Preparations for the August 28 local government elections in Cross River State have produced three casualties in Calabar South Local Government Area.

By Obiora Obeagu The case of Emodi V. Igbeke is no doubt one of the most controversial election petition cases in recent times. The crux of the matter is that the Appeal Court Enugu delivered two judgments on the same election that separately returned Senator Joy Emodi and Hon. Alphonsus Igbeke, as Senators representing Anambra […]

It is a season of agitation for pay raise. Good enough the deal on national minimum wage has been struck. The three social partners have agreed on N18,000 per month though it still has to undergo the due legislative and executive process before implementation .

WITH 27 days to the kick off of the first World Cup in African soil, there are palpable fears over the performance of the Eagles in Mandela’s country.

The Nigeria Labour Congress has paid tribute late president, Umar Musa Yar’Adua describing him as a leader who consulted widely and did not increase the economic burden of the people through increase in the prices of petroleum products.

TREE crop farmers numbering over 1,255 stormed the Oyo State Government Secretariat to register their grievances over non payment of the N 74 million compensation for their farm lands acquired by the state government five years ago.

Premium Sports Management Services (PSMS) in partnership with the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) and Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) is putting together an $8m dollar Naija fan village in Durban during the forthcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup being hosted by South Africa.

The Director General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe has charged banks in the country to take interest in the development of Tourism by investing in the sector.

As the Africa Travel Association’s (ATA) 35th Annual World Congress holds in Gambia next week, stakeholders across the tourism spectrum in the West African country are gearing up for ATA’s hallmark event.

The opportunities for Travel & Tourism in Nigeria are extraordinary. So, the call by the Minister for Culture & Tourism, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Mohammed, on the private sector to work with the government to develop plans for sustainable and profitable growth in the sector is commendable.

A COLLABORATION which will ensure that the Nigerian entertainment industry is taken to the international market kicked of in Lagos last Tuesday, Kano last Thursday and Monday this week in Enugu, with the World Bank pledging a whopping $20 million to the project.

Ososa is not one of the largest towns in Ogun State, nay Nigeria. But it has for long been registered in the consciousness of many people within and outside Nigeria. A legend transported it onto the lips of millions of people. That was the great dramatist, Hubert Ogunde, who ruled the stage for decades before he passed on in 1990.

THE government of Kwara has concluded arrangements to establish a cashew plantation and processing industry at Oke-Ola, in Irepodun Local Government Area.

THE Sokoto State Executive Council has approved the purchase of 14,000 tonnes of assorted fertilisers worth N1.8 billion for the 2010 farming season.

Livestock traders in various markets in Adamawa have complained of “multiple taxation’’, saying the development is responsible for the high cost of animals.