THE political mantra not to rule out anything in the political terrain is an abiding lesson to all. Who would have imagined it at the peak of his tirades against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2007 that the same Atiku Abubakar would today be fighting the battle of his life to obtain the ticket of that “evil” party? Or would one have envisaged Chief Orji Uzor Kalu sneaking in and out of the nest of killers he once claimed to have woven a plot to kill him?
THE Emeritus Catholic Bishop of Issele-Uku, Rt Rev Emmanuel Otteh, has said that the decision of Governor Peter Obi to return schools taken over by government after the Nigerian civil war to their original owners would help reduce the ills in the society.
Fola Badmus, an indigene of Ondo State has been in dire need of help for the past one year. An overseas-based business man for many years, the cause of his predicament appears to be his decision to return home and settle in his dear country.
Women in Agriculture Association, WIAA, has urged the Federal Government to compel banks disbursing the N200 billion loan to farmers, to set aside part of the fund to finance women farmers in the country.
TRAINERS from Havering College of Further and Higher Education, UK, through its Education Partnership in Africa project in collaboration with Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Otto/Ijanikin, Lagos, held a 3-day workshop for selected secondary school teachers and lecturers in tertiary institutions which addressed skills gaps in innovative teaching in Nigeria to meet the Global Millennium Development Goals in education.
The spate of criminal activities in Imo State is on the rise again, as the traditional ruler of Okwuamarihe, Orsu local government area of Imo State, Eze Mike Ebighi, narrowly escaped assassination last Wednesday.
The desire of a Lagos-based businessman, Donatus Dunu, to own a choice property at the highbrow Ikoyi area of Lagos State, has seemingly turned into a nightmare.
BARELY twenty-four hours after the release of the revised timetable for the 2011 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP met yesterday for several hours to deliberate on it.
The nation’s pension assets hit a record N1.529 trillion, in 2009, according to the National Pension Commission, PenCom.
As one approached the residence of one of the factional chairmen of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Alhaji Lateef Salako, a.k.a. Eleweomo, one needed no soothsayer to tell him he was entering into a lion’s den.
President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to present a budget proposal for 2011 before a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday, next week.
Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Austin Opara, yesterday described opponents of the new proposal by the National Assembly to include lawmakers on the National Executive Committees of political parties in Nigeria as “insincere and myopic.”
THE Ondo Government has appointed Dr. Igbekele Ajibefun as the substantive Rector of the State-owned Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo, in Ondo State.
GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has described Senator Lekan Balogun’s call for protest against alleged partisanship of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adisa Baba Bolanta, as sheer mischief and parochialism.
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