THEIR activities and manner of operations could be likened to shoplifting, but the difference between this syndicate who specialized only in raiding shops and supermarkets is that they operated on get away motor-bikes popularly known as Okada and bore arms even though they claimed they do not shoot at their victims

Three years ago, I was due to get married. I met my ex at the university and when I took him home, my parents weren’t impressed with him. They didn’t like the fact that he came from a poor background but I didn’t care. I agreed to marry him when he raised the topic. A few weeks to the wedding, we had a heated argument.

LABOUR Party has promised to implement fully the new national minimum wage as proposed by the Federal Government in Abia State, if voted into power in the state.

WHEREAS the drop in Nigeria’s death rate is expected to reflect a general drop in mortality rate, the reverse appears to be the case. Statistics show that almost 800,000 Nigerian children die every year before the age of five. This makes Nigeria the nation with the highest number of infant deaths in Africa. While experts have continued to disagree on the rate of infant death in the country, it was discovered that nearly everyone is responsible for the alarming infant mortality rate in the world’s sixth largest oil producer CHARLES KUMOLU report

T he Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah, with a team of officials including the Executive Commissioner, Stakeholders Management, Mr. Okey Itanyi, and a host of others, last weekend, stormed Vanguard premises on a courtesy visit, where the team unveiled some of its agenda to lift the nation to the threshold of strong telecommunication countries of the world.

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA has expressed worries over the low sentences usually passed on drug convicts by judges, saying the trend was encouraging illicit drug trafficking in the country. Aside that, the anti-drug agency said judges were equally trivializing drug offences by granting an ‘option of fine’ to suspects, adding that the action was capable of discouraging the fight against trafficking in hard drugs

The Greece embassy, having established diplomatic ties with Nigeria since 1970, with an embassy in Abuja and a Consulate in Lagos, to serve

Greek President, Karolos Papoulias

intending Nigeria travelers owing to the mutual relationship the two Countries enjoy, Greek owned Companies in Nigeria have interestingly and remarkable invested in the Nigeria economy which led to development of what one may call a small Greek business Community

Broadband and Broadband Divide (BBD) is here! Download, Download, Download – when will Nigeria start to upload creative digital content into the global IT knowledge space? The first equation for today’s knowledge-sharing lesson is: “Broadband without accelerated indigenous software engine, applications and local content equals 21st Century Digital Slavery”.

In this interview, Mr. Victor Azebiri, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Assembly aspirant, who contested the party primaries to represent Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, spoke on the primaries, his disappointment at the party not providing a level playing ground for every contestant and other issues. Excerpts:

The British Government recently, published its Trade and Investment White Paper, an ambitious strategy aimed at nurturing International Trade and Investment relationships, which are billed to strengthen and enable developing Countries, build their own paths to growth.