Oil falls below new budget benchmark

The price of global benchmark Brent crude oil fell about three per cent on Monday to a six-week low of $52.50 per barrel, less than a week after the National Assembly adopted $53 per barrel as the 2015 budget oil price benchmark.

Presidential Polls: States that may determine the winner

LESS than 14 days to the presidential election, a number of states are emerging as votes swinging blocs that will shape the outcome of the polls.

BY CHARLES KUMOLU

WITH just two weeks to the 2015 presidential election, there is no doubt that votes in states with high density registered voters, would most likely determine who wins the contest.

Killer of our daughter on the loose – Family of murdered Lagos housewife

Fate, has an uncanny way of affecting human beings. At times, it turns out positive, some other times, it ends negatively. For the families of Late Mrs. Obiageli Anajekwu and Chinyere Onyali, her bosom friend and neighbour, it has been a tragic tale of woes and untold suffering.

To the foster family of late Obiageli, they are not only contending with the traumatic effect of losing their loved daughter under painful circumstances in her matrimonial home but, are more saddened that investigations into the circumstances that surrounded her agonising death may be stalled by the police.

Buhari, Osinbajo’s wives attacked in Ilorin, 10 vehicles vandalised

ILORIN — The convoy of the wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Hajia Aisha Buhari  was yesterday attacked by suspected hoodlums in Ilorin, Kwara State.
Mrs-Buhari and Oisnbajo

American delegates, Nigerian intelligence chiefs clash in Washington over election shift

A mild tussle ensued on Wednesday at a special briefing in Washington DC when members of an American pre-election mission disputed claims by two Nigerian security chiefs that their delegation endorsed postponement of the elections.

Giving updates on preparations for the re-scheduled elections, Ambassador Ayodele Oke, Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, and Rear-Admiral Gabriel E. Okoi, Director of Defence Intelligence, said the Nigerian government has overcome most of the security and logistic problems that led to the postponement of the election.

How we will defeat Boko Haram before elections – Nigeria’s Intelligence Chiefs

The Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, on Wednesday said Nigeria would be fully liberated from terrorist control before elections begin on March 28.

Speaking in Washington DC, Mr. Oke declared that “no territory of Nigeria will be under the suzerainty of Boko Haram” by the time Nigerians go to the polls.

One year after, Jonathan gives Immigration Recruitment victims’ families money, jobs

A year after pledging jobs to families who lost loved ones during a deadly recruitment by the Nigeria Immigration, President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday, finally, handed out money and appointment letters to the beneficiaries.

Mr. Jonathan gave N75 million (N5million to each family) as well as employment letters to families of those who died in the botched exercise.