NATIONAL Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has called on Edo State Government to relocate erosion-risk community in Etsako West Local Government Area to avoid further loss of lives and property.
Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji, has directed the management of the 18 companies created out of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to start paying the workers a 50 per cent salary increase from this month.
Shareholders of Sterling Bank Plc and Equitorial Trust Bank, ETB, Limited have approved the merger of the banks, paving the way for Sterling Bank to assume all assets and liabilities of ETB and becoming one of the biggest banks in the country.
Militants from oil producing Niger Delta on Wednesday threatened to bomb areas in the capital Abuja, scene of last year’s Independence Day bombings which killed 12 people.
WHEN, at the middle of a public presentation, Malcolm X (1925-1965) alluded to when he was in prison, he was surprised that people were surprised.
The decomposing body of the 22-year-old son of a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was found dangling under the old Makurdi Bridge, Makurdi, Benue State capital, yesterday, in what seemed like suicide.
The new Christian terror group in the North, Akhwat Akwop, which was apparently formed to checkmate the activities of the extremist Muslim Boko Haram sect has asked nationals of five Islamic countries suspected to be funding the Boko Haram to leave the country.
Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima said yesterday, that a top commander of the deadly sect, Boko Haram has been arrested alongside five other members. With the arrest, a relieved Governor Shettima who confirmed it to the Associated Press said, “I believe the worst is over”.
I DON’T know about you. But for me, the speech made by President Goodluck Jonathan at the National Christian Centre, Abuja last Sunday, was the most soulful he has ever made. The President is not known for his biting, piercing or inspiring speeches. Oratory is not one of his special attributes.
IT was true when a famous writer of blessed memory, Harvey Firestone, said: “You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself”. Calvin Coolidge, another writer crowned it this way: “No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave”.
THE weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday rose from a prolonged session with an approval for the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, to embark on the provision of an electronic national identity card for all Nigerians of 18 years old and above, at the cost of N30.66 billion.
Nigeria have been left ‘deeply disappointed’ after CAF poked the country in the eye by handing South Africa the rights to host the 2013 African Nations Cup tournament.
Each member of the new Federation Cup champions, Heartland Football Cl;ub of Owerri received N1million from the government of Imo state.
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