Cross River State has witnessed over 15 cases of fire disasters this year destroying properties estimated at over N50 million and displacing over 4,000 persons.Most of the fires affected fishing communities, residential houses, business centres and farms.Disclosing this while assessing fire disaster at Ikot...

Still smarting in their loss of 86 oil wells to Rivers State, this is not the best of times for Akwa Ibom State as the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) moved to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on the case.Already, the Commission...

As President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law the new minimum wage, states have begun to contest the Federal Government’s 52.68 per cent revenue which it collects at the end of the month should be reviewed downward.Speaking to the newsmen at the end of the...

GOVERNOR of Kano State and presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has restated his determination to ensure power and macro-economic stability, agriculture and infrastructure development in Nigeria if voted to power in next month’s general elections.He said the...

Five states in Nigeria would soon benefit from Commercial Agriculture Development Project (CADP) which the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the World Bank.The agreement which was signed in Abuja to stimulate the export and marketability of...

Head of Affairs and Country Representative of DFID, Dr. Richard Montgomery, said that his group was understudying Anambra State especially Onitsha as to know possible areas to collaborate with the government. He disclosed this when the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, accompanied...