Customs to boost border security
The Comptroller of Customs in-charge of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara Area Command, Alhaji Abdulkarim Hussaini, has said that the service would be proactive in its surveillance across Nigeria’s borders in its efforts to ensure hitch-free elections during the April polls.
CDC holds voters education on new Electoral Act
The inconsistencies in the Electoral Act 2010 as Amended again came to the front burner at Osogbo, the Osun State capital during the enlarged South West zonal workshop on the amendment of the Act, organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development with support from the United Nations Development Programme
Tasking Art Journalists in season of Elections
The quarterly programme in its 4th edition has become a critical platform through which culture journalists, industry leaders and culture stakeholders from across all the parastatals in the Ministry of Culture come together to engage not only their trade
Lagos engages 300 for free Medical Mission
AT least 300 medical workers consisting of medical doctors, pharmacist, nurses, nutritionist, health educators and laboratory scientists are engaged in the on-going 24th free Medical Mission at Somolu, Somolu local government area
7.85% economic growth due to global recovery
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, has attributed the 7.85 per cent econo-mic growth witnessed in Nigeria to the global economic recovery which impacted positively on the economy.
Students in mixed reactions over cowbell Maths exam
Three hundred and seventy six students from several public and private secondary schools at Amuwo Odofin Community Senior Secondary School, Mile 2, Lagos, centre, sat for the first stage examination of 2011 Cowbell National Secondary Schools Mathematics competition,
Politics Of Minimum Wage
WHEN politicians are out for votes they can postpone problems, pretend to solve some and behave as if they no longer know what the issues are. The search for votes is too important to be left at the whims of labour, which threatened to disrupt the elections. It is time to play politics with the minimum wage.
PDP plans to disrupt polls – Oshiomhole
ACTIVITIES were brought to a standstill for several hours in the ancient city of Benin, yesterday, when Governor Adams Oshiomhole met with thousands of market women and youths numbering over 700, urging them to ensure that they protect their votes at weekend’s election. Oshiomhole raised alarm that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had perfected plans to disrupt elections in the state.
New Era Foundation empowers youths with scholaship
In a bid to keep a promise long made by The New Era Foundation (NEF), ‘in service to humanity’ and ‘to empower the youth in the cause of their disciplines and academics’, a philanthropist, Chief Razak Okoya recently gave N100, 000 scholarship each to members of the Council of One-Day governors. They were products of one of the numerous NEF activities.
Nobody can rig polls in C-River – INEC
Ahead of Saturday’s National Assembly elections in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured political parties in Cross River State, that the commission had put everything in place to ensure that there was no rigging.
We’ll reinstate sacked Ogun workers – Olurin
OGUN State Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Adetunji Olurin, yesterday, said that civil servants being forced to support the aspiration of Governor Olugbenga Daniel’s protege, Mr. Gboyega Isiaka would be protected.
