THE Federal Government, yesterday, said it was ready to complete the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, as part of efforts to revamp the company and enable it to provide efficient service to consumers.
When these teenagers, Chukwuebuka Orakwue and Oliver Orakwue, who were indegenes of Ifite-Ogwari area of Anambra State, had the opportunity of relocating to Lagos State, last May , a place they have always savored and constantly relished to visit, they embraced the offer with open hands, without an inkling of what awaits them.
IT is a little over a year that Lamido Sanusi Lamido swept away eight bank chief executives, and some of their directors, in a move the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor said would sanitise the banks and make them more accountable to the depositors and their shareholders.
AHEAD of formal declaration by President Goodluck Jonathan to contest 2011 presidential election, a campaign team headed by Vice-President Namadi Sambo and former Chairman of Board of Trustees, BoT, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, is already in place.
Their zeal for work was palpable; which is why everyday these workers, mostly women, some with their babies resting firmly on their backs, defy sun and rain as they storm major streets of Minna, the Niger state capital, with brooms and rakes in their hands to keep the streets clean. And with time, they succeeded in transforming the once dirty environment to a more friendly and habitable place.
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may release the timetable for 2011 elections this week following the signing of Electoral Act by President Goodluck Jonathan last Friday.
Former Nigeria assistant coach Joe Erico believes new head coach Samson Siasia deserves to earn as much as Lars Lagerback did during his short tenure.
The new record by the indigenous firm has vindicated those making case for local content, who had argued that indigenous contractors could do better than the foreign contractors and reduce capital flight.
The ambition of Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege, the gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, received a boost, weekend, with his endorsement by the former gubernatorial candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state in the 2007 polls, Chief Peter Okocha, who recently returned to the PDP, with his group.
PETER Odemwingie opened his Albion account in style in Saturday’s 1-0 win over Sunderland and promptly set himself a target of at least ten goals this season.
Can the Sports Ministry drag their feet over a directive from the Presidential Task Force and be justified?
Will the Sports Minister, Ibrahim Isa Bio see the position of the PTF as interference and take a different position?
A TOTAL of 174 open market stalls as well as a rehabilitated science laboratory valued at over N100 million built by the NNPC/Pan Ocean Oil Corporation Joint Venture in Edo and Delta States have been handed over to the benefitting communities.
THE Oyo State Police Command, has arrested nine suspects in connection with Sunday’s fracas that erupted between two Islamic sects in Ibadan. The mayhem left 13 people injured when disagreement arose over mode of worship.
THE Akwa Ibom State Government is to release N3.8billion mobilization to Messrs CCECC, the contractors handling the construction and dualisation of Aka–Nung Udoe Road project, to enable the firm commence work on site without.
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