…begs ASUU to return to negotiation table
By Emmanuel Aziken
ABUJA—The Senate committee on Education has flayed plans by the Minister of Education Dr. Sam Egwu to excise junior secondary schools from the nation’s unitary schools, asserting that it was another policy to dislocate the nation’s educational system.
Reacting [...]
By Dennis Agbo
ABAKALIKI—“If the arms and ammunition presently in the possession of the Ezza militants in the Ezza/Ezillo war front are not submitted to the Ebonyi government, the 2011 general elections in the state would obviously turn bloodier than has ever been recorded,†a soldier at the war zone has exclusively revealed to Vanguard.
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By Tony Edike
ENUGU—NDIGBO yesterday, reiterated their commitment to the preservation of their rich cultural heritage and restoration of value and ideology among their citizens as they marked the 2009 New Yam festival.
Ndigbo also used the occasion of the festival held in Enugu, to condemn in strong terms the current wave of violent crimes [...]
By AbdulSalam Muhammad
KANO — Victims of the 1996 Pfizer Trovan drug test trial in Kano are to undergo another round of scrutiny before they receive a dime as compensation.
A retired Supreme Court Judge, and Chairman, Pfizer/Kano sState Health Care Meningitis Trust Fund, Justice Bashir Wali, declared in Kano that the essence was to [...]
PHYSICALLY challenged persons in Edo State want Governor Adams Oshiomhole to build a rehabilitation centre which would have a school and computers centres to enable their children acquire basic education.
THE apparent disintegra-tion of the opposition parties in the country has engaged the attention of commentators in the media recently.
Controversy over the alleged diversion of N1.7 billion meant for the rehabilitation of federal roads in Cross River State from the 2009 budget has pitched the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omisore, against National Assembly members from the state.
The Indigenous Shipowners Associaion of Nigeria (ISAN) has arrested a fifth vessel in its bid to rid the nation’s coastal water of foreign ships engaged in illegal bunkering in contradiction of the Cabotage law.
By Tony Edike
ENUGU—A member of Board of Trustees (BOT) of Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Chief Sam Nkire, has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government of President Umar Yar’Adua, not to tamper with the price of petroleum products at this period of gross hunger, unemployment, insecurity and absolute frustration in the country.
Chief Nkire [...]
WORLD sprint sensation Usain Bolt last week received a cheque of $8.9 million from a Digicel, his local sponsors. Shelly-Ann Fraser, world women’s champion got $1.78 million. The total of $10.68 million were bonuses for their performance in the season that has just ended. This money is not the support that the company provides for Jamaican athletes.
A contagious buzz swept through football: the 1978 FIFA World Cup Argentinaâ„¢ was less than one year away. Supporters’ attention was distracted, however, by the kick-off of the maiden FIFA U-20 World Cup, which was to begin in Tunisia on 27 June 1977.
THE Federal Government has ruled out extension of the October 4 deadline for the submission of arms by militants in the Niger Delta region.
Trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) resumed the week on a bullish note as the value of listed equities appreciated by N85.26 billion.
By Ndahi Marama
MAIDUGURI — The Borno State Commissioner of Water Resources, Alhaji Abubakar Kyari has condemned the lackadaisical attitude of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for not tackling the nation’s power problem with all the seriousness it deserves for the past ten years.
During an interview with journalists at his Maiduguri resident, yesterday, [...]
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