By Gboyega Adeoye The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), a serial repudiator of agreements with its contractors and concessionaires, has again come into full glare of the whole world.  Keen watchers of recent unfolding events in the Nigerian aviation sector cannot be less astonished than I do over the warped handling of issues,  policies and intrigues in the highly technical and globally regulate ...

The Chairman of Northern Governor’s Forum, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu received a pat on the back for  ensuring that the last zonal congress of Peoples Democratic party at the North central which took place in Makurdi was done in an atmosphere of peace.The Governor had prior to the congress informed all party stakeholders within the North Central Zone to key  into the agreement reached by the National Execut ...

By Danlami Nmodu   Prior to today’s gubernatorial election in Kebbi State, Professor Attahiru Jega , National Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission INEC  who incidentally is from the state addressed stake holders in Birnin Kebbi.Daily Trust captured the meeting in its report on Thursday, 29 March 2012 thus: “Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega, said no time would be extended for the condu ...

By Ibrahim Mshelizza  ( Fri Mar 30) MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram killed four people on Friday when they robbed a bank and stormed a police station in northeast Borno state, a government official said. Gunmen killed two people during a raid on a UBA branch in Askira town in the early hours before attacking the local police station, where an officer and ...

By Chantal Uwimana and Auwal Musa Rafsanjani   Nigeria hits the global headlines these days for two reasons: terrorism and corruption. Both are complicated but not intractable problems. They require a government committed to defending the rule of law. In the case of corruption, which threatens the lives of so many of the poor, there may be a slackening of will to do the right thing. Take the recent pen ...

By Ejike Umunnabuike Jr & Lami Sheikh with additional reports from Steven Sughter Peverga   DSK, a Taraba State-based philanthropic Foundation is reaching  out to an impressive population of  less privileged Taraba State citizenry  through regular communal empowerment projects. Speaking to Newdiaryonline.com , a spokesman of the DSK Foundation, Barrister Jime Yongo, a private legal practitioner dom ...

Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Anselm Odinkalu will on Sunday, April 1, 2012 be hosted to a reception in Abuja by his alumni, Federal Government College Okigwe Old Students Association (FEGOCOOSA) Abuja chapter. Also, Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi as Guest Speaker at the event will be speaking on the topic: "Education and the chall ...

Murder, Inc. (or Murder Incorporated) was the name given by the American press to organized crime groups in the 1920s through the 1940s that resulted in hundreds of murders on behalf of the American Mafia and Jewish Mafia groups who together formed the early organized crime groups in New York and elsewhere. The name was a journalistic invention. This same phrase should be applied to Nigeria’s main industry ...

A former banker with First City Monument Bank Plc (FCMB), Olajide Ogundipe, was on February 15th, 2012 sentenced to six months imprisonment by a Federal High court presided by Justice Alaba Ajileye in Lokoja, Kogi State over a N12.3 million automated teller machine, ATM, fraud. Ogundipe, a cash officer with the bank was arraigned by Economic and Financial Crimes commission, EFCC on March 2nd , 2011 on an ei ...

By Oluwambe Amodu Venue: Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation  Global Canvas Art and Poetry Competition  is an  annual children’s competition which is  part of David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s Art for Survival programme.It was  established in 2004 to encourage young people to express their concern for the environment, and in particular the endangered spe ...