations.