Determined to check the high rate of unemployment across the nation, the Federal Government on Thursday set up a private sector committee on job creation. The Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Economic Management Team, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, who identified unemployment as one of his cardinal areas of intervention, also said that 12 [...]

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr. Chukwurah Udeh, has said that Lagos State will get an additional passport office within a short while at Alausa-Ikeja to boost the issuance of the electronic passport in the metropolis. He also said that the NIS would deploy most of its intervention and mobile acquisition machines to [...]

Nigerians should expect an increase in electricity tariff as their new year present in 2011, said, the sole administrator of Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Imamuddeen Talba Mr Talba, who spoke at a workshop on the annual review of the Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) organised by the commission, said the planned increase would not [...]

• Urges other states to emulate initiative Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos has urged his brother governors particularly of neighboring states to emulate the initiative of building accident and emergency centre along highways in their states in order to reduce the rate of mortality resulting from road traffic accidents. Mr. Fashola, who stated this [...]

Nigeria is blessed to have men and women of resources that can successfully stair the nation out of the woods. As 2011 draws near, Nigerians must know who to elect as their president, a wrong step taken will cost the nation dearly. The person might not necessarily solve all our problems or be the best, [...]