A Nation’s Blessing
IF Blessing Okagbare, the 25-year-old Nigerian lady who is putting the country’s name on the global map, were a footballer, Nigerians would have appreciated her achievements more profoundly.
Book serial: Alabi-Isama’s recruits: Yesterday’s boys, today’s big men
Yesterday we ran the first instalment of this book serial, in which you read how starched uniforms and brass bands was all it took for young Godwin Alabi-Isama to decide on a lifetime in the military, and trained in Nigeria and Aldershot, England. As tactics instructor at military school, he had the honour of being sent on a recruitment tour during which he brought some of today’s big names into the Army. READ ON.
Expectations rise as FG concludes sale of electricity assets
Until last week, analysts were sceptical about the success privatisation of the nation’s 15 electricity Generation Companies, GENCOs, and Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs.
FG adopts new approaches to tackle housing deficit
WHEN President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Stakeholders Retreat on Housing and Urban Development, promised that the Federal Government will revolutionalise the housing sector by translating the National Housing Policy and National Urban Development Policy into a road map for housing development, it was expected that many would be enthusiastic.
Top 10 performing stocks:
On the top ten performing stocks last week were Jos International Breweries Plc, Vono Products Plc, Portland Paints & Products Nigeria Plc, IHS Plc, Courteville Business Solution Plc and Ikeja Hotels Plc.
50-yr-old accused of stabbing neighbour
A 50-year-old artisan, Christopher Ozor, was, yesterday, arraigned by the police, before an Igbosere Magistrate Court in Lagos, for allegedly using a broken bottle to stab his neighbour, Mr. Ikenna Chukwudi, on the head during a scuffle.
