By  Anayo Okoli Umuahia—Abia State Deputy Governor, Mr  Chris Akomas has described Microfinance  Banks  as  veritable tool for the empowerment of the rural masses to change their lives for the better. Akomas who spoke when the Abia State Chapter of Association of Microfinance Institutions (AMFI/Abia) paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Umuahia, commended […]

By Patience Ogbodo BAUCHI — THE President of  Bauchi State chapter of All Nigerian Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Comrade Abdullahi Ibrahim Hamza, has cautioned students in all secondary schools in the state against exam malpractice, just as he advised them to be committed in their academic activities. Hamza who is also the […]

AMUKPE community in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State was thrown into confusion, weekend, follo-wing the death of a middle-aged man in a hotel room in the area.

The National Executive of Project Uduaghan International (PUI) will be inaugurated today, Novem-ber 24.
A statement by the chairman planning commit-tee, Mr. Steve Moeteke and Public Relations Officer, Mr Dotie Augustine, said the ceremony will take place at the squash court, Govern-ment House, Asaba.

The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), has condemned the strange Press Council Bill now circulating at the National Assembly which seeks to impose government control on the Nigerian press.

By Emeka Mamah KADUNA — Vice President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said Nigerians will not depend on generators for their electricity supply by this time next year. Jonathan spoke at the commissioning ceremony of the production lines of the new Peugeot 307 Sedan cars at the premises of the Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited (PAN) in Kaduna. […]

Loyalists of the immediate past governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, were apprehensive yesterday as the much- expected ruling by the Federal High Court, Asaba, on the application filed by Ibori seeking to strike out the 170-count charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) did not hold.

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Nigeria Police yesterday arraigned the 2007 gubernatorial candidate of the opposition Action Congress (AC), Engineer Rauf Aregbesola and a lawyer, Mr Olayinka Okedara before an Abuja high court sitting on a six count charge of conspiracy and forgery. The arraignment followed an earlier order procured from the court to prosecute the […]

By Enyim Enyim ONITSHA—The Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the 2007 governorship election in Anambra State, Dr Andy Uba, who recently lost his case at the Court of Appeal, Enugu , where he had sought to be declared Governor-in- waiting to take over from Governor Peter Obi on March 17, 2010, has said that the […]

By Emmanuel Aziken ABUJA—Erstwhile chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Olabode George was yesterday listed among other notable Nigerians who got Federal Government houses at the expense of deserving civil servants. Others listed by the Senate Committee on Housing and Urban Development at the public hearing were former Minister of Foreign Affairs and […]