The Edo State Government plans to acquire 73 tractors for distribution to farmers to boost food production, according to Dr Tunde Lakoju, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources.
By Innocent Anaba
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has established the Gani Fawenhimi Award for Human Rights and Social Justice. The association after its National Executive Council, NEC meeting in Yola, Adamawa State, said “NEC adopted the recommendation of the NBA Human Rights Institute, NBA-HRI, to establish a signature award for the promotion of human [...]
By Kayode Matthew
With the probe by the legislative arm of government hanging on his neck like the Sword of Damocles, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN of Lagos State last Monday, marked his 1000 days in office in celebration of his many achievements within such a short period of time which many have described as [...]
The Katsina State Government plans to cultivate 3,000 hectares of irrigable land at Jibia irrigation site in 2010.
Gov. Ibrahim Shema made this known on Tuesday at Dabiran irrigation site at the launching of this year’s fertiliser sales for irrigation farming.
Ondo state is known for cocoa cultivation in Nigeria and the state is one of the cocoa producing states that participated actively in the cocoa re-birth program initiated by Obasanjo administration.
By Awa Kalu
In our earlier instalments on Justice Kutigi’s valedictory session upon his retirement as Chief Justice of
Nigeria, attention was drawn to the various sub-themes on which speakers at the occasion dilated.
Before we juggle your memory on the critical areas on which the individual speakers bared their minds, it is important [...]
Nigeria’s capacity to move and connect manufacturers with international markets around the world was still low, the World Bank has said.The bank disclosed this in its 2010 Logistics Performance Index (LPI) released in Abuja, recently.
Profiliant Development Resources Limited, a sales and business development consultancy, has finalised plans to hold this year’s edition of the Anatomy-of-Selling (AOS) programme.
Dr Teslim Sanusi, President, Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB), on Wednesday urged the National Assembly not to repeal the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Sanusi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the move would further have a negative effect on industry. Sanusi said that s
Barely 24 hours after armed gunmen launched a vicious attack on the Amassoma branch of the United Bank For Africa, UBA, in the Southern Ijaw council area of Bayelsa State in which five persons, including two policemen and an eight months old baby lost their lives, an unknown gunmen struck yet again Wednesday at Opolo in the heart of Yenagoa, the state capital and abducted Mrs. Florentina Emmanuel, the 73-year-old mother of a National Assembly member, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, representing Bayelsa Central senatorial district.
A Climatologist, Prof. Temi Ologunorisa, on Wednesday, advised Nigerians to find ways to mitigate the effects of the prevailing heat conditions. The expert told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the excessive heat being experienced in most parts of the country was part of the effects of global warming.
Over 5,000 members of ‘Project Mutu 2011’ in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State have endorsed the member representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives, Mr . Nicholas Mutu to re-run, come 2011 general elections.
DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has charged Commissioners in the state to regularly organise training workshops for their staff to enhance capacity building as well as to clearly provide leadership for the workforce.
The global economy is recovering, part-ly due to the fiscal and monetary support. The cost of combating the crisis around the world runs into trillions of dollars, but recovery would have been slower without the policy support, IMF economists say.
News
- UN split on Syria action even as killings spike
- Group wades into Anambra doctors’ strike
- Fuel subsidy: Belgore committee begins sitting
- Tough one for Nyako as embittered Speaker takes over in Adamawa
- 25 Boko Haram members nabbed in Enugu
- Fashola gives N17m to Ikeja bomb blast families
- Wamakko’s sack : Mixed reactions greet in Sokoto



