By Ifeanyi  Okolie Six persons, who allegedly vandalized Nitel Cables valued at about N3 million were on Wednesday paraded before newsmen in Ikeja by he Lagos State police command.   Mr Frank Mba, the command spokesman who paraded the suspects, said they were arrested on Nov. 1, at about 2 a.m. at Odulami Street, Lagos Island. […]

“The GCU Vision 2015 is to be the centre of educational excellence of first choice in Nigeria committed to providing total education of exceptional quality to all pupils to achieve the highest standards in learning and character as the light house of excellence in other secondary schools in Nigeria while being comparable to the best international schools.”

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has praised the efforts and determination of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) at reducing poverty in the state.

By Chioma Obinna NIGERIA health professionals have called for equity in the healthcare planning of the country, saying unless the country applies equity in its health planning, Nigeria will be far from attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The health professionals who gathered at the 2009 annual scientific conference and general meeting of […]

THE Chief Executive Officer of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Benin Distribution zone, Mr. George Chiatula, has raised an alarm over the increasing number of deaths recorded through electrocution as a result of acts of vandalization of PHCN equipment.

There are indications that immediate past President of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Comrade Peter Akpatason, will seek to represent Edo North in the Senate come 2011.

She lamented that the House, after inspection of projects contained in this year’s budget, discovered that less than 50% of the budget was implemented, even when the year has almost ended.

By Patience Ogbodo BAUCHI —  Chairman of the Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis/Leprosy and Malaria (BACATMA), Rilwanu Muhammad, has said of about three million people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, 60 per cent are women just as majority of them live in the rural areas thereby making it very difficult for […]

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—All the federal  roads that cut across different parts of Ebonyi State have become impassable and are now death traps to motorists and commuters that ply them. Only yesterday, a commercial lorry carrying sand collided with a Nissan saloon car at the Nkalagu area on the Abakaliki-Enugu highway with two feared dead, […]

Lagos—The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Afribank Nigeria Plc, Mr. Nebolisa Arah said yesterday that the bank was not planning any retrenchment of staff or contemplating any salary cut of its staff. He stated this at the Corporate Office of Vanguard when he paid a courtesy visit to the Editor Mr. Mideno Bayagbon. Unlike what […]