From the monthly archives: January 2010

Customs to enhance etransactions in Nation’s ports

On January 31, 2010 · In Business

The Nigerian Custom Service (NCS) has put in place measures to ensure that transactions in all the ports are done in electronic catchment in the near future ensure.

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Rights Issue : Oando positioning for local,global competitiveness

On January 31, 2010 · In Business

FOLLOWING its ongo ng over N20 billion Rights Issue, Oando Plc is gearing up for both local and global competition which will take the centre stage when the petroleum sector is fully deregulated in Nigeria.

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Rep warns against anarchy

On January 31, 2010 · In News

A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Samson Osagie, has called on all those holding the nation to ransom not to allow it gravitate towards anarchy.

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Rights Issue: Interlinked Technologies set for turnaround

On January 31, 2010 · In Business

INTERLINKED Technolgies Plc is set for a complete turnaround as management has promised to use the proceeds from its ongoing Rights Issue to reposition the company.

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Constitute inter-ministerial committee on Cabotage implementation, FG charged

On January 31, 2010 · In Business

The federal government has been Charged to constitute an inter-ministerial committee for the effective implementation of the Cabotage Act.

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Selling Africa’s growth story a challenge

On January 31, 2010 · In Business

Africa set out its stall in Davos this week, but selling the continent as an investment destination is tough.Despite recent macroeconomic reforms and an impressive growth outlook, many investors remain wary of Africa

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A new bride?

On January 31, 2010 · In Life with Treena Kwenta

Hi readers! I was anxious to know how Patrick, Seb’s youngest brother, who had been reluctant to go spend time with his brother in Ikeja on account of his grudge against Belinda, was able to spend more than the two days he had envisaged without an earthquake rocking the place.

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Acquire a skill and be self reliant

On January 31, 2010 · In Vista

The recent uproar in the financial sector where a large number of people lost their jobs and means of livelihood, has further brought to the fore, the grave need to be self employed, independent and self reliant.

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MEND calls off ceasefire

On January 31, 2010 · In News

MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), weekend, called off the unilateral fire it declared, Sunday, October 25, 2009 , as exclusively reported by Vanguard, two days ago, but some ex-militant leaders, yesterday, frowned at the plan to resume fresh hostilities.

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Why literary education is on decline —Don

On January 31, 2010 · In Latest News

Professor Aduke Adebayo of the Department of Modern European Languages of the University of Ibadan (UI) has identified poverty as a major obstacle to the study of literature in Nigeria. In an inaugural lecture, titled,
“The Nature and Functions of Literature: The Comparatist’s Perspective,” delivered  at the university, she listed the advantages of literature [...]

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Remembering my benefactors(2)

On January 31, 2010 · In Viewpoint

The draft speech was a master piece but when the time came for its delivery on the lawn of the State House in Marina, His Eminence just put it in his pocket and very much improved upon it with his blunt language.

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Not in their names

On January 31, 2010 · In Viewpoint

The good people of Jos are once again been terrorized by a handful of their idle, disenfranchised and obviously ignorant brothers and sisters. They conveniently tag the mayhem and anarchy ‘religious’, there is absolutely nothing religious about killing and maiming your own people.

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ANAMBRA : The challenge of violence-free polls

On January 31, 2010 · In Viewpoint

The civil war had come and gone by the mid-seventies when our generation got introduced to Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ in secondary school. It was (and still is) such an epic creative narrative that first brought the rich Igbo culture into our world-view – the names, the language, the food, the proverbs and the heroism.

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Nigeria’s political structure on the brink, bishop warns

On January 31, 2010 · In News

•Extols Alaere Alaibe at memorial service

By Samuel  Oyadongha

Yenagoa – The Bishop of Bomadi Vicariate, Hyacinth Egbebo, yesterday, lamented the state of affairs in the country, saying the nation’s political structure was on the brink.

He submitted that if this was allowed to happen, members of the National Assembly would be held responsible.

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