Reps urge NSA, IGP to stop Benue killings
Members of the House of Representatives yesterday asked the National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Abubakar, to put an end to the...
View ArticleOgun LP accuses Nat Publicity Secretary of causing confusion
A faction of Ogun State chapter of Labour Party loyal to former Governor Gbenga Daniel, has alleged that the national publicity secretary of the party, Chief Ikpe Etokudo was causing confusion in the...
View ArticleWhich way Nigeria?
To say that the Nigerian polity is presently heated-up is an understatement. There is confusion everywhere and the situation is gradually getting out of hand. Selfish and unpatriotic interests have...
View ArticleEnabling the physically challenged
According to English writer and politician, William Hay (1695-1755), one great advantage of deformity is that it tends to the improvement of the mind. In his words: “a man that cannot shine in his...
View ArticleDame Jonathan’s life-saving programme
It is February! This is the beautiful month to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Many of us are thinking of buying fancy heart shaped gifts and candies or heart shaped cards for the person who makes our heart...
View ArticleThat NUC’s exposé on Ghanaian ‘degree mills’
The February 24, 2014 edition of The Monday Bulletin, the official in-house journal of the National Universities Commission, NUC, was particularly loaded with interesting features stories. The one that...
View ArticleFree education in the North
R ecently, Governors under the aegis of Northern Governors Forum, NSGF, bemoaned the parlous state of education in the region and took a position with a view to tackling the problem. To this end, they...
View ArticleWhy we are joining the digital TV revolution – MD Core Media, Jide Adediran
Chief Executive Officer at Core Media Services, Jide Adediran has explained the reasons behind his company’s decision to float a digital television platform, Core TV on Startimes. According to the...
View ArticleOlamide emerges MTV Base Artiste of the Month
MTV Base has named Nigerian rapper, Olamide, as its Artiste for the Month of March. Olamide came into limelight in 2010 with his hit singles. He was recently a co-host on MTV Base’s weekly music...
View ArticleSir Shina Peters features Timaya in new song
Legendary Juju musician, Sir Shina Peters has recorded a song with self-styled Egberi Papa 1 of Bayelsa, Timaya. Although the title of the song has not been revealed, Timaya himself shared the news...
View ArticleAll’s well for Brazil 2014 – NFF
Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has allayed fears over a perceived absence of funds for the prosecution of the Super Eagles 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign. NFF had earlier in the month urged the House...
View ArticleCourt sentences 3 to death in Ekiti for armed robbery
An Ado-Ekiti High Court yesterday sentenced three men to death by hanging for armed robbery and discharged and acquitted one of the accused. The convicts were Tunde Abe, Monday Eze and Nonso Vincent,...
View ArticleAdamawa launches war against maternal mortality
Society for Family Health, SFH, in conjunction with the Adamawa chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, has launched the Emergency Transport Scheme in the state, ETS. The...
View ArticleBorno spends N27m on insurgency victims
Borno State Special Emergency Relief Committee said that it had spent N27 million on the provision of relief materials to victims of Friday’s attack by insurgents. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN...
View ArticleNIS tragedy: Benue groups seek understanding
Members of a youth organisation, Benue Grassroots Coalition, BGC, have condoled with the families and friends of those who lost their lives during a recruitment exercise that was conducted by the...
View ArticleHuman leg found in carton in Makurdi
Police in Makurdi, Benue State capital, Thursday last week discovered an amputated human leg wrapped in a carton along Moses Shaaji Street, Logo 2, Makurdi. The state Police Public Relations...
View ArticleMonarchs ask Navy to develop barracks, school land
Traditional leaders in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State have asked the Nigerian Navy to develop the plot of land given to it for barrack and secondary school. The royal fathers made...
View ArticleHerbalist faces N140,000 fraud charge
Sixty-five-year-old herbalist, Olatunde Ogini, was yesterday docked at an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly obtaining N140,000 under false pretence. The prosecutor, Cpl. Mary...
View ArticleJonathan bags Namibia’s highest honour
President Goodluck Jonathan was yesterday, in Windhoek, conferred with the “Order of Welwitschia’’, Namibia’s highest national honour, by his counterpart, President Hifikepunye Pohamba. The decoration...
View ArticleCommon Wealth Games: Ajunwa faults preparations
Sports Minister, Tamuno Danagogo has predicted that Team Nigeria will win lots of medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, but 1996 Olympic Games gold medalist, Chioma Ajunwa- Opara...
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