From the monthly archives: March 2011

Energy drinks: Are they dangerous to health?

On March 31, 2011 · In Features

IS all the hoopla surrounding energy drinks is just hysteria, or fact? Sure, drinking them by the six-pack isn’t a good idea, but in moderation, a single can of cold, tangy, eyeball-popping energy fuel can’t be bad for you . . .Or can it?

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NBA hosts stakeholders on April elections

On March 31, 2011 · In Law & Human Rights

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, last week, gathered major stakeholders at Abuja for a consultative dialogue on the level of preparedness of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the forthcoming polls. The event, tagged: “President’s Consultative Dialogue” has as its theme, “Are we ready for the April 2011 election?”

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Hyphenating art logic

On March 31, 2011 · In The Arts

After a successful hosting of his last solo exhibition titled, What they did not teach me in Art School in 2009, where he argued about the state of art students after graduation, the Nsukka trained painter

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MTN Foundation deploys virtual libraries to lift tertiary institutions

On March 31, 2011 · In Education

At the 16th convocation ceremony of the University of Ado-Ekiti in 2007, Dr. Larry Jones-Esan, the Director of Studies at the London Academy for Higher Education, Stratford and London gave a keynote address that startled his audience

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CDC holds voters education on new Electoral Act

On March 31, 2011 · In Law & Human Rights

The inconsistencies in the Electoral Act 2010 as Amended again came to the front burner at Osogbo, the Osun State capital during the enlarged South West zonal workshop on the amendment of the Act, organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development with support from the United Nations Development Programme

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Tasking Art Journalists in season of Elections

On March 31, 2011 · In The Arts

The quarterly programme in its 4th edition has become a critical platform through which culture journalists, industry leaders and culture stakeholders from across all the parastatals in the Ministry of Culture come together to engage not only their trade

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Lagos engages 300 for free Medical Mission

On March 31, 2011 · In Features

AT least 300 medical workers consisting of medical doctors, pharmacist, nurses, nutritionist, health educators and laboratory scientists are engaged in the on-going 24th free Medical Mission at Somolu, Somolu local government area

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Students in mixed reactions over cowbell Maths exam

On March 31, 2011 · In Education

Three hundred and seventy six students from several public and private secondary schools at Amuwo Odofin Community Senior Secondary School, Mile 2, Lagos, centre, sat for the first stage examination of 2011 Cowbell National Secondary Schools Mathematics competition,

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7.85% economic growth due to global recovery

On March 31, 2011 · In Business

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, has attributed the 7.85 per cent econo-mic growth witnessed in Nigeria to the global economic recovery which impacted positively on the economy.

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Politics Of Minimum Wage

On March 31, 2011 · In Editorial

WHEN politicians are out for votes they can postpone problems, pretend to solve some and behave as if they no longer know what the issues are. The search for votes is too important to be left at the whims of labour, which threatened to disrupt the elections. It is time to play politics with the minimum wage.

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PDP plans to disrupt polls – Oshiomhole

On March 31, 2011 · In News

ACTIVITIES were brought to a standstill for several hours in the ancient city of Benin, yesterday, when Governor Adams Oshiomhole met with thousands of market women and youths numbering over 700, urging them to ensure that they protect their votes at weekend’s election. Oshiomhole raised alarm that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had perfected plans to disrupt elections in the state.

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New Era Foundation empowers youths with scholaship

On March 31, 2011 · In Features

In a bid to keep a promise long made by The New Era Foundation (NEF), ‘in service to humanity’ and ‘to empower the youth in the cause of their disciplines and academics’, a philanthropist, Chief Razak Okoya recently gave N100, 000 scholarship each to members of the Council of One-Day governors. They were products of one of the numerous NEF activities.

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Nobody can rig polls in C-River – INEC

On March 31, 2011 · In News

Ahead of Saturday’s National Assembly elections in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured political parties in Cross River State, that the commission had put everything in place to ensure that there was no rigging.

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We’ll reinstate sacked Ogun workers – Olurin

On March 30, 2011 · In News

OGUN State Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Adetunji Olurin, yesterday, said that civil servants being forced to support the aspiration of Governor Olugbenga Daniel’s protege, Mr. Gboyega Isiaka would be protected.

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