Northern, Southern elders meet over insecurity, corruption
WORRIED that the country might implode given the rising wave of insecurity and corruption, elder statesmen and eminent persons drawn from all parts of the country brainstormed in Abuja, yesterday, to hammer out solutions to the twin menace.
Eko 2012: Olagbegi joins Team Delta
1987 All Africa Games gold medalist and one time Nigeria’s only female player on the circuit Rolake Olagbegi Kassim is in Nigeria training Delta’s tennis team to the National Sports Festival which kicks off next week in Lagos.
6 teenagers nabbed for alleged piracy, illegal bunkering in Rivers
A combined security team of anti-piracy and illegal bunkering in Rivers State has apprehended six teenagers for alleged piracy, illegal bunkering and kidnap activities in the state.
Senate committee chairman, others sued for defamation
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Hope Uzodinma and the National Insurance Commission (NIC) have been sued before a Federal High Court in Lagos, by Alliance and General Insurance PLC, (A&AGIP), claiming damages of N2 billion for defamation.
Furore, as NigComSat bill splits telecom community
Barely two weeks after telecom industry stakeholders sharply disagreed with the management of NIGCOMSAT over the relevance of a bill designed to make the government-owned satellite company a corporation, more reactions and questions have continued to greet the bill which keen observers argued is antithetical to telecom deregulation.
UK backs Nigeria on Mali mission
The United Kingdom, yesterday, announced that it would provide needed support for Nigeria and ECOWAS in their bid to dislodge the group of face-less terrorists that have hijacked strife-torn Mali and made peace hard to come by.
