Despite losing 1-3 to defending champions Egypt in their opening game of the 27th Africa Cup of Nations, the Super Eagles still got $5,000 (about N740,000) for five shots on target, courtesy of Tom Tom, the Official Candy of the Nigerian national football teams.

By  Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Imo State Government has promised that it will, as a matter of urgency, provide drugs for the treatment of HIV positive inmates of Owerri Federal Prison with a view to ameliorating their sufferings. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Vin Udokwu, made the promise when he visited the Nigeria Prison Service, Owerri, at […]

Owerri—Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, the Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has been detained by the police for allegedly detaining Pascal Okorie. Mr Aloysius Okorie, the Commissioner of Police in Imo, told newsmen in Owerri that Uwazuruike was invited for interrogation for illegally keeping Pascal, a Nigerian-born U.S. citizen, […]

The Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) has called on Cross River State government to reconstitute the State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) in preparation for the November 2010 local government elections.

The effect of the global melt down on industry and labor was one of the issues raised at the education summit of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers Union of Nigeria (NUTG).

CHAIRMAN of the Military Pensions Board (MPB), Brigadier General Bitrus Kwaji, in this interview with Pension and You, speaks on issue of fake pensioners and other challenges facing MPB and steps taken by the board to address them.
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Action Congress (AC) in Bayelsa State yesterday hailed the organisers of the peaceful protest march in Abuja over the continued absence of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, saying such protesters should be awarded medals for showing the needed attributes of true democrats and patriots.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Daniel Emeribe Alhaji Nojeemdeen Adebayo Ibrahim, is the Lagos State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP). At a recent a celebration of the Pensioners’ Day, he spoke to Pension and You on the challenges facing pensioners and how banks are compounding their plight. Excerpts. How would you appraise the […]

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has commenced an assessment of the project needs of various communities in the Niger Delta with a view to ensuring that only projects and services that met the needs of the people were provided.

THE two unions in the nation’s banking sector, the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBFIE) and its Association of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) counterpart, have called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to direct the banks to stop casualisation of workers and other forms of unfair labour practices […]

The authorities of the Fountain University, Osogbo have given scholarship to 38 students of the institution for the 2008/2009 academic session.

The resumption date presented the school children the opportunity to reminiscence on their experiences during the four-week holiday. As recounted by the school children, many of them were unable to travel during the holiday due to fuel scarcity. In fact, the fuel crisis hampered movement within the Lagos metropolis so much so hat the number of children at the various amusement parks that dot the city of Lagos reduced drastically when compared with the figure recorded during the previous yelutide seasons.

The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Chief Achike Udenwa, has said that his administration has been battling pressing challenges in the industrial sector of the economy with a view “To transform Nigeria into a modern industrialised Nation and Reposition Commerce as the Hub of the Nation’s Economy”

Hundreds of school-going children as well as their counterparts who are out of school gathered last Saturday at Oto area of Lagos State for an awareness programme organised by the Community Art Development Initiative (CADI), a non-governmental organisation.

The Bachelor of Dental Surgery and Bachelor of Nursing Science programmes in the Lagos State University College of Medicine, Ikeja will soon take off as the Resource Assessment Visitation of the National Universities Commission (NUC) has visited the College.