Can the Southeast derail the Northeast momentum?

Can the Southeast derail the Northeast momentum?

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP stakeholders in Borno State may have picked up the gauntlet in a bold bid for the national chairmanship of the party. But the party stakeholders are, however, facing serious challenges from the Southeast which is now claiming that it must finish its own term of four years before ceding the office to another zone.
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Rising violence, crime wave: The drug connection

Rising violence, crime wave: The drug connection

When the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in Bauchi State, started its fight against crime, it discovered that 75 percent of youths in the state were under the influence of drugs

Disability Bill: Physically challenged commend Fashola

Disability Bill: Physically challenged commend Fashola

Persons living with disabilities in Lagos State have commended Governor Babatunde Fashola for signing the Lagos State Special People’s Bill into Law. According to them, the new legislation is rated among the best five in the world.

Stakeholders enumerate factors impeding manufacturing sector

Stakeholders enumerate factors impeding manufacturing sector

Participants drawn from various sectors of the economy have identified lack of basic infrastructure, corruption, poor corporate governance, inefficiency, low employee morale, and near absence of funds for research and development (R&D) as some of the factors impeding the growth of the Nigerian economy, especially the manufacturing sector.

Kristal Stone set for Mobile phone fair

Kristal Stone set for Mobile phone fair

Determined to bridge the existing gap between mobile phone users, dealers, brand owners and telecom operators in the country, an event manager and trade promotion firm, Kristal Stone Promotion company says all is now set for its first mobile phone fair today in Lagos.

Hawkers pay N300 daily to area boys

Hawkers pay N300 daily to area boys

There may be no end in sight to street trading in the Nigerian ICT markets despite ban by the Lagos State Ministry of Environment even as street urchins collect N300.00 daily from hawkers.

NCC, Mainone, google for Broadband summit

NCC, Mainone, google for Broadband summit

Indications has emerged that major stakeholders in the Nigeria broadband resources have sealed a deal with the umbrella body of the industry association, ATCON, to fashion out means of expanding the penetration and fine tuning the investment strategies.

Assessing Bankole’s House

Assessing Bankole’s House

THE election of the then 37-year-old Sabur Bankole on November 1, 2007, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, after the resignation of Olubunmi Etteh, was seen as a paradigm shift of a sort in the leadership of the House of Representatives. His manner of emergence devoid of imposition and his youthfulness attest to that. Bankole, himself, quickly set the ball rolling by promising to make the House the “House of the Nigerian people” through robust debates and a faithful discharge of its constitutional responsibilities of law-making, oversight functions and effective representation.