Apparently undeterred by Presidential Muhammadu Buhari’s order to the military to crush them, militants under the aegis of the new group, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), demanded some conditions that should be met by the Federal Government in order...

On December 12, 2015, my phone displayed missed calls from the Army Spokesperson, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman. Such missed calls from security spokespersons, can signify ‘fire on the mountain.’ I had been in Maiduguri the previous week on a special...

The management of Economic Confidential has approved the appointment of award-winning business journalist Ewache John Ajefu as new Acting Editor of the factual and authoritative Nigeria's Economic Magazine. Ajefu, the immediate past Head of Business and Economy with FirstAfricaNews, replaces...

Federation Account: Table of Allocation of N306bn Disbursed in April 2016 A Total sum of N306bn was disbursed to Federal, States and Local Government Councils in Nigeria at the monthly meeting of the Federation Account Committee (FAAC) which was held...

Federation Account: Tables of Allocation of N345bn Disbursed in March 2016 A Total sum of N345bn was disbursed to Federal, States and Local Government Councils in Nigeria at the monthly meeting of the Federation Account Committee (FAAC) which was held...

……Deploys additional Volumes of Petrol to Halt Emerging Queues in Abuja The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has announced the deployment of additional trucks of petrol to arrest the emerging fuel queues in some fuel stations in the Federal Capital...