Calabar to host Eagles!
The Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed the UJ Esuene Stadium, Calabar as venue for next month’s 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2013 African Cup of Nations qualifying matches involving the Senior National Team,Super Eagles.
NYSC DG appeals to Imo govt
Director General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Nnamdi Okore-Afia, yesterday appealed to Imo State government to assist in upgrading facilities in the establishment’s secretariat in Owerri.
Tanker drivers to FG: We won’t leave Abuja-Kaduna road until…
ABUJA – Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, and Association of Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, have asked the Federal Government to provide them with ready and conducive parking lot in Tafa town on Abuja-Kaduna Road before they would vacate the road.
ONDO ACN GUBER: ACN must take over – Ajatta
TWO-TIME member of the House of Representatives, representing Oshodi-Isolo Federal Constituency II in Lagos State, Chief Jaiyeola Ajatta, is now a gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ondo State. In this interview, Ajatta speaks on how his party, ACN will take over in Ondo State at the 2012 governorship election as well as his programmes for the state. Excerpts:
Lagos disburses N32m worth of agricultural inputs to farmers
The administration of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has built a 20,000 metric tonnes per annum Rice Milling Plant at the Agro-Industrial Park, Imota to boost capacity of the local rice production in the state. The government has also increased the hectareage rice plantation from 30 ha to 450 ha and is planning to increase production to 1000 ha.
NUJ President laments killing of journalists
OWERRI – The National President of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Alhaji Mohammed Garba, yesterday condemned the senseless killing of journalists in the country. According to him, the NUJ has lost no fewer than 25 journalists in 2012 alone.
