NIGERIA'S transport and justice ministers Rotimi Amaechi and Abubakar Malami have been dragged to court by a group of local companies over what they term the unlawful award of a contract for a190km railway line in Niger State to a Chinese firm without due process.
Currently in the middle of a railway upgrading programme,...
FORMER Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has stepped up his quest for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by donating N50m ($120,540) to the Niger State government.
Asiwaju Tinubu who governed Lagos State between 1999 and 2007, declared his candidacy earlier this month and has since begun...
GOVERNOR Abubakar Bello of Niger State has revealed that he is no longer on control of large swathes of territory in the state after Boko Haram terrorists recently took over the town of Kaure in Shiroro Local Government Area and hoisted their flag there.
Daring in the extreme, Boko Haram operate in a very brazen manner,...
Ayo Akinfe
Lagos State: Our commercial capital currently accounts for about one quarter of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) and one third of non-oil GDP. However, we need to built on it and turn it into an international financial centre that matches London which generates $650bn a year or New York which generates $1.4trn a...
FEARS are growing that Nigeria may have witnesses another tragedy involving dozens of deaths after a chartered aircraft believed to be carrying military personnel crashed in Abuja this morning killing everyone on board.
According to Nigeria's aviation minister Senator Hadi Sirika the King Air 350 plane was chartered by the...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) For starters Niger State has the largest landmass in Nigeria with 76,363 km2. This is more than double the whole of the southeast geo-political zone with its 29,525 square kilometres and almost as much as the entire 79,665 square kilometres that makes up the southwest
(2) Are you all aware that Nigeria’s first ever...
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