National Youth Games: Anambra hits Abuja with 150 contingents
- No fewer than 150 athletes from Anambra will feature in the maiden National Youth Games (NYG) scheduled to begin on Dec. 6 in Abuja
‘Fast and Furious’ star Paul Walker died of impact, fire
“Fast and Furious” star Paul Walker died from ‘traumatic and thermal injuries” in a fiery car crash, coroners said Wednesday, fueling suggestions he may have survived the initial impact.
NAFDAC apprehends drug counterfeiter operating in toilet
By CHIOMA OBINNA The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has nabbed a trader, Chijioke Nwagu,for allegedly manufacturing and selling of counterfeit medicines. At a media briefing in Lagos in Lagos, Director- General NAFDAC,Dr. Paul Orhii, said Nwagu after mixing the concoction, dispensed same into empty bottles and labels it as […]
SEC clamps down on 3 illegal companies, warns fraudsters to stop malpractices
The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, weekend revealed that it has clampdown on three illegal companies operating in the country and warned fraudsters to desist from such illegal practices or face the wrath of law.
Pension, gratuity are legitimate rights of employees — TUC
TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has said pension and gratuity are legitimate rights of employees that should not be tempered with, declaring that attempt by some employers and political class to surreptitiously discontinue gratuity payment must be resisted.
Winning the Nobel didn’t affect my writing— WOLE SOYINKA
Nobel laureate, Professor. Wole Soyinka, is not somebody you meet every time, not to talk of interviewing. But at one of the programmes of the just concluded Ake Art and Books Festival held at June 12 Cultural centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, tagged In the Shadow of memory: An audience with Wole Soyinka, afforded four undergraduates the opportunity to meet him and ask questions on his muse, activism, religious views, the Pyrates Confraternity and others. Vanguard Art was there too. Excerpts:
