A LAGOS-BASED legal practitioner, O.H Harris-Isa, has petitioned the Comptroller-General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko Nde, over alleged illegal detention of two Chinese nationals beyond the constitutionally recognised period by officers of the...

THE Federal Ministry of Education and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed a new memorandum of understanding to further consolidate on the Strengthening Mathematics and Science (SMASE) project being sponsored by JICA...

THE Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, has established a new agency that would regulate the activities of telecommunications operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the area of...

AFTER four years, female Christian performance poet, Damola Adesina, has released the Yoruba version of her album, The Praise of the Father. The new work entitled Iba Olodumare is due for launch tomorrow at the Coral Reef, 10A Ikoya Avenue,...

GLAXOSMITHKLINE Pharmaceutical Nigeria Limited has lost its bid to stop a N404 million suit instituted against it by a Burkina-Faso based employee of United Bank of Africa Plc, Mr. Charles Oben, as a Federal High Court, Ikeja division has struck...

FOR the current power sector reforms to achieve the desired results, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) may have to cede regulation of the gas sector to agencies directly in charge of power, according to the Managing Director/Chief...

Briefs THE Lagos State Government would no longer tolerate illegal activities in its industrial estates, Governor Babatunde Fashola said after inspecting the Ilupeju, Amuwo Odofin and Kirikiri Industrial Estates. Fashola, who read the riot...

THE European Union will set up major energy projects in Anambra State, as part of efforts to tackle the challenge of power supply in Nigeria. Disclosing this during a courtesy visit to Governor Peter Obi at the Government House, Awka, yesterday,...

THE Lagos State government, through its Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Mr. Gbolahan Lawal, has disclosed that the country imports about N105billion worth of fish every year to meet up with the rising demand for the commodity. At...

THE chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)Adamawa State council Mr. Andrawus Tarfa, has asked the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Attahiru Jega, to warned the Adamawa state Resident Electoral Commissioner...