By Umar Yusuf YOLA -  Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State said the defeat of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in two House of Assembly re-run elections recently by its archrival, the  AC, was an indication that the state government does not interfere with the conduct of elections in whatever way. He observed that […]

Yenagoa – An unknown militant leader operating on Nun River in Akassa kingdom yesterday surrendered 15 arms and 308 mixed ammunition to the state chapter of the Presidential Amnesty Implementation Committee. However, most of the repentant militants who were accommodated at the Imiringi rehabilitation centre, which is also the Federal Government Girls College, have deserted […]

By Kingsley Omonobi The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP weekend, threatened to mobilise Nigerians to protest the continued stay of Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Michael Aondoakaa if President Umar Musa Yar’Adua fails to sack him over his blockage of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC from doing […]

The International Air Transport Association’s Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) is soon to become a requirement for airline registration in the country, and is expected to serve as a vehicle to checkmating airline indebtedness to aviation service providing agencies.

BARELY four months to the end of the year, Nigeria which has witnessed highly epileptic power supply for more than four decades, is gradually catching up with her target of generating 6000 Megawatts of electricity by December 2009. Owing to the importance of electricity to socio-economic development of the people, successive administrations in the country have focused on improving the country’s power situation by putting epileptic power supply to a permanent halt.

As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark this year’s World Oral Day, observers have rated oral health in the country poorly. Lagos State House Committee Chairman on Health, Hon. Samuel Adejare who gave hard knocks to oral healthcare in Nigeria said the culture of dental care in Nigeria is appalling and chided Nigerians for not exhibiting good oral hygiene.

A s part of efforts to ensure the full utilisation of the potentials of radiology services for better turn over in the nation’s health sector, there is need for the industry to transit from film to digital radiography. Intensive training of new radiologists has also been deemed necessary as a way of bridging the manpower shortage in the industry.

SOUTH African Airways (SAA) has appointed Ms. Thobekile Duma as the new Country Manager, Nigeria. Not to be mistaken as a move to further position the airline as a gender friendly organization, this appointment is a result of an extensive search internally and externally to find the best person for the job.

Participants at the just-concluded 15th Aviation and Allied Business Leadership Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have canvassed full integration of air transport in Africa, if African carriers were to be able to compete favourably with their foreign counterparts. Rising from the parley, the participants unanimously agreed that if there was anytime African governments needed to implement the Yamoussoukro Decision, which was designed to integrate air transport on the continent, it was now, especially considering the current global economic meltdown which had taken its toll on airlines in Africa.

Nigerians have been urged to rededicate themselves to personal and communal hygiene as the popular slogan, ‘health is wealth’ is not just theoretical but real even as MTN Foundation kicked- off MTN Foundation Partners against Malaria & AIDS (MTNF-PAMAC) in Lagos.

By Umar Yusuf Yola – The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Yola, Professor Usman Bashir, has tasked elder statesmen and stakeholders in the education sector in the country, to urgently intervene in the current face-off between the Federal Government and university-based unions, to avert a total collapse of the university system in […]

* To spend one year behind bars, licence suspended MALAGA, SPAIN — THE Spanish surgeon who carried out a tummy tuck operation on Mrs Stella Obasanjo, wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in 2005, was yesterday sentenced to one year imprisonment for manslaughter by a court in Malaga, Spain. The court also suspended for three […]

THE Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr. Michael Kaasa Aondoakaa SAN, has identified agriculture as the panacea for the current global financial crisis advising that governments at all levels vigorously resuscitate that sector in view of its immense potentials.

Johannesburg – The Igbo community in South Africa at the weekend expressed concern over the killing of their kinsman in “questionable circumstances’’. The Eze Ndi Igbo in South Africa, Martin Emechiebe, said the trend was frightening, calling for more vigilance and unity not just among the Igbos, but all Nigerians in South Africa. Emechiebe spoke […]

By Emma Nnadozie, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Evelyn Usman & Bose Adebayo LAGOS — INSPECTOR-GENERAL of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, has set up a team of police detectives headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police to unravel the circumstances surrounding the killing of the Guardian Newspapers Assistant News Editor, Bayo Ohu, in his apartment in Egbeda, a suburb […]