Indomie empowers physically challenged persons
As part of its corporate social responsibility initiative and its commitment to community empowerment especially the physically challenged and the less privileged, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Nigeria’s No.1 Noodle brand, Indomie instant noodles has empowered some physically challenged persons, providing them with Indomie Mobile Carts otherwise known as’ Indomie Buka’ to start up small businesses.
EFCC to disqualify 54 PDP aspirants
IN its determination to stop corrupt politicians from participating in the 2011 general elections, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, identified 54 corrupt aspirants on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP.
2011: Power play as PDP aspirants battle for Aso Rock
FOLLOWING the release of electoral guidelines for primary elections by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after its 53rd National Executive Committee, NEC meeting held on Wednesday, 15th September, 2010 at the National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, political tempo was immediately charged as the place literarily became a Mecca of sort.
2011: Campaigns, rallies, security
NOBODY expected the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Tambari Yabo Mohammed would have stopped a political rally without reasons, good reasons.
Prospects for the United States of Nigeria in the next fifty years
HAPPILY, Nigerians at home and abroad did celebrate the 50 years of political independence from Britain without any vestige of bitterness against our colonial masters.
Body of Benchers admits 648 new lawyers to bar
The Body of Benchers, yesterday, admitted 648 new lawyers to the legal profession.
The body, however, used the opportunity of the call to bar ceremony to advise the new wigs to uphold the rule of law, promote the cause of justice and shun all corrupt practices capable of tarnishing the image of the profession.
Spectacular ceremony draws curtain on C’wealth Games
A dazzling laser show and a musical extravaganza Thursday night marked the grand finale of the Commonwealth Games, the biggest sporting event hosted by India which crowned itself with sporting glory by winning an unprecedented 101 medals.
Miracle men
BY the time you read this column, all of the 33 men who were trapped in the San Jose copper and gold mine (near Copiapo in Chile’s Atacama Desert) should have been freed from a terrible and terrifying ordeal that has dragged on for over two months and attracted global attention (no less than 1500 journalists – from several different countries – showed up to personally witness their liberation).
India With Surprises
THE Commonwealth Games have been the Games for us. There were some surprises about the performance of Team Nigeria . With the minimal preparations, Nigeria was on the way to her best Commonwealth Games since her first appearance in 1950.
Nigeria risks entering a tertiary phase of terror – Expert
The politicisation of the issue should not arise at this time. We .should be thinking of getting out of the situation, and the only way to get out of the situation is to collaborate. When we put up communal or collective efforts, then we will able to achieve something better. It is a case that threatens us. It is an absurd issue that is confronting us and there are better ways we can go about it
Consensus candidate: Ciroma’s 17 ‘wise men’s’ meeting deadlocked
THE meeting of former Minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma’s Committee of 17 ‘wise men’ put together to get one consensus candidate from the four presidential aspirants from the North on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was deadlock, yesterday, as they could not settle on a candidate.
