If it was completed on schedule in 2009, the abandoned Federal Capital Territory (FCT)- Agatu-Bagana road project- which runs through Kogi and Nassarawa states -could have reduced the heavy traffic on the ever-busy Abuja-Lokoja highway. Many of the lives that have been lost on this narrow and pot-hole filled road would also have been saved.

As the only indigenous public examination body in Nigeria charged with the task of conducting school-based (June/July) and External candidates (November/December) Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) and also Junior Secondary School (JSI) as well as the National Entrance Examination into Senior Secondary Schools (SS1) of Federal Unity Senior Secondary Colleges (NEEFUSSC), the National Examinations Council (NECO) is confronted with several challenges which tend to undermine its smooth operations.

National Union of Textile Garments and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has expressed concern over rising cases of intolerance to civil protests by security agencies.

Chairman, DAAR Communications Plc., High Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi has charged the Nigerian media to imbibe professionalism in the sourcing and dissemination of its daily information for public consumption, saying this would further aid in the national unity and development of the nation.

I have met General Aliyu Gusau Mohammed only once; and that was sometimes last year. He was an aspiring presidential candidate; one of the four vying to be the Northern consensus candidate.

THE member representing Ughelli North/Ughelli South/Udu in the House of Representatives, Chief Austin Ogbaburhon has been dragged before a Delta State High Court sitting at Udu, for allegedly trespassing on a parcel of land, belonging to one Madam Grace Fere and her son, Mr. Stanley Ammon.

Erectile dysfunction can be described as a man’s inability to meet his conjugal obligations towards his spouse. A vital link in cases of infertility amongst couples, irrespective of material comfort provided for the woman.

Cross River State Government has proposed N144.62 billion for the 2012 fiscal year.

Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad, has asked Christians in the country to pray for peace and tranquility.

Uncertainty that has prevailed in the nation’s health sector in recent times deepened, yesterday, as essential healthcare services broke down completely in federal health institutions following a nationwide strike by members of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU.

THE Coastal and Inland Shipping Act 2003, otherwise called the Cabotage Law, was designed to empower Nigerians to not only own vessels but develop capacity in various spheres of shipping, which for years have been dominated by foreign interests.

The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, NPAN, will today host a Town Hall Meeting with the sole objective of promoting understanding of the desirability or otherwise of petroleum subsidy removal. It is the second in the series of Town Hall Meetings.

AS part of efforts to strengthen the ancestral link between the Binis and the Ekpeye people of Rivers State, members of the Benin Cultural Heritage Centre (BCHC) last week visited the Eze Ekpeye Logbo 11, Eze Robinson O. Robinson

Eagles remained rooted on the 43rd position in the year ending of the FIFA world rankings.Cote’d Ivoire unmoved from its previous 16 position remained the top team in Africa, with Ghana, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria and Senegal making the top five in the continent. Nigeria and Egypt are the out of the 2012 Nations Cup.

Mr. Okeme Idris, 200 level student of Criminology and Penology at Salem University, Lokoja, Kogi State over the weekend during a special programme organised by the institution for students to reflect on their past and present life, testified to how he was enslaved to drug addiction for 17 years.