Battle for Senate: The contenders and pretenders
TWO days to the National Assembly elections, four political parties – the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN; Congress for Progressive Change, CPC; Democratic Peoples Party, DPP and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have emerged as leading contenders for the three senatorial seats in Sokoto State.
A peep into the profile of the leading candidates shows that the state will be in for an electrifying race on Saturday.
ANPP is not a violent party – Shekarau
Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP presidential candidate, says his party members are not prone to violence
Nigeria yet to implement the UN Convention on Women – Amnesty
Amnesty International has said that Nigeria had yet to implement the UN Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 25 years after it came into force.
UK govt lists Yoruba, Igbo languages on census enumeration form
Two Nigerian languages, Yoruba and Igbo, have been listed among those into which the UK census enumeration form have been translated.
Delta school of marine tech kicks off with 560 students
Delta State School of Marine Technology, Burutu, has kicked off with 560 students admitted into five departments for National Diploma, Pre-ND and other professional courses for two-year programmes.
750,000 women commit abortion yearly – NURHI
NIGERIAN Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, NURHI, has disclosed that not less than 750,000 abortions are committed yearly in the country, bemoaning the lackadaisical attitude of the three tiers of government to family planning.
