Calabar has become a sweet experience for the Athletics Federation of Nigeria and Mobil Producing Nigeria, operators of the NNPC/MPN Joint Venture.
It is unfortunate — Femi Gbaja, House Of Reps, Minority Whip
The motion raised on suspension could have been for a month, two weeks, but it was indefinite and that is unfortunate. What it means is that it will run to the end of the suspension.
NO FEWER than 15 houses, including shops and other properties worth hundreds of millions of Naira were burnt last Wednesday when militants youths from Okauiga Nkwoegwu autonomous community, Abia state, attacked their neighbouring Umuosu autonomous community.
SHELL Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Western Division has given capacity training to over 2,500 Niger_Delta youths in welding/fabrication, electrical installation, fashion design, catering, automobile repairs, computer repairs, secretariat studies and other vocations in the last 10 years to make them productively engaged in life.
Reprieve has come the way of 72 inmates at the Suleja Prisons, in Niger State , following the decision of the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory , Justice Hassan Gunmi, to set them free from the various charges upon which their incarceration was predicated.
In determination to reduce human trafficking from Nigeria to Europe, the European Union (EU), International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Department for Equal Opportunities (DEO) and Counter Trafficking Commission (Italy) will launch a N220 million project in Nigeria.
“We need a total overhaul of the Board of DESOPADEC in order for our suffering people to benefit from their oil wealth and these is why the failed Board of the Commission must be sacked now by our amiable Governor and inject a new blood into the Commission†he stated
As the 2010 Christian pilgrimage exercise draws closer, the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) has announced the new package for intending pilgrims going to Rome and Israel with a marginal increase as against that of last year.
“I have not seen any formal letter to the Speaker or any letter distributed as we normally do in the chambers to members when there is an allegation against leadership of the House. Nobody has come out with any paper. What we have been seeing so far is cuttings from newspaper and flyers,†he explained.
THE process of appointing a new Deji of Akureland kicked off in Akure yesterday as the Ojijigogun Ruling House expected to nominate a candidate appointed their Chairman and Secretary.
NIGER Delta Youth Movement (NDYM), yesterday, urged President Goodluck Jonathan not to give in to the blackmail of a group of self_styled Northern leaders, allegedly packaged by former military President, General Ibrahim Babaginda, ex_Vice President Atiku Abubakar and others to stop him form exercising his basic constitutional rights in 2011.
A 26 years old student of the University of Ado Ekiti , Ojo Roseline Temitope, who had been partially blinded for about six months has now regained her sight following a surgical operation she underwent at the Ophthalmological Centre, University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti
FOLLOWING last Tuesday, June 23 eruption of violence at the chambers of the Federal House of Representatives, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, the next , summoned the speaker, Dimeji Bankole, to the National Secretariat of the party.
THE Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is dug in a battle with Senator Alphonsus Igbeke who was recently sworn in as the Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial District over an alleged fraud predating his emergence as a senator.
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