Daily Archives: December 10, 2012
MTN backs bank-led m-money
MTN Nigeria, has expressed its support for the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) bank- led mobile money model . Read More »
Delta wins 5th festival title
Team Delta has emerged the overall winner of the 18th National Sports Festival tagged: EKO 2012, flooring all opponents with her overwhelming performance to top the medals table. Delta scooped an impressive haul of 116 gold, 99 Silver and 75 ... Read More »
Okonjo-Iweala’s mum kidnapped
Undeterred by the 45-year-jail term each slammed on four kidnappers by a Delta High Court last Friday, dare-devil gunmen yesterday struck in Ogwashi-Uku, also in the state, where they abducted Prof. Kanene Okonjo, mother of Finance Read More »
Kaduna landlords, youths clash over ownership of cemetery
Hundreds of protesting youths yesterday clashed with some Kaduna landlords over ownership of plots of land believed to have been used over the years as cemetery which township expansion hadcaught up with. The rampaging youths, Daily Sun learnt, were against ... Read More »
NNPC budgets N4bn for 30 new petrol stations
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) plans to build 10 new petrol stations for about N4billion next year even as it said that the Federal Government lost N241.93 billion to crude theft between 2006 and this year. Read More »
News Review: Deregistration of 28 political parties
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last Thursday kicked 28 political parties off the nation’s political landscape in a deregistration exercise that is now generating ripples across the country Read More »
ICPC summons Ogun Speaker, clerk, others
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has summoned the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi over alleged cars scam. Read More »
AMCON forces Aero MD to resign
The restructuring exercise initiated by the Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) since its technical takeover of Aero has consumed its first casualty in the person of the Managing Director of the airline, Capt. Akin George. George was asked to ... Read More »
Corruption is destroying Nigeria, ACN cries out
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said the country’s poor rating by Transparency International in its 2012 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) has shown as an empty boast the Jonathan presidency’s claim that corruption has Read More »
Rivers woos investors with CARNIRIV
The Rivers State government has restated its commitment to attract foreign investments into the state, with the ongoing Rivers State Carnival, popularly referred to as CARNIRIV, which began at the weekend in Port Harcourt, Read More »
