Sanusi bags Central Bank Governor of the Year Award
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been conferred with the 2013 Africa “Central Bank Governor of the Year” Award by the renowned IC Publications Group, in...
View ArticleOgboni confraternity: staff of National Museum abandon offices
For two weeks running, workers of the National Museum, Osogbo, located inside the Osogbo Grooves, have deserted office for fear of being attacked by members of the feuding Ogboni Confraternity. It...
View ArticleInspectors tasked on national policy on weights and measures
Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Dauda Kigbu has called on Inspectors of Weights and Measures to come up with a new national policy on weights and...
View ArticleBBA 8 Update
5 housemates up for eviction The following housemates; Denzel, Elikim, Hunda, Selly and Natasha have been placed on the chopping board. Having successfully gone through the first ever nominations of...
View ArticleOmbatse is not a militia; neither is it a secret cult – Baba Alakio,...
Until recently, little was known about the remote village of Alakio, its octogenarian traditionalist, Baba Ale Agu, or the Ombatse group. But the recent killing of over 60 security operatives, who had...
View ArticleBudding artiste, Novo drops Friday Video
Fast-rising hip-hop artiste, Babatunde Awoderu, better known as Novo in the music arena, has released the video of his latest hit single ‘Friday’. The awe-inspiring video, which was shot at choice...
View ArticleKuje Area Council boss commends Jonathan’s administration
The Chairman of Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Hon. Ishaku Shaban Tete has applauded the efforts of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan within the period of two...
View ArticleJonathan’s score card
Last Wednesday, May 29, marked what has entered the nation’s political lexicon, as Democracy Day. It was the day that Nigeria observed 14 years of uninterrupted democracy, especially a country whose...
View ArticleStigma is the number one killer of HIV/AIDS patients – FAHCI Executive Director
Mrs. Mary is the Executive Director, Family Health Care Foundation, FAHCI, a Non-Governmental Organisation based in Lafia, Nasarawa State. In this encounter with our Nasarawa State correspondent PETER...
View ArticleSupreme Court okays Gov Fayemi’s election
The Supreme Court yesterday in Abuja dismissed an appeal instituted by sacked former governor of Ekiti state, Engr. Segun Oni of the People’s Democratic Party wherein he sought for the apex court to...
View ArticleRangers dares Sfaxien in Tunisia
Rangers international of Enugu will tomorrow test their might against Club Sportif (CS) Sfaxien in the second leg of the 2013 CAF Confederation Cup play-off at the Stade Taeib Mhiri in Sfax, Tunisia....
View ArticleYoung musician eulogises council chair in music album
10-year old Favour Nwabueze, better known as 9ja queen, has released a music album in honour of the council chairman at Ifako-Ijaye, Dr. Oloruntoba Oke. The album titled ‘Toba Oke is the best’,...
View ArticleTortoise hypothesis: How the opposition will re-elect Jonathan in 2015
The opposition players and activists in Nigeria are campaigning for GEJ! If my permutations on the workings of the heart of the average Nigerian is right (I have not been wrong on too many occasions),...
View ArticleGovernor Fashola’s Enduring Legacies
As Governor Fashola moves gradually into the second phase of his second and final term, history and posterity demand that we look at the last six years and set the records straight. Governor Fashola...
View ArticleUn upports Brazil int’l energy centre
Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNIDO, Kandeh K. Yumkella, and Jorge Samek, the Director of Brazil’s Itaipu Binacional, the world’s largest generator of...
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N25m compensation: Baba Suwe loses at Appeal Court
The hope of ace comedian cum actor, Mr. Babatunde Omidina, popularly known as Baba Suwe, of getting N25m compensation awarded to him by a Lagos High court, against National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,...
View ArticleBusiness CAC introduces valid means of identification
Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, Alhaji Bello Mahmud has regretted that non existence of a central data base is a major challenge to ascertaining the veracity of information...
View ArticlePrivate sector partnership’ll take NRC to greater heights – Sijuwade
For the first time since over a century and a half of existence, Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, appears to have taken a bold step to free itself of the shackles of government control with a recent...
View ArticleGov. Obi has become law unto himself – APGA Chairman
The All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, is one party that has been bedeviled with crisis since inception. The party has all along been running from one court to the other to settle one crisis or the...
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56 terrorists arrested, several weapons recovered …as community exposes...
The Special Forces hunt for fleeing terrorists in Borno State yielded a major boost yesterday as communities support led to the arrest of group of terrorists numbering over 56 in a village in search of...
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