THE Catholic Church, has disclosed its intention to collaborate with the Edo State government in its schools’ development programme. It has appealed to the state government to return schools to the original owners.
Determined to deliver its corporate social responsibility to the society, the construction giant, Julius Berger Plc, has embarked on upgrading of infrastructural facilities in government primary schools across the country.
The persistent conflict in the Niger Delta has been blamed on the federal government’s inability or unwillingness to study and implement recommendations in the reports handed over to it over the years.
WORRIED by the rate of death caused by commercial motorcycles popularly known as Okada, the Ondo State government may ban them from transporting pregnant mothers and under-aged children in the State.
GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has told the new General Officer Commanding, 2 Mechanised Division, Nigeria Army, Ibadan, Brig.-Gen. Muhammed Abubakar to regard activities of members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, near the barrack as illegal.
FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan not to be “stampeded” into merging the Nigeria Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, as being canvassed in some quarters.
AN aide to Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said he has no case to answer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
By John Ighodaro
CALABAR—The Cross River State Government, has ordered the arrest and detention of Boje chiefs, three days after the communal clash between the Nsadop and Boje communities in Boki Local Government Area broke out in the state.
The state government, has also asked for the withdrawal of the chiefs’ certificates of recognition [...]
Nigerian Theatre has remained a myth, or at best, a mirage. We saw it coming, then it was not there. Truly Nigerian Theatre died with the Rat Race, poverty and lack of education will not allow Theatre to take root in Nigeria especially after independence.
THERE is no gainsaying the fact that workers have been the worst victims of economic crisis across the globe with countries like Nigeria rather than implement policies to reverse the trend, are dogmatically implementing policies that compound the woes of workers.
THE Military Pension Board, MPB, has dismissed the claims by a cross section of ex-servicemen that it was given N70 billion by the Federal Government to pay their arrears, including 12.5% and 15% salary-increase arrears which they alleged were either partially paid or not paid at all.
General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the club, Chief Fan Ndubuoke who gave the order in Owerri on Monday, also directed that a youth feeder team made up of players between the ages of 15 and 18 be instituted immediately.
The minister of sports and chairman national sports commission, Ibrahim Isa Bio has said he has lost contact with embattled Nigerian CAF and FIFA executive committee member, Dr Amos Adamu; since he was provisionally suspended by the world football governing body over the alleged cash for vote scandal.
Education stakeholders under the auspices of Ikorodu Division Human Resource Development Board brain stormed recently on modality of finding lasting solution to the causes of the abysmal failures of our children and wards in their examinations.
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