10 communities get micro enterprises equipment
TEN communities in Anambra State have been presented with Micro Enterprises Equipment by Governor Peter Obi as part of the government’s poverty alleviation programme.
Gunmen attack Bayelsa PDP Chairman’s home
The crisis rocking the Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a new twist weekend as the country home of the chairman, Chief Rufus Abadi, at Otuan community in the Southern Ijaw local government area of the state was attacked by unknown gunmen.
Only 3 banks sick last December – NDIC
NIGERIA Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, has said that as at the end of 2008, the Financial condition of banks in the country were generally satisfactory.
Editors reject Press Council Bill
EDITORS of various media organisations across the country, who are presently in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory have called for the withdrawal of the new Press Council Bill, expected to be tabled for debate on the floor of the House of Representatives today.
1 dead, monarch’s house torched over transformer vandalisation
At least one person has been shot dead and the palace of the Odion’Ologbo of Oleh in Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, HRH Ovrawa Omogha I, razed, following the alleged involvement of one of the sons of the monarch in the vandalization of one the old transformers in Emiye Road in the kingdom.
We ‘ve achieved 90% budget implementation – Aliero
MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero disclosed weekend that the administration has achieved 90% of the implementation of both the national and statutory budget of the FCT.
Rivers govt orders residents to vacate area for safety
Persons living within two hundred meters radius of the Oyigbo North Non- Associated Gas (NAG) plant have been ordered to relocate from the place on health grounds.
Our political system disorderly, says Sen. Akaagerger
Senator Joseph Akaagerger, a holder of doctorate degree in law easily combines his cerebral prowess with a devotion to the celestial.
‘WETIN’ CONCERN NLC/TUC WITH FOREX MARKET?
Our Government and Organised Labour are once again for the umpteenth time in about five years embroiled in what may best be described as an unending petrol price control war, which was ignited over two decades ago with the drastic devaluation of the naira and increasing product prices.
Ogbulafor’s quit notice
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is reportedly disappointed with Ogbulafor’s mishandling of the primaries. Yar’Adua can do more than being angry.
Abia Assembly uncovers ghost workers’ cartel in LGs
ABIA State House of Assembly says it has uncovered a ghost workers’ cartel in the council areas of the state, which it said has caused “endermic problem†in the local government system in the state.
