LAST week, Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, stormed the Bank of Industry along the Marina in Lagos. He was on a job creation drives.
The Togo football federation says former national team goalkeeper Charles Balogou was among six people killed when a bus carrying players and officials from Etoile Filante Football club plunged into a ravine and caught fire.
Nothing better illustrates the crucial role that science must play in farming in Africa than the contrasts in agricultural productivity between our continent and the world as a whole. For while food productivity has increased globally by 140 per cent in recent decades, the figures for sub-Saharan Africa over the same period show a fall.
The Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to catering for the housing needs of the low income segment of the population.
As part of its global re-structuring plans aimed at focusing the telecommunications (telecoms) equipment maker on more profitable mobile broadband business, Nokia Siemens Networks has announce plans to cut 17,000 jobs, representing 23 per cent of its workforce worldwide, to save about $1.35 billion a year.
MERIT Health care Nigeria Ltd is set to launch into the Nigerian market Bioflor (Sacharomyces boulardi) – the first probiotic formulation with anti-diarrhoea activity. Manufactured in france by Biocodex, the drug is used in etiological and symptomatic treatment of diarrhoea, the world’s fifth biggest cause of death.
ENCOMIUM has continued to pour in as late Oreki II, Ovie of Oghara Kingdom in Delta State, is laid to rest.
THE Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, may have concluded plans to sanction the owners of the vessel, ‘M.T. Britaina U, which exploded and killed two persons at the Marina in Lagos.
“Six years after scrapping toll gates on major high ways, the Federal Government is to reintroduce them to raise funds for road maintenance in the country”. The preceding is the opening paragraph of a report titled “FG to Reintroduce Toll Gates, Fuel Tax” on page 15 in the Punch edition of 30/3/2010.
AFRICA’S leading airline, South African Airways (SAA) has appointed a Nigerian national, Ohis Ehimiaghe as the new Regional Manager: North, West and Central Africa.
THE Lagos State Government has reiterated its resolve to regulate the activities of motorcycle operators to ensure security, safety and protection of lives and property of Lagosians.
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said the demise of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu has created a huge vacuum that would be very difficult to fill.
Joseph Liberty Foundation will be commissioning its Ikoyi Prison Music School, Borehole and modern toilets constructed for use by the prison inmates.
Leader of Aguiyi Ironsi section of Ladipo Market, Mushin, Lagos State, Mr. Jonathan Okoli, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate Court for unlawful possession of firearms, threat to lives, assault on policemen, resisting police arrest and malicious damage.
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