The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, has sealed the premises of four telecommunications operators in Enugu
The Association of Senior Civil Servant of Nigeria, ASCSN, has accused the Federal Civil Service Commission , FCSC, of attempts to frustrate the recently introduced tenure policy of the Federal Government and insisted that deputy directors
who have passed promotion examinations be promoted forthwith
A former militant, who just graduated from the reorientation and rehabilitation course for former militants in Obubra, Cross River State, Mr. Ibi Seaboy, has called on the Federal Government to fish out the killers of late ex-commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Mr. Soboma George.
MRS Sarah Nnadzwa Jibril yesterday declared interest to contest the 2011 Presidential election under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, just as she said politics in Nigeria must be redefined.
A torrential rain that lasted two and half hours, midweek, left the ancient city of Kano prostrate as flood took over both public and residential buildings in the city.
RAMADAN should be a time to avoid being wasteful. Some Muslims are unable to distinguish between their needs and luxuries, hence they engage in wasteful spending. Whether in the varieties of food that they savour each night, or by the other types of spending. If you have more, remember the have nots. The act of giving is ibadah, and no act of ibadah can be said to be too much
RECENTLY, the highly revered Oba of Benin, due to compelling reasons of the utter helplessness of the ordinary man, had to take practical steps to curb the rising crime rate in the state. Before the welcome intervention of the Royal Father, Edo State was literally under siege. No day passed without reports of armed robbers’ gory operations.
The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, will not reserve its presidential ticket for either Generals Muhammadu Buhari or Ibrahim Babangida in case they join the party unless they agree with its ethos
The Central Bank of Nigeria, yesterday, set up a 7-man inter-ministerial committee to evaluate and approve projects that will benefit from the N300 billion funding it has set aside for power and aviation resuscitation in the country. The committee members are contained in the fresh guideline set by the apex bank on the fund.
GOVERNOR Theodore Orji yesterday inaugurated his newly appointed commissioners, with a strong warning against any involvement in corruption and avarice
LAST week, I praised Ima Niboro, the President’s Special Advisor on Media and Publicity, for his writing skills and eloquence. But I also complained about the fact that I and many other journalists have felt frustrated by his failure to respond to our polite requests for advice, information and official statements.
FINANCE Minister Olusegun Aganga calls it a paradox, the people felt the pain – as Nigeria ’s economy grows, unemployment increases, poverty grows.
THEY are two worlds apart: Ibadan in Nigeria and New York, United States. Both have tales of (in)sanity, intolerance and cries of revenge rather than rationality or forgiveness. Humanity has immense propensities towards religious blow-outs ignited by the two dominant religions: Christianity and Islam.
PORT HARCOURT—NO death has generated more serious attention in Rivers State in the last five years than that of the former Commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, and repentant militant leader, Soboma George. He meant different things to different people in the state and beyond.
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