A glimpse of Nigeria’s compulsory service year pen-wise: Thoughts on Joshua...
The story of the Nigerian compulsory one-year graduate service is one that means different things to different people. The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC – the name of the service body – brings...
View ArticleOsun First Lady receives state task group on sanitation
Wife of the Osun State governor, Alhaja Sherifat Abidemi Aregbesola has reiterated that, on her own part as the Community Led Total Sanitation, CLTS Ambassador, she would not relent in ensuring that an...
View ArticleSARD-SC to boost agric production in Africa by 20%
The African Development Bank, AfDB-funded Support for Agricultural Research and Development of Strategic Crops, SARD-SC will boost agricultural production by 20 per cent in Nigeria and other 19 African...
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Oil coys behind crude theft – Kuku
Special Adviser to the president on Niger Delta and chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Kingsley Kuku has accused foreign oil companies operating in the country of being behind continued crude...
View ArticleFG supports LADOL’s partnership with Chinese firm in offshore development
Efforts to make Nigeria a hub for Oil &Gas exploration in the West African sub-region received a boost in far away China last week as the Federal Government brokered a major partnership deal...
View ArticleAbdullahi, Ogba set to launch Kids’ Athletics programme
Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi and President of Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Solomon Ogba, would on July 25 in Lagos, launch the Nestle Kids’ Athletics programme. Nestlé is a...
View ArticleRodents take over Makurdi modern market
Makurdi Modern Market has before now remained a melting business hub in the Benue State capital, built by the Aper Aku administration in early 80s, it is designed to provide ready world class luck up...
View ArticleWho will save the local councils?
Last Thursday, the 4th of July 2013, the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on the review of the constitution submitted its report to the House. The committee had exhaustively dealt with several...
View ArticleAPPA tasks merger party on manifestoes
The newly rebranded All Progressive Peoples Alliance, APPA, has tasked the merger party, the All Progressive Congress, APC, to make public to Nigerians its constitution and manifestoes. In an interview...
View ArticleWe want to make workers responsive — Ayakoroma
The Executive Secretary, National Institute for Cultural Orientation, Dr. Barclays Ayakokoma has said that the organisation is keen on making workers in the cultural sector more responsive and...
View ArticleNPA’s N18 billion port development levy withheld
Lagos Capital projects being undertaken by the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, may suffer setbacks as the Ministry of Finance has not released over N18 billion that has accrued from the seven per cent...
View ArticleAdichie’s Americanah wins American prize
American based Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel, Americanah, has been awarded the 2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for fiction. The Heartland Prize is a literary prize...
View ArticleLadoja’s engineering certificate doubtful —ACN
The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Oyo State chapter, has said that it doubted the engineering certificate of former governor of the state and leader of the Accord Party, Senator Rashidi Ladoja. The...
View ArticleChukwu tasks minister on Oliha, Yekini, Okafor’s promised house
As the Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi gets set to commission the permanent Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) house in Abuja today, Thursday, July 18, 2013, former Super Eagles coach,...
View ArticleEkiti PDP crisis divides SWC
Ado-Ekiti The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ekiti State has divided the State Working Committee, SWC of the party. Addressing journalists in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital at a...
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Rivers Crisis: Senate report leaks
•Police summon House leaders, Amaechi’s ADC, CSO Rivers Crisis: Senate committee report leaks Those thinking that the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State which resulted...
View ArticleEmergency rule in Adamawa, Borno, Yobe remains –FG
The federal government yesterday said that despite the recent declaration of ceasefire by a faction of the Boko Haram sect, it would continue with emergency rule in the three states of Adamawa, Borno,...
View ArticleAkinkugbe, Arisekola, others to grace ABC Foundation’s inauguration
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Prof. OladipoAkinkugbe, the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Abdul-AzeezArisekolaAlao and other eminent personalities will on Thursday grace the inauguration of ABC...
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Bala supports rejection of 6-year single tenure
Alhaji Bala Muhammed, a former national secretary of the de-registered Progressive Action Congress, PAC, has supported the Senate for rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment for single six-year...
View ArticleThinking equity in A/Ibom 2015 Guber race
Equity and fair play become the new political slogan for the people of Eket Senatorial District as their opponents seem to counter the principle of zoning. Charles Effiong examines the situation...
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