A seven-man team from the UN Environment Programme, UNEP, has arrived to investigate the extent of lead poisoning which has killed many people, mostly children, in Zamfara, since May.
AKWA Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, yesterday, expressed appreciation to people of the state for their massive turn out and show of solidarity during his declaration for re-election at Uyo, on Monday.
Chairman of Izon Okosu-Otu (Ijaw Elders’ Council), Delta State, Chief Bare Etolor, has said Ijaw are not against Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s re-election but would resist party primaries/elections of Ijaw representatives conducted outside its territory as done in the past.
Senator Polycarp Ogbonna Nwite, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Political Matters is dead.
AS a demonstration of her determination to give the people of Ika Federal Constituency effective, qualitative and result oriented representation, a female Poeples Democratic Party, PDP, aspirant to the National Assembly in the 2011 elections, Dr. Isioma Okobah, has commenced free medical services to the people of Ika in Delta State.
NATIONAL President of the Ighele r’ Urhobo (youth wing) of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, in Delta State, Mr Avwerosuoghene Okoro, who was summoned on Wednesday, by the Police in Abraka, over the recent fracas in Eku, alleged, yesterday, that his life was under threat.
It is already five years that Chima Ubani passed on in a motor crash on his way from Maiduguri where
he had, as one of the leaders of the civil society, participated in a sensitisation rally organised by the labour movement to resist the plan by the Nigerian state to increase the cost of petroleum products and make life more miserable for the toiling poor masses of the country.
The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Inumidun Akande , has described the late Bankole Tanimose Oki, SAN, as a “legal colossus, a great orator and a community leader of high repute”.
The controversies surrounding the necessity or otherwise of a presidential assent to make the amendments to be Constitution Law is unfortunate. This is a feat that has not been achieved in Nigeria before, hence, we should pour accolades on the National Assembly for this history making feat instead of diminishing the achievement with the uncalled for controversy.
Dr. Sam Amadi, a lawyer, was recently nominated for the position of the Executive Chairman of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Residents of Ilaje Community at Majidun-Ikorodu area of Lagos State will never forget in a hurry, the events of Wednesday, September 15, 2010. It was the day, a 31- year-old Councillor, representing the Majidun at Ikorodu West Local Development Local Development Area, Idowu Felix Aro, was gruesomely assassinated in his apartment by unknown assailants.
FOR four young Nigerian agri-business entrepreneurs, Ikpegbu Tochukwu, Nonso Okafor, Wale Chase and Adesope Samuel, the first Harambe agri-business competition award day will remain ever green in their lives. Reason? It was the day they were rewarded with a monetary award of N7.5 million and training with the EDS, Fate Foundation and Ideabuilders towards building their agro initiatives.
THE Chief of Staff to the President, Chief Mike Oghiadohme, yesterday, said that the battle to recapture Edo State Government House from Governor Adams Oshiomhole by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is a task that must be accomplished in 2012.
WORRIED by the high level of insecurity in the country, especially in Abia and other South East states where kidnapping and other violent crimes have assumed a frightening dimension, Abia State government has called for the convening of a national security summit to x-ray the insecurity problem and seek a lasting solution to it.
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