ECWA protests attack on church
The Board of Elders of ECWA Goodnews Church, Jos has condemned the recent attack on the church by hoodlums under the guise of protesting the ban on the operation of commercial motorcyclists in Jos-Bukuru metropolis, calling on the Plateau State government to compensate victims of the violence.
Spain 2 – 0 Honduras
Spain, Monday defeated Honduras in a Group H game at Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg.
Dangote, host community partner on new plant set up
Dangote Industries Limited has commended the leaders and members of Ibese community in Ogun State, for their support and co-operation in ensuring that work on the new cement plant being built by the company in the community remains on course for completion in record time.
2011: Group urge Jonathan to run
NIGER DELTA Common Cause, NDCC, a political pressure group, has charged President Goodluck Jonathan to shun pressure from people calling on him to run for election in 2011 in the interest of the unity, peace and good governance of the country.
Amnesty: IOCs limits involvement to training
INTERNATIONAL Oil Companies, IOCs, operating in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector say they will only be involved in vocational training and capacity building for youths in the Niger Delta for the industry and beyond in support of Federal Government’s Amnesty Programme.
Scrap PEF, NACCIMA tells FG
FOLLOWING the huge sums spent on the bridging of petroleum products through the Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF), the Nigerian Association of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has urged the federal government to scrape the PEF as the chamber is bothered by the horrendous cost of operating the system.
Jonathan has not deviated from Yar’adua’s programme
Former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa had a parley with newsmen at his Makurdi residence recently to mark his 48 birth day . In this interview he spoke on remours of his intention to run for the position of Governor of Benue State in 2011 elections and other topical issues. Excerpts:
Utomi makes case for Sovereign Fund
Professor Pat Utomi, Chairman of the Social Democratic Mega Party has opined that only $30 of the value of oil sold should go into the Federal Allocation Account, FAAC.
President Jonathan versus Justice Uwais
When jurists of the calibre and status of a former Chief Justice of Nigeria , like Justice Mohammadu Uwais , also a former Chairman of the Electoral Reform Committee , took time off the jurisprudential sphere and tried to move into the murky waters of politics in Nigeria , one knew he was bathing in troubled waters.
Give citizens in diaspora the right to vote – ARP
Ahead of 2011 election, the African Renaissance Party (ARP) has said the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC, must ensure that Nigerians living abroad register and vote in the elections, even as the party insisted that lack of funds is not enough reason to deny citizen in diaspora their fundamental rights
FG, CDC renew war against TB, HIV …with state-of-the-art reference lab in Zaria
TOWARDS changing the profile of Nigeria as the country with the 4th largest burden of tuberculosis in the world, and at the same time checkmate the national menace of HIV & AIDS epidemic, a collaborative venture involving the National Tuberculosis & Leprosy Control Programme, the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN) and the United States-based Centres for Diseases Control (CDC) has established a first rate TB/HIV & AIDS reference laboratory in Zaria, Kaduna State.
