WEST African Examination Council, WAEC, last Thursday, released results of the May/June 2010 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASCE, with only 337,071 candidates, representing 24.94 per cent, obtaining credits in English Language, Mathematics and at least three other subjects which are the requirements for admission into tertiary institutions.
I WOULD like to applaud some fellow Nigerians who belong to my school of thought. In particular I refer to a write up by Mr. Joel Nwokeoma in the Punch of August 9, 2010 titled: “Can bloody revolution take place in Nigeria?”
THE House of Representatives Committee on Governmental Affairs said, yesterday, it would hold a public hearing soon on a Bill that seeks to compel the President to submit names of ministerial nominees to the Senate with the
ministries he intends to deploy them attached
Eminent Nigerians including former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,former Lagos State Governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, pioneer chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mallam Nuhu Ribadu yesterday
called on the Federal Government to honour late business mogul and winner of annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola.
THE extended interview granted by Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim, who was a member of the Nigerian Parliament in the 1960s, published in the Sun newspaper of Saturday, August 14, 2010, is an outright diatribe on the minorities of this country, President Goodluck Jonathan and some prominent Nigerians of Southern extraction.
The Federal Government yesterday warned broadcast stations to desist from taking sides in reporting the forthcoming 2011 election
PAINED by what he said was the underdevelopment of his constituency, Mr. Ebikeme Clark, son of South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has joined the race for Burutu Federal Constituency to run for the Federal House of Representatives come 2011, promising to make a drastic change.
Students of state-owned universities in the South East geo-political zone may remain at home indefinitely as their lecturers have vowed to continue their strike until the state governments fully implement the recent ASUU-FG agreement
ORGANISED labour in the nation’s electricity industry has directed workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to begin an indefinite industrial action from today, over unpaid monetisation arrears among others.
Central Bank of Nigeria yesterday said it has set aside the sum of N300 billion as intervention fund for power and aviation sector. The fund has been released to the Bank of Industry for disbursement to companies in the power and aviation industries
AT least eight Governors have been penciled for the Adolphus Karibi-Whyte Leadership Honours Award, in appreciation of their peace, development and transformative initiatives in governance.
Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, yesterday, reiterated the commitment of the commission to safeguard the interest of subscribers in the telecom industry
THE debate over the controversial zoning principle, took a new twist, yesterday, with several prominent political leaders in the South-east advocating that the Presidency be zoned to the South-East in 2015.
THERE was fear in the Town area of Port Harcourt last night that a former MEND Commander and repentant militant leader, Soboma George was dead. When contacted on phone, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Suleiman Aba said he also heard the story. According to him, there were reports that he was shot dead by some suspected cultists around Nembe street in Borikiri area of the state capital.
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