Professor Tess Onwueme is one of Africa’s foremost female playwrights and a Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, USA. The playwright, who has not only published severally, but is so globally studied was recently honoured with a new appointment as her university’s Professor of Global Letters.

In this abridged discourse shared at the Emporium, JBS Estate, Benin City on the occasion of the Seminar of the Eckankar Edo Area, Tony E.Afejuku , Professor of English at the University of Benin tries to prove some of the humanistic potentials of religion as a critical ingredient to fostering national harmony and unity.

TO ease complaints on kerosene scarcity, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, through its subsidiary, the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, said it has pumped about 37 million litres of the product into the market. The national demand for kerosene is 10 million litres per day.

THE Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Musa Mohammed Sada, has reassured genuine investors that the Federal Government would give them all the necessary assistance to conduct their businesses without hindrance.

Elsewedy Electric, a leading manufacturer of electrical products in Nigeria, has said it is prepared to contribute its quota to battle the epileptic power supply situation in the country, while also creating more job opportunities for Nigerians.

Worried by the drop in the study of geo_sciences in Nigeria’s institutions of higher learning, the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists, NAPE, is providing a platform for assessing ways to not only to arrest the decline, but also enhance graduate performance in the field.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan yesterday made history when he ordered that henceforth, females interested in becoming combatant officers for the Nigerian armed forces should be admitted into the Nigeria Defence Academy.

The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, has rapped the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC’s method of paying itself subsidy for the importation of petroleum products, before it remits monies from the sale of domestic crude oil to the Federation Account.

About 200 of the 610 housing units constructed in Akpabuyo near Calabar for Civil and Public Servants by the Cross River State Government is expected to be completed in August this year.

Experts said Nigeria can make over N34 billion on sale of carbon credit the nation is able to implement Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), projects.

The Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke has said that the recent ban on all logging within the state is to reduce deforestation and at the same time help in solving the climate change crisis.

Today, as some Nigerians celebrate love in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, many Niger Delta people are mourning the loss of their loved ones.

Today, as some Nigerians celebrate love in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, many Niger Delta people are mourning the loss of their loved ones.

Tokyo – Valentine’s Day in Japan is celebrated with a twist, women buy chocolates and gifts for men, including bosses and colleagues as well as lovers and spouses, instead of the other way round.

ABEOKUTA – Factional Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly; Mr. Emmanuel Soyemi Coker yesterday called the bluff of the Federal Government over the continued closure of the State House of Assembly and moved sitting to the Government House in Abeokuta to hold a session for the defense of the 2011 Appropriation Bill.