Geology dept of ABU gets N50 equipment
A number of equipment such as 30 KVA generating set, inverters, a Toyota Hiace minibus, digital cameras, field equipment among other facilities, valued at N50 million, which were recently donated to the Geology Department of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria by Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, have been commissioned.
The assistance was made under the company’s Universities Partnering Programme.
2011: Igbo congress fails to endorse candidates, resolves to tackle kidnapping
The World Igbo Congress, WIC, has risen from its summit in New Jersey, U.S.A, with a resolution not to endorse any presidential candidate for the 2011 elections until the preponderance of Igbo agree on the modalities for such endorsement.
50 Oko Poly students renounce cultism
NO fewer than 50 students of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, belonging to five notorious cult groups in the institution, yesterday denounced their membership and destroyed the instruments with which the groups were identified .
Security operatives arrest 14 MASSOB members in Ebonyi
No fewer than 14 loyalists of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, including the organization’s National Director of Information, Comrade Uchenna Madu, have been arrested by a combined team of police and soldiers in Ebonyi State.
Sekibo challenges Amaechi to public debate
FORMER Minister of Transport, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, has criticised the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi for what he described as his (Amaechi’s) attempt to deceive Nigerians and Rivers people in particular at the recent state’s Summit on Information and Communication.
Electric cable explosion kills one, injures others
Explosion from an under- ground cable, yesterday, rocked the entire Jakande Estate in Oke-Afa, Isolo area of Lagos, killing a motorcyclist and injuring others.
