Rivers Assembly to resume sitting soon
Rivers State House of Assembly which has been involved in five months crisis is likely to resume sitting soon, if the 31 lawmakers comply with the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph...
View ArticleGovernor Shettima advocates holistic approach in tackling Boko Haram
Governor of Bornu State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima has called on the federal and state governments to adopt a holistic and comprehensive approach in tackling the dreaded Boko Haram menace in Bornu and...
View ArticlePreventing HIV/AIDS
Since 1988, December 1st is marked world’s AIDS day to help us remember to show support to the people living with HIV, to commemorate those who have died of the disease, to remind those who are...
View ArticleAssuaging sectarian violence in Nigeria
Religious dominance has not been objectively ascertained in Nigeria notwithstanding the uneven spread of adherents of Christianity and Islam in specific geographical zones in the country. Analysts...
View ArticleDo your best for Nigeria, Gaiya charges Falconets
Ahead of their second leg tie against Tunisia this weekend during qualifiers for the 2014 U-20 Female World Cup, House Committee on Sports Chairman, Hon Godfrey Ali Gaiya has charged Nigeria’s...
View ArticleINEC and elections in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, stirred up a hornet’s nest few days ago when it stated that the commission will not conduct election by 2015 in states under security threats and...
View ArticleContinuity: Hallmark of legislative development
The legislature in a democracy simply refers to that arm of government which primary responsibility is to make laws to regulate its affairs and that of other arms of government like the executive and...
View ArticleMandela and desperation of opposition-linked media
As the desperation of opposition linked new and traditional media reaches a crescendo, they have adopted Goebbels’ philosophy that a lie told often enough eventually comes to be accepted by the public...
View ArticleHypocrisy of the oppressed in Nigeria
Without a wave of mental vacillation or careless ambivalence it is tendentiously apt to say that the oppressor of the oppressed in Nigeria is the oppressed. And the curse of the oppressed in the...
View ArticleEnosoregbe confirmed Nigeria’s No.1 tennis player
Winner of this year’s Men’s singles event at the Dala Hard Court tourney in Kano, Clifford Enosoregbe, is Nigeria’s number one male tennis player. This much was disclosed to Pilot Sports by the...
View ArticleAbuja to host next National Youth Games
Plans are underway for the second to the fourth National Youth Games to be hosted in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Chairman of the Local Organising Committee, LOC for the first edition which...
View ArticleCanada 2014 2nd leg: Falconets depart for Tunisia today
Nigeria’s under U20 women national team, the Falconets will depart the country today for Tunis for the second leg FIFA world cup qualifier, tagged, ‘Canada 2014 against Tunisia and the match would be...
View ArticleSuper Eagles get World Cup balls
Adidas and Fifa have announced that the Brazuca Official Match Balls has been delivered to all 32 countries that qualified for the 2014 Fifa World Cup Brazil. The official ball, The Brazuca, which was...
View ArticleNFF sheds light on 2014 World Cup financial matters
The Nigeria Football Federation has explained in detail all financial matters around the country’s participation in the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals. Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday, NFF’s Director of...
View ArticleNPA to prosecute commercial drivers at ports
General Manager, Western Ports of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Miss Adenike Sonaike, has warned that NPA will henceforth prosecute any unauthorized commercial drivers arrested within the ports....
View ArticleOnline education receives boost with MTN iLearning
MTN Business, the business-to-business arm of one of leading Nigeria’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Company, MTN Nigeria, has entered into partnership with Regenesys Business School,...
View ArticleCPC boss, two others win human rights awards
Director General, Consumer Protection Council, CPC, Mrs. Dupe Atoki, and two other prominent women were midweek in Abuja honoured with an award over their outstanding performances in the human rights...
View ArticleInvestment: Chinese firms eye Nigeria’s mining, other sectors
Two Chinese companies have indicated interest to invest in Nigeria’s mining, real estate, solar energy, electricity, mass transportation and the agro-allied, among other sectors of the nation’s...
View ArticleMining: FG seeks stronger China ties
Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Musa Muhammad Sada yesterday in Abuja called for strong cooperation with Chinese in solid minerals development in Nigeria. Sada who made this call during a...
View ArticleDI: 99,000 unprocessed RARs fabricated – Customs boss
Assistant Comptroller General in charge of Modernization and Research of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Iya Abubakar Umar, has revealed that most of the over 99,000 ‘unprocessed’ Risk Assessment...
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