Nigeria, Ghana… others to benefit from Microsoft student advantage
About seventeen African countries including Senegal, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Angola, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Mauritius, South Africa, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Morocco are to benefit from Student Advantage programme just launched by the software giant Microsoft.
Boko Haram leader claims Dec. 2 attack in new video
KANO – Boko Haram’s leader said in a video obtained by AFP on Thursday that the group was behind a daring raid on military installations in the north Nigerian city of Maiduguri earlier this month.
Senate probes leakage of new Automotive policy
THE Senate Committee on Investment yesterday commenced a probe on the alleged leaking of the nation’s Automotive policy to Stallion Group of Companies, dealers on Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, Voxwagen and Audi brands.
Man arraigned for allegedly assaulting wife, father-in-law
A 30-year-old man, Femi Olajide, was arraigned, yesterday, before a Magistrate’s court, sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, Ogun State for allegedly assaulting his wife and father in-law.
NDLEA arrests 16 suspects with 96 kg of hemp in Niger
THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), yesterday said it arrested 16 suspects in Niger State for being in possession of 96.55 kilogramme of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.
COSON to distribute 2013 copyright royalties
The Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) says it will hold an extra-ordinary general meeting to approve the distribution of 2013 copyright royalties for artistes in the music industry.
A widow and the point we miss
THOSE who accuse Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, of dehumanising or traumatising the now famed Benin widow are strident in their view that the widow did not deserve to be so upbraided as the Governor did even as a law breaker.
OBJ’s letter to Jonathan
I am constrained to make this an open letter to you for a number of reasons. One, the current situation and consequent possible outcome dictate that I should, before the door closes on reason and promotion of national interest, alert you to the danger that may be lurking in the corner. Two, none of the four or more letters that I have written to you in the past two years or so has elicited an acknowledgment or any response. Three, people close to you, if not yourself, have been asking, what does Obasanjo want? Four, I could sense a semblance between the situation that we are gradually getting into and the situation we fell into as a nation during the Abacha era. Five, everything must be done to guard, protect and defend our fledgling democracy, nourish it and prevent bloodshed. Six, we must move away from advertently or inadvertently dividing the country along weak seams of North-South and Christian-Moslem. Seven, nothing should be done to allow the country to degenerate into economic dormancy, stagnation or retrogression.
End impunity for violence, rights group tells FG
Brutal communal violence is being perpetuated in central Nigeria because of a failure to tackle the root causes of the bloodshed and prosecute those responsible, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
PDP crisis: Dikko’s C’tee recommends expulsion of Kazaure
CRISIS rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has taken another turn as the Alhaji Umaru Dikko led Disciplinary Committee has recommended to the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur that the the National Vice Chairman(North west) of the Party,Alhaji Ibrahim Kazaure be expelled from the party with immediate effect .
Oil theft undermining transformation agenda – FG
Barely 24 hours after an uproar over missing oil money amounting to over $49 billion, the Federal Government admitted last night that menace of increasing oil theft was undermining its Transformation agenda.
