Integrated Microfinance Bank Ibadan branch is organizing a Carnival Road Show on poverty alleviation in Oyo State. The event is scheduled for today Thursday 2nd of July, 2009. The float/carnival will go around ibadan metropolis starting from the Governor’s office and end up in his office.

By Emeka Aginam, Asst. Online Editor The Executive Director of  Nigeria Policy Institute, USA,  Jimmy Emmanuel Asiegbu has called on  both state and federal governments to pay priority  attention to the recent  rampant kidnapping and armed robbery incidents in the country, particularly in Southeast part of the country. Kidnapping and demand for  huge ransom of […]

The recent 98th conference of the ILO was historic in many aspects. It not only coincided with the 90th anniversary of the ILO, it adopted the Global Jobs Pact designed to overcome job losses that people all over the world have experienced. It was also the first time that the ILO had nine presidents or heads of government address the plenary session. Nigeria was a part of the events in a very positive way.

CHIEF David Attah was spokesman for the late maximum ruler, Gen Sani Abacha. He had before then been Group Personnel Manager of the Daily Times, General Manager of Standard, two-time commissioner in Benue State and Member, House of Representatives. In this interview, he argued that Nigerians cannot continue to blame Abacha for the nation’s woes, more than ten years after his death and warned that the nation is drifting. Excerpts:

It was gathered that the Hassan Lawal, who has served as minister for five years, including three years under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, as Labour minister, and two years in the present government, could not come up with any solution.

Owing to this scenario, youths of Uyo who for more than one year have witnessed several violent killings and blood baths, decided to rise against similar violent killings by coming together to demonstrate on major streets of Uyo, calling on government to help stop the killings and kidnapping in the city.

We also operate several scholarship programmes such as the Community Scholarship for our areas of operation, the National University Scholarship schemes, the Blind Students Scholarship for Medical, Nursing Laboratory Sciences and Engineering Students.

Test questions can be created in ‘banks’ and delivered at random, cutting out ‘battery’ testing, i.e. the need to test all candidates at the same time on the same day.

“Before Barack Obama in Politics , Oprah Winfrey in the Media, Tiger Woods in Sports, Michael was the first to break the color lines. While Muhammad Ali confronted the system, Michael was silent in his own struggle and in the end brought the world together.’’

By Tony Edike ENUGU—CHAIRMAN of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Maurice Iwu, yesterday, listed the threat and actual unleashing of violence as strategy to gain upper hands during elections, the inequality in gender participation in politics in Nigeria and the mindset of Nigerians about elections as the broad issues that have continued to bog […]

DELTA Airlines poor treatment of hundreds of its passengers heading to the US appears to be the standard practice for most foreign airlines that operate into Nigeria. The passengers were stranded at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos. The plane that was supposed to convey them developed a technical fault. A passenger’s telephone call to […]

The question is: would the church offer treatment or care in any form to the couple if the test comes out positive? or would the church ask for other STI’s other than HIV as a measure to protect the proposed bride from a wayward husband?

In an almost desperate bid to privatise all things privatisable and even those not privatisable, the Obasanjo administration’s advisers on privatisation and oil matters had come up with this very gullible theory of how selling licences for private refineries to be built will solve the twin problems of pricing and supply forever.

At the end of the debate, Group A scored a total of 435 points to emerge winner. Group B trailed behind with 423 points to come second.

THE National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and a private firm, Logine International Limited, have set up a joint committee to work out a frame-work that would lead to the establishment of Information and Communications centers across the country with the aim of generating employment through skills acquisition.