To make the electoral process more inclusive and participatory, former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), has called for a law that would enable Nigerians living abroad to vote and be voted for during elections
THE Senate has confirmed the nominations of Dr. Mohammed Wali and Dr. Christopher Iyimoga as Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Commissioners
THE Edo State government, yesterday, sealed off the premises of the National Business and Technical Examination Board, NABTEB, over alleged failure by the Board to comply with the Personal Income Tax Act.
The Board had last week, sealed off the Uselu Psychiatric Hospital and the Benin Owena River Basin Authority over similar offence.
THE Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, the regulator of the oil and gas industry, is alarmed at the level of capital flight from the country, through fuel importation
The robbers numbering about eight, as gathered, stormed the church at about 1am, during a vigil on July 18, 2010. They reportedly positioned themselves strategically, pretending to be worshipers, with two of them at the entrance of the church apparently to alert their colleagues of any counter attack.
THE Federal Government, yesterday, set up a technical committee to conduct a detailed analysis of the design for the construction of N1 trillion coastal road in the Niger Delta region.
We are faced with the choice of either compiling a new voters’ register in less than eight weeks or…salvaging the existing register in 16 weeks. Either of the two presents a very difficult choice indeed. – Professor Attahiru Jega, INEC Chairman, Thursday, July 22.
I’ve been having an affair with one of my husband’s good friends for the past six months and I think I’m in love with him. He’s also married and we’re all good family friends. I’m really confused about the relationship as he carries on as if nothing is between us when we’re with other people, yet he shows a lot of passion in the bedroom.
FOR all the wrong reasons the South East is in the news again. The kidnap of four journalists seems to be the worse crime that taken place in years. Our panellists agree that kidnap – and other crimes – is simple manifestations of the festering wounds of a nation that localises situations, instead of seeing their implications for the country. Are crimes in the South East? Yes. Are there crimes in other parts of Nigeria? Yes! Nigerians may have to be grateful to the kidnappers for calling attention to a national problem that is located in the South East…
A coalition of Nigerian youths from the North, South-East and South- South Tuesday took their turns to address the meeting of the Northern Governors’ Forum, NGF, on the desirability or otherwise of supporting President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 election
FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, hailed the position of the northern state governors supporting the zoning arrangement of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, describing their actions as uncommon courage and patriotism to the country.
While nations of the world depend on output from local content for global competitiveness
, participants at the just concluded national workshop on strenthening innovation and capacity building in the manufacturing sector rose up from the conference, saying that unemployment will remain unabted in the system except attention is paid to low hanging technology fruits which have the capacity to create one million jobs acrooss different sectors of the Nigerian economy .
he nation’s political class is yet to buy into information and communications technology as a tool for national development, says Acting Chairman of the Board of National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Mallam Mohammed Bullama.
CENTRAL Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, said, yesterday, that deposit money banks in the country were strategizing towards a new phase of strengthening their capitalization.
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