A pen to help children with learning disorders has been discovered. It was among the learning tools and methods which received the attention of education stakeholders at the just-concluded World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), hosted by Qatar Foundation.

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Mr Dan Mou is the Secretary of the National Poverty Eradication Programme. He speaks with Victoria OJEME on developments in the new NAPEP.

The Landlord port model adopted for port concessioning in Nigeria took a centre stage at the just concluded 8th Pan African Port Cooperation (PAPC) Conference in Arusha, Tanzania, as hundreds of the delegates extolled the hard-wearing efforts of the management of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).

Secretary General of the Indigenous Ship-owners Association of Nigeria (ISAN), Capt. Dada Labinjo has expressed concern over federal government’s lack of interest in the fortunes of the maritime operators.

THE DISCORD between terminal operators, otherwise known as concessionaires freight forwarders have been blamed on breakdowm in communication. Disclosing this in Lagos, Chairman of the Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN), Princess (Dr.) Vicky Haastrup, pledged to work with the freight forwarders, whom she described as a highly professional set of people and important stakeholders, in achieving high productivity at the ports.

The European Central Bank failed to attract the 73.5 billion euros from banks on Tuesday needed to offset its seven-month run of euro zone government bond purchases, instead managing to draw just over 60 billion.

New sales data confirm that United States of America (U.S). retailers are poised to show their best holiday season in three years, but investors seemed unimpressed as concerns mount that shoppers will pull back in the new year.

Nestle Nigeria Plc, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc and eight other companies have released their score cards to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in compliance with the post listing requirement of the Exchange.

Budget shortfalls may hurt the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) even as it desperately needs funds to bolster equity markets and adopt new rules required by the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul signed into law this year, its chairman, Mary Schapiro said on Tuesday.

The bilateral agreements between Nigeria and Serbia have not been implemented since it was concluded in 2002. The Serbia Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Rifat Rondic, disclosed this during a meeting with Nigeria’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye.

Thousands of residents of Yenagoa who thronged the campaign rally of Beimo Rufus-Spiff, a governorship aspirant under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday narrowly escaped death when two deafening explosions rocked the venue of the rally at Opolo Community Secondary School ground.

OUTRAGED by the claim of a terrorist group that claimed responsiblity for the Jos mayhem, the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, the Council of Ulama in Jos, the Ja’amatu Nasril Islam, JNI, and other Islamic groups in the country, yesterday, dismissed the group’s claim insisting that it was not only faceless but lacked any iota of credibility.

IJAW Youths Welfare Association, IYWA, has alerted the United Nations that over 20,000 residents of 11 communities in Burutu and Bomadi Local Government Areas of Delta State have been under siege by soldiers, deployed by the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, to their homelands for upwards one month in the search for wanted militant leader, “General” John Togo.

LAGOS—THE group that claimed responsibility for the Jos mayhem which claimed over 80 lives fueled its claim, yesterday, by posting a video clip on the internet showing its spokesman justifying why they struck in Jos. Online publication, Saharareporters on its site showed the video of the group’s spokesman reading from an Arabic text which was […]