By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—A prominent Umuahia, Abia state based businessman, Mr. Ugochukwu Ikpo has been arrested by a team of policemen from Abuja for his alleged involvement in criminal activities, including armed robbery and kidnapping. Ikpo’s arrest followed a petition by the traditional ruler of Umudiawa Kingdom, a neihgbouring  community and Chief Smart Ejenonu, a […]

Stakeholders in Nigeria will come together on August 11, 2009 in Lagos for a one-day public forum to deliberate on the health concerns arising from mobile phones and base stations.

Dr. Ojo, who fielded questions from journalists at his country home, Umutu, stated that as a part of his electioneering campaign promises, he was presently on tour of public schools in the area and distributing note books and other educational aids to pupils and students, while 20 indigent students have been awarded scholarships.

The petition argued that “by virtue of the provisions of section 2 of the NDDC Act, a person to be nominated must be a person with proven integrity and credibility and with the greatest respect, the said nominee is not qualified as a person of proven integrity”.

The Ministry of Science & echnology has announced that this year’s National ICT Congress will be held at the Centro Internacional de Conferencia Joaquim Chissano over 17-18 September, with the theme “Optimising network management & developing content for the fibre era”.

Many Nigerians do not believe that the amnesty offer of the Federal Government to the Niger Delta militants will stop the unrest in that region, the NOI/Gallup poll has revealed.

A preliminary research conducted by World Wide Worx for its 2009 annual Mobility study, with the support of First National Bank (FNB), leaders in cellphone banking in Africa, and Research In Motion (RIM), developers of the BlackBerry solution, has discovered that the South African cellular market which reached a milestone of 50-million connections at the end of 2008 had only 68% as individual users.

State Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) chairman, Rt. Reverend Peter Imasuen, who spoke of the association’s position, insisted in a statement that “no day passes without innocent citizens being kidnapped, robbed, brutalized and harassed by undesirable elements.

HEAVY flooding has devastated many parts of Asaba thereby rendering some of the roads and streets unmotorable, while some residents have lost valuables to the flood.

THE Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, has alleged that the tools applied by international rating agencies to rank exchanges were to the disadvantage of the local stock exchange.