Kano division of the National Industrial Court has ordered the Afribank Nigeria Plc and its Managing Director, Nebolisa Arah, to pay three of its former staff, Maikudi Aminu, Umar Isah and Nura Jaafaru, their redundancy benefits.
As more Nigerian women and their counterparts the world overb wait until their 30s and 40s to have children, they are more willing to engage in a variety of sexual activities to capitalise on their remaining childbearing years, according to new research by psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin.
LAGOS State House of Assembly recently honoured former Governor of Lagos, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande with its Legislative Lifetime Outstanding Performance Award. The Federal Government followed with a national honour for the man who has remained a reference point for developing Lagos, 27 years after he left office.
To prevent another disaster in the Ejigbo area of Lagos, the indigenes, under the banner of Ejigbo Indigenes Forum, EIF, have appealed to the Federal and Lagos State governments to allow them access to their sacred places of worship in the area.
Bayelsa State government has vowed to tackle the challenges facing its education sector.
Deputy Governor of the state, Chief Werinipre Seibarugu, made the remark when members of the Alumni Association of the University of Nigeria, UNN, led by its National President, Dr. Nwanne Chioke, called on him in Yenagoa, the state capital.
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…
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan is teaming up with 29 other African Heads of State in Tanzania as the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) – A coalition of 30 African Heads of State working to end deaths from malaria convene a special session at the African Union Summit to review progress on malaria control and discuss ways to further accelerate progress against the disorder.
THE Northern Governors’ Forum, yesterday, failed to reach a consensus on the contentious issue of zoning. However, the communiqué issued by the governors at the end of the meeting insisted that the 1999 Constitution did not bar any individual from seeking any office….
Experts have identified science-based technology and deductive reasoning as panacea to many clinical problems in the country.
IT was a season of approval for the presumed ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest next year’s elections as it received boosts from his South-South geo-political zone and the Kaduna State chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday.
THE on-going Eko Free Health Mission and other health initiatives of the Lagos State government would not have achieved much success but for the regular payment of taxes by Lagosians.
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and its partners in Nigeria, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) have strongly urged the government of Nigeria to take immediate steps to follow recommendations from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) and more aggressively address the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents in the country.
The Asagba of Asaba, HRH Prof. Chike Edozien, has urged the Nigerian Computer Society, NSC, to do all it can to help the nation automate the electoral process, so that the nation will forthwith experience peaceful transitions through credible elections.
Saturday July 16, 2010 was a day the residents of Akinbayode Street in Papa-Ajao area of Lagos will never forget in a hurry due to an early morning inferno that gutted a two-storey building in the area.Nothing was salvaged from the inferno.
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