Authorities of the University of Ado Ekiti (UNAD) has announced a 400 percent hike in school fees for the new students, which the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof Dipo Kolawole said the increment is the only option left for the university to survive.

IN the beginning, not many believed that the Eagles would cross the first hurdle of the FIFA U-17 World Cup which ended in flying colours at the magnificent Abuja national stadium. At the middle of the competition, the Eaglets converted so many to place their hopes on them as they improved from match to match.

A message of congratulations has been sent to the Super Eagles striker, Mr. Osaze Odemwingie, from his kinsmen in Uhronigbe in Orhiomwon Local Government Area of Edo State over his emergence as Nigeria’s Footballer of the Year in the Africa Independent Television (AIT) organised awards.

THE call by some Nigerians on the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to sack Coach Shaibu Amodu as the Chief Coach of the Super Eagles has drawn the ire of his kinsman, Chief Peter Aronokhale, who described the call as unjust and uncalled for after the coach qualified the team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

ACTIVIST and former President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Dipo Fashina, yesterday in Lagos, declared that the ruling class had no capacity to rescue the Nigeria from poverty.

The World travel Market has become a vibrant must attend business to business travel and tourism event in the last thirty years in London.

Shock, disbelief and confusion Thursday trailed IRS Lagos-bound flight 3300 from Abuja, as passengers engaged the cabin crew in a war of words over stale snacks served on board.

Governments at all levels have been called upon to make more resources available for the maintenance and development of education in the country.

WITH the attendant difficulty experienced in the global economy, the Imo State Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim has advocated for the expansion of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR ) sources other than taxation, adding that taxation is central to infrastructural development, recalling that in the colonial days specific companies were established to pursue investments for the regions.

Champion Breweries Plc has disclosed that it has increased its presence in key states in the South-South, especially in Akwa Ibom and five other neighbouring states.

Nestle Nigeria Plc has introduced its new powdered food seasoning, Maggi Mix’py to consumers in Enugu, Onitsha, Jos as a way of meeting up with the demands of its customers across the country.

THE legal action instituted against Bayer CropScience AG by farmers in the United States for allegedly contaminating their farms with Genetically Modified (GM) rice seeds in 2006 is a further confirmation of the validity of tests carried out on rice samples collected by the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) in Nigeria and other West African countries within the same period which showed contamination.

Champion Breweries Plc has disclosed that it has increased its presence in key states in the South-South, especially in Akwa Ibom and five other neighbouring states.

By   Abdulwahab   Abdulah Chief Robert Clarke (SAN), is our guest for the week. In this interview, he spoke on some national issues, including the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal on the suit by Chief Chris Uba, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the April 2007, election, who had prayed the […]

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has called on States internal revenue services to conduct a thorough investigation on their governors with the aim of locating other sources of their income so that they can be taxed accordingly.