Federal Government on Tuesday said it was ready to increase intellectual property rights toward industrialisation of the nation. Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology, made the assertion when he addressed journalists at a world press conference on the forthcoming Science, Technology and Innovation Expo scheduled to hold from March 5 to March 9. According to him, the ...

A property allegedly belonging to the former first lady, Patience Jonathan, was on Tuesday demolished by the FCT Development Control Department. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the building, which is inside A. Aruera – Reachout Foundation/Women For Change and Development Initiative, is situated on Shehu Yar’Adua Way along Mabushi–Kado–Life Camp Expressway, Abuja. Emmanuel Anene, a lawyer with E.A. ...

The FADAMA III Additional Financing (AF) Programme in Niger State says it has spent N437 million on constructing a road and rehabilitating two dams in three local government areas of the state. Baba Shaba, the Communication Officer of FADAMA III (AF) Programme in Niger, said this known in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Tuesday. ...

The EFCC had filed an application for interim order of forfeiture against Mrs Jonathan Patience’s accounts and her siblings but her lawyers led by Chief Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN) opposed the application based on the fact that similar applications were pending before other courts in Abuja, which they claimed amounted to forum shopping and judicial abuse of court process. Justice Mojisola ...

SABMiller, the largest breweries in the world which was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) a Brazilian-Belgian Group headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, currently leads 19 other firms in fresh investments worth over $10 billion expected to be completed in Ogun state this year, BusinessDay has learnt. BusinessDay reports that the fresh 20 companies which cut across key sectors of economy, ...

A twin set of incidents hit Lagos-Ibadan expressway as a tanker lost its control and ran into other vehicles leading to a multiple car crash and a gas explosion along the Ojudu-Berger axis. In the first incident which happened in the early hours of the day, a fire was set off by an explosion at the Second Coming gas plant ...

When you think about Lagos as a city, three words easily come to mind – “Business, pleasure, and traffic”. It would be a gross injustice to leave out the latter. This seductive city that is mainly characterized by its vigour and an intensely motivating atmosphere. Everyone seems to be going somewhere fast, always on the move, always on the go. ...

Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State has called on the people of the state to refrain from  illegal dumping of refuse in drainage channels and waterways so as to avert flooding. Dankwambo made the call during an inspection visit to Dukku Motor Park new roundabout in Gombe on Monday. He said that his administration was striving to address the problem ...

The Ekiti State Government has banned the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, from holding public office in the state for 10 years for diverting funds meant for construction. The ban followed the indictment of Mr. Fayemi by a judicial commission of inquiry which probed his tenure as governor of Ekiti State between 2010 and 2014. A white ...

The Edo State Government has served demolition notice to developers in Benin metropolis whose buildings breached the state town planning laws. Speaking to journalists at the weekend in Benin, the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Edorodion Oye Erimona  said the notice serves as a final reminder to those whose properties contravened the state’s laws on urban development. “If ...