LG rescues 5 prison inmates
By  Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Reprieve came the way of five prisoners in Owerri Federal Prisons, who have no money to pay the fines slammed on them five years ago, courtesy of Owerri Municipal Council. The Transition Committee Chairman of Owerri Municipal Council, Mr. Macdonald Ebere, disclosed while giving account of his 15 months stewardship at the […]
FG adopts new tax policy
ABUJA—The Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday adopted the Draft National Tax Policy for implementation with effect from 1 January 2010. The Minister of State for Information and Communications, Alhaji Aliyu Bilbis, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the Federal Executive Council meeting yesterday. Vice President Goodluck Jonathan presided over the meeting. Bilbis […]
Nigerian Politics: Where Are The Young People?
Africans and Nigerians all over the world watched proudly as Barack Obama took over the mantle of leadership as the president of the United States .
Edo PDP absolves self of JTF withdrawal
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has absolved itself of the decision by Defence Minister, General Godwin Abbe, to withdraw soldiers serving in the Joint Task Force (JTF) set up by the state government to fight kidnapping and other violent crimes in the state.
NUC scores BellsTech high in accreditation exercise – Vice Chancellor
The results of the accreditation exercise conducted by the National Universities Commission (NUC), has placed Bells University of Technology, Ota on a high pedestal among public and private universities in the country, with the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Isaac Adeyemi describing the success of the university in the NUC’s assessment exercise as one of the giant strides made by the institution.
Yar’Adua: Nigerians suffer unduly, Say Anyim, Mantu, 39 others
A DELEGATION of 41 eminent Nigerians led by a former President of the Senate, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim and his Deputy, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, yesterday, called on President Umaru Yar‘Adua to urgently transmit a letter of his incapacitation to the National Assembly to salvage the nation’s democracy from danger.
