Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said that the Cross River State government paid back the first and second loans it took towards the building of the Tinapa Leisure Resort in Calabar.

Does this celebration of tenure of civilian rule not represent in fact the substitution of wishfulness for constitutional rule for deliberate and pro-active mobilization of the people for democracy? The question of the prospects of democratic constitutionalist government and governance in Nigeria are immediately determined by the contestation between military-rule political parties and civilian rule electoral parties within the context of the postcolonial transition.

I was 27 years old when I first had sex, and believe me, it was due to pressure from the lady I was dating. Sex to me is not worth all the noise and trouble that comes with it. It is not as if I do not get sexually aroused or that I am impotent.

THE persistent rot in Nigeria’s education sector is nowhere about to end. If anything, the country’s education is set for more bashing as the National Union of Teachers, the umbrella body of primary and secondary school teachers in the country, gave notice of a strike that began last week.

…demands apology ABUJA— The Federal Government  yesterday asked the Sony Corporation to withdraw with immediate effect and tender an unreserved apology for posting an advertisement on the internet portraying Nigeria as a home of fraud where its citizens hardly do genuine business. The advert in question is currently circulating on youtube.com, facebook.com and other international […]

THE Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), will tomorrow, in conjunction with the Lagos State Judiciary organise a valedictory court session for its former National Publicity Secretary, the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), at the Lagos High Court, Igbosere.

DESPITE his earlier disapproval of the unconstitutional process that led to the emergence of the new leadership in the country, President Umaru Yar’Adua will today leave for the inauguration of the elected president of Guinea Bissua, Bacah Sanha.

By Chris Ochayi ABUJA – The National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NMEC) disclosed yesterday that a total of 46,340,000 Nigerians are illiterates. Acting Executive Secretary of NMEC, Alhaji Jibrin Paiko, who stated this in Abuja at a press briefing to mark today’s International Literacy Day celebration, said, the figure represented the […]

The demise of re-nowned lawyer and frontline human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi to lung cancer over the weekend, once again brings into sharp focus the growing burden of cancer in Nigeria on one hand, and the challenges of control and management options available on the other.

…safety standards last reviewed 1988 By Emeka Mamah Kaduna – About 65 Nigerians were electrocuted between 2007 and 2008, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said. It also said that it would soon embark on the clearance of structures erected on electricity transmission and distribution networks by some Nigerians. NERC’s administrator, Imamudeen Talba disclosed […]

There has been a lull in inter-bank money market activities as banks have shunned themselves due to uncertainty over the outcome of the on-going fresh audit of the banks ordered by Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
Investigations by Vanguard showed that though, there is sufficient liquidity in the market, it is not spread evenly among the banks.

By Enyim Enyim ONITSHA – A group of lawmakers from the Anambra State House of Assembly, under the aegis of  Igwebuike forum led by Chief Ebere Ezechukwu, yesterday called on the state and national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to give automatic ticket to former Governor of the state, Dr Andy Uba, if the […]

It reports that workers of SPDC were barred from entering the flow station and Gas compressor station to carry out any activity.

As you read this article, nine Nigerians are recuperating from a life- saving heart surgery at the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, at the Blue Nile area of Khartoum, Sudan courtesy Kanu Heart Foundation (KHF) and a non governmental Organization, NGO – Emergency Italy – world wide.

Ekaette Udoh, a mother of two would be alive today if only she had obtained ante natal care during pregnancy. But she never did because she lacked the finances. She did not bother about registering in any hospital until the day she fell into labour.