THERE was pandemonium Tuesday at Kirikri area of Lagos State, when members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, branch of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum & Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, clashed with residents over alleged recklessness of the Tanker drivers operating in the area.
Nigeria’s Ibrahim Galadima yesterday failed in his bid to get elected into the all-powerful FIFA Executive Committee at the 33rd CAF General Assembly held in Sudan. The country is also without a representative in the Executive Committee of CAF.
THERE was pandemonium Tuesday at Kirikri area of Lagos State, when members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, branch of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum & Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, clashed with residents over alleged recklessness of the Tanker drivers operating in the area.
THE Federal Government, yesterday, flagged off the N30billion Benin-Abraka Expressway and assured that the road, which will be dualized will be completed within three years.
DOCTORS in Lagos are back on strike only two months after their November strike, which lasted 14 weeks, occasioning loss of lives of patients, especially mothers, children and emergency cases.
SOMETIMES, people want to engage in a war, which they cannot win. It is perhaps the case of sighting an antelope in the bush. You would want to pursue that fast-running animal for, you never can tell whether it has a bad leg. That is what the House of Representatives may be doing with a post-nomination President Jonathan.
Scientific talents, innovative ideas and intelligence were on display at the 7th national festival of sciences and quiz competition which recently held at Government Secondary School, Jabi, Abuja when students from 50 secondary schools cutting across 15 states of the Federation showcased their projects
AFTER a long period of contemplation, Kwara Patriots, a group noted for its historical opposition to the Saraki family, last week, struck a deal with Governor Bukola Saraki, the leader of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state in the ongoing battle of supremacy within the famed Saraki political family.
Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN’s dominance of Kwara State political landscape has further been strengthened by the defection to the party, of about 150,000 members of various political parties including the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Alliance Congress of Nigeria, ACN .
All around Richmond, folks are abuzz over Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, which opens this upcoming Saturday. But this past weekend, the VMFA welcomed an entirely different type of exhibition – Dynasty and Divinty: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria. The exhibition finds a natural home at the VMFA, where it sits nestled in with a very impressive collection of pan-African art — painstakingly curated by Richard Woodward — who said of Dynasty and Divinity that its place at the VMFA is “truly divine.”
(Femi Osofisan wrote this play especially for the 3rd Garden City Literary Festival which took place in Port Harcourt in December. The play was performed by the Theatre Arts Students of the University of Port Harcourt and Directed by Dr Emmanuel Emasealu, immediate past Head of Dept. of Theatre Arts at Uniport
The implementation of the Structural Adjustment Programme engineered by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in the 1980s ruined the economies of most African States. The resultant economic crisis led to withdrawal of subsidies from social services, retrenchment of workers, payment ad servicing of questionable debts, trade liberalization etc
Now that Isa Ayo Salami has been told by the National Judicial Service Commission that he can keep his job as the President of the Court of Appeal, he has stopped urinating inside the well that a few days ago he was publicly doing to ensure no other person could drink from, because he now has unrestricted access to the well
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, will today organize a special “Energy Day” event in Abuja.
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