THE United States and European Union, yesterday, condemned the spate of bombings and assassinations particularly by Islamic sect, Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Borno State capital which have killed more than 150 people so far this year and tasked President Goodluck Jonathan to fish out the perpetrators.
THE adage that it is not how well one starts a race that is important, but how one ends it, was apt for the Sixth Plateau State House of Assembly. It was engulfed in internal crisis and could not perform its legislative functions for almost five months until the end of its tenure on June 6 when the Seventh Assembly was inaugurated.
Prior to his election into the Senate to represent Kogi West Senatorial District in the Senate in 2007, Senator Smart Adeyemi was the National President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ from 1999 to 2006. At the Sixth Senate, he was Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs and he is the Vice Chairman of the Northern Senators’ Forum. Senator Adeyemi, who was born 18 August 1960, retained his seat in the recent National Assembly election despite intrigues within and outside his party directed against him.
In this interview ahead of the reconvening of the Senate, Adeyemi disclosed pressures on Senators by interest groups to slant the ministerial screening.
Trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, resumed the week on a bearish note, as the value of listed equities dropped by N32.29 billion.
When Bill Gates founded Microsoft 30 years ago, he began with the lofty goal: to put a computer on every desk, in every home. This vision may have been a fantasy to most people at the time, when you couldn’t even buy a PC at the store, and yet today, 1.2 billion people are using PCs with the Microsoft Windows operating system around the world.
Nokia Head of Solutions Sales, Mr. Praveen Shetty has disclosed that Nokia is committed to supporting local developers in building innovative applications on its proprietary platform – the Ovi store.
Operators in the insurance industry have called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay closer attention to the sector by responding promptly whenever fraud cases perpetrated in the sector are reported to the anti-graft body.
Lagos State Cooperative Societies have invested over N40 billion in various economic enterprises in Lagos State.
OUR national newspapers have been awash in recent times with reports about the salaries and expenses claims of our Senators and Representatives in the National Assembly.
Sierra Leonean President, Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma has appealed to owners of Sierra Leone based WAICA Reinsurance Plc (WAICA Re) to list the shares of the company on the stock exchange of the member-countries.
Managing Director/Chief Executive, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCOM), Mr. Mustapha Chike-Obi will deliver a keynote speech at the 12th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of International Chamber of Commerce Nigeria will hold holding Wednesday this week in Lagos.
Since Zain became Airtel in November 2010, the new company has introduced many customer related promotions and innovations. At the heart of these campaigns is perhaps it belief that the only way to grow customer base is to entrench the company in the heart of the customers.
Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ALTON), Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, last week repeated calls that the federal government should make the vandalisation of telecom infrastructure a capital offence to deter vandals from frustrating the efforts of telecom operators in Nigeria.
As the market for indigenous software shrinks in the face of lack of government support, participants at the just concluded Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) roundtable rose
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