IT was like another of the many conventions of the Nigerian peoples resident in the USA. The Hilton Hotel Rivers Town Meeting at Henden, a few miles from the International Dulles airport, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, carried the familiar badges.

Following its emergence as one of the higher institutions in Nigeria benefitting from the Federal Government’s Special Intervention Funds the management of the 100-year-old Federal School of Surveying, Oyo has pledged to take the delivery of digital surveying education to higher level.

IN an article entitled Egypt asks British Museum for the Rosetta Stone after Louvre victory, the British Daily Telegraph reports that soon after the Louvre has agreed to return the stolen frescoes, Zahi Hawass, the dynamic Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has asked the British Museum for a loan of the Rosetta Stone.

The Management Committee of Abuja Carnival 2009 is set to produce a carnival that will be a reference point in years to come from the 21st-24th November, 2009. This much can be gleamed from the array of plans that have been laid out for the 5th edition of the Carnival.

The old system of giving Permanent Secretaries and Directors in the Federal Civil Service unlimited tenure appeared to take the term: “Permanent Secretary” literally. It gave rise to so many abuses that the federal civil service became the engine room of corruption, ethnic domination, sectional cabalism and the nurturing of super-powerful public officers who were […]

IT was Jon Huntsman, American billionaire businessman and entrepreneur who in his humbler days worked as special assistant to the president during the first term of the Nixon administration that wrote in his bestselling book, Winners Never Cheat: “There are no moral shortcuts in the game of life.

The Co-ordinator, Child’s Rights Advancement Protection Initiative, Barrister Ozioma Onyenweaku has said that only education is capable of addressing the increasing incidence of child abuse and violence against children in Nigeria.
Barrister Onyenweaku made the assertion during a workshop organized by Child’s Rights Advancement Protection at Apata Memorial Schools, Isolo, Lagos.

Bayelsa State House of Assembly has ordered the immediate removal of a member of the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC), Mr. Banabas Tugwell Edure, over alleged non-eligibility to serve in the State’s Indepen-dent Electoral Commission (SIEC).

FORMER Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, Governor of Gombe State, Alhaji Danjuma Goje, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Adamu Aliero, are among notable Nigerians that would be conferred with fellowship awards in the forthcoming 17th convoca-tion of the Federal Polytech-nic, Auchi.

A thirteen-man Working Committe on Delta State government and NNPC Gas Master Plan has been inaugurated in Asaba.

AT a recent public ceremony in Ngwa land, the Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji, declared his readiness to offer amnesty to repentant kidnappers.

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River has assented to the amendment of the State Appropriation Bill of 2009 following the ceding of 176 oil wells from Cross River to neighbouring Akwa Ibom.

Thousands of students who are indigenes of Lagos, Ondo, Rivers, Delta and Bayelsa States studying Medical and Engineering courses in various tertiary institutions are currently smiling to banks, courtesy of the N118 million scholarship funds made available by Agbami partners, a group of oil companies.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said his administration is not going to increase taxes despite the global economic meltdown.

Confucious Institute has been established at the University of Lagos which will provide Chinese language teaching at various levels, teaching Chinese language instructors and providing Chinese language teaching resources.