Mr. Frank Nneji is the managing director of ABC Transport Plc. He recently withdrew his luxury bus from plying some parts of the country, citing the poor state of roads in the affected areas. In this interview, Mr. Nneji calls for increased funding for the road sector. Excerpts
LET’S look at the Lagos-Benin highway. Many [...]
Nigeria’s Green Eagles have been valued at N1 billion by the Nigeria Football Federation as the Glass House seeks to renegotiate their sponsorship deal for the senior national team.
Events of the April 28, 2007 Governorship Elections in Imo State can be likened to the events of the night of February 25, 1964 in Miami Beach, Florida in many ways: High drama, suspense, surprise, shock and above all, the triumph of courage and careful planning.
By Chukwuma Nwakanma
Id-El-Kabir is the festival that marks the end of Hajj, the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, one of the five pillars of Islam.
It is traditionally celebrated by Moslems around the world with the slaughtering of domestic animals, especially rams, in commemoration of Prophet Ibrahim’s submission to the will of Allah. Traditionally, the [...]
By Inalegwu Shaibu
ABUJA—The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Dimeji Bankole has charged the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS) to sanction corrupt leaders within the sub-region.
Bankole gave the charge at the West African Regional Roundtable Meeting of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja, following the admission by heads of governments of [...]
By Chidi Nkwopara
OWERRI—The people of Owerri Municipality have expressed displeasure over what they called “the marginalisation of the area in the creation of local government development areas, since the inception of the current democratic dispensation.â€
Disclosing the position of his people on the matter before the Imo State House of Assembly, the member representing [...]
The Nasarawa State Government has condemned the standard of accommodation secured for its pilgrims in Mecca by the National Hajj Commission (NAHCOM), saying the area lacks proper sanitation.
The state’s Amirul Hajj and the Andoma of Doma, Alhaji Ahmadu Ogah, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Mecca that his team found [...]
By AbdulSalam Muhammad
KANO—The National Chairman of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief Edwin Ume Ezeoke, has attributed the crisis rocking the PDP dominated federal legislative chambers as an indication that the ruling party has failed the country.
Chief Edwin Ume Ezeoke, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Second Republic, spoke [...]
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife Dame Patience Jonathan, will between December 4 and 6 play host to the National Association of Ijaw Female Students (NAIFS) whose bi-annual convention is billed for Abuja within the period.
By Tony Edike
ENUGU—THE new Digital Mapping of Enugu State, which would capture and show all the physical features, topography and landscape of the state is to cost the state government N467 million.
Already, a team from a South African-based company, Southern Mapping Company awarded the contract, which will work in collaboration with the Enugu [...]
By Emeka Mamah
KADUNA — The successful presentation of this year’s budget to the two chambers of the National Assembly today will not guarantee it’s early passage, sources have told Vanguard.
It was learnt that the Senate is not comfortable with what it described as “undue radicalism†on the part of the Speaker of the [...]
By Emmanuel Elebeke
LAGOS—Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State announced that arrangement had been concluded by the state government to conduct the local government election in the state, adding that about 3,000 persons would be recruited into the State Civil Service, next year.
He also said the state plans to create more local development areas.
[...]
By Anayo Okoli
Umuahia—Abia State Deputy Governor, Mr Chris Akomas has described Microfinance Banks as veritable tool for the empowerment of the rural masses to change their lives for the better.
Akomas who spoke when the Abia State Chapter of Association of Microfinance Institutions (AMFI/Abia) paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Umuahia, commended [...]
By Patience Ogbodo
BAUCHI — THE President of Bauchi State chapter of All Nigerian Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Comrade Abdullahi Ibrahim Hamza, has cautioned students in all secondary schools in the state against exam malpractice, just as he advised them to be committed in their academic activities.
Hamza who is also the [...]
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