Radiographers worry over National Health Bill
The Association of Radiographers of Nigeria, (ARN) Lagos State Branch, has picked holes in the constitution of the National Health Bill and appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan not to append his signature on it until all the grey areas are amicably resolved and corrected with the input of interest groups.
NFF commends President Jonathan
The Nigeria Football Federation has praised the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR for his personal motivation for the U-20 National Team, Flying Eagles at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia.
Customs intercepts ammunition
THE Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’ of the Nigeria Customs Service, yesterday, intercepted a Peugeot station wagon with unquantified rounds of ammunition along Shaaki-Oyo axis, and arrested a suspected gun runner.
Contact me so we can get him released, Mikel pleads
JOHN OBI MIKEL played in Chelsea’s goalless draw at Stoke yesterday despite knowing his father had been abducted in Nigeria.
We were mentally tougher than Nigeria – France coach
France Coach, Francis Smerecki has said that his team were mentally tougher than the Flying Eagles of Nigeria, during Sunday’s quarterfinal match at the ongoing FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia.
Mubarak arrives court in cage, trial adjourned for three weeks
Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak, bound to a stretcher and caged, appeared in court on Monday before the judge announced a three-week adjournment and an end to live television broadcasts.
10 killed in fresh Jos attacks
Ten people were killed in two separate overnight attacks outside the volatile Nigerian city of Jos, a local official said, leading angry residents to block roads to the area on Monday.
Squandering the nation’s wealth
Privatisation was a cardinal policy of the neo-liberal reforms advocated by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, for ailing third world economies in the 1980s.
ECWA sets up visitation panel to reposition varsity
In apparent resolve to tackle problems facing the institution, proprietor of Bingham University, Karu, The Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, weekend constituted a 19-member visitation panel to evaluate achievements and challenges being faced by the university since its take off.
Police kill ‘would-be suicide bomber’ in Maiduguri
Nigerian police said they killed a “would-be suicide bomber” seeking to drive an explosives-laden car into state police headquarters in the violence-torn city of Maiduguri on Monday.
Mikel Obi pleads for father’s release
Nigeria and Chelsea footballer John Obi Mikel pleaded Monday for his father’s kidnappers to free him, begging: “Please just let him go”.
The 24-year-old midfielder said he had always tried to serve his country and now needed his fellow Nigerians to help him secure his father’s release.
