Midnight fire razes P-Harcourt Mile One market, two-storey building
HUNDREDS of shops stuffed to the brim with food, clothings and other items, as Christmas shopping peaked, were razed in a wild fire which reduced the Mile I market in Port Harcourt to rubles, yesterday.
LAWMA signs MoU with private firm on waste recycling
By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has signed a memorandum of understanding, MoU, with Alkem Nigeria Limited, a private company involved in PET bottles recycling. Speaking at the signing of the pact in Lagos, the Managing Director of LAWMA, Mr.Ola Oresanya, said that the MoU signing signified the formalisation of partnership between […]
Explosion rocks Rivers Deputy Gov’s office
There was an explosion yesterday at the Deputy Governor’s wing of Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt.
Court halts operation of firm in Ebonyi
BY PETER OKUTU ABAKALIKI—THE Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki yesterday stopped the operation of Royal Salt Limited in Ishiagu Enyigba in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The suit, FHC/AI/CS/43/2013 involved David Igbuju Felix Nwoshim, Francis Nwibo, Okemini Ebonyi, Friday Itumo, Ikechukwu Nweze and Mbam Ode as plaintiffs and Royal Salt Limited as […]
Banks reopen in Imo
BY CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI—Relief has eventually come the way of Imo residents, following the reopening of commercial banks, unceremoniously closed last week by the state government for allegedly failing to pay tax into its coffers. Our reporter, who went round Owerri municipality yesterday afternoon, noticed that scores of cash strapped citizens besieged their banks to […]
Kwara Gov presents N124.5bn budget for 2014
Governor Abdulfahah Ahmed of Kwara State yesterday presented the 2014 budget proposal of N124,525,957,113, before the state House of Assembly for consideration.
Court stops anti-Amaechi Speaker
BY Emmanuel Aziken MR. Evans Bipi, who emerged as factional Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, following the crisis that engulfed the legislative House last July, has been ordered to stop parading himself as Speaker. The order, given by an Ahoada High Court, Rivers State, was upon an interim injunction of the court, following […]
Umeh,Ezeonwuka urge media to assist Obiano
BY OKONKWO EZE ONITSHA—Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh and the Ogirishi Igbo, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, have appealed to the mass media to assist the governor-elect of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, in moving the state forward. Making the appeal at the weekend when he led the governor-elect to pay […]
Parents urge FG to solve infrastructure problems in Unity Schools
By SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN—National Parents Association of Federal Unity Schools, NAPAFUSS, has decried infrastructural decay in Unity Schools in the country and called on the Federal Government to find urgent solution to the problem. In a communiqué signed by the National President of the association, Dr Paul Aigbogun, after the annual general meeting of the […]
‘There’s need for exceptional value in IT solutions’
By Prince Osuagwu A Nigerian IT company, Techvibes International Limited has urged Nigerian businesses that depend on IT competencies to shore up investments, to ensure that IT solutions at their disposals are of exceptional value, else their businesses may not attain world class standards. The company’s CEO, Mr. Michael Oglegbaargued that as contemporary institutions and […]
Coomassie calls for constitution amendment
Katsina—Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, former Inspector-General of Police, IGP, yesterday, called for amendment of the country’s constitution to make the protection of social and economic rights of citizens justifiable. He made the remarks in Katsina in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN. Coomassie said the purpose of government was not only to protect […]
Emulate Mandela, Fawehinmi, cleric urges citizens
The chaplain of Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa Ikeja, Reverend Femi Taiwo, has urged citizens in general, and parents in particular, irrespective of their religious belief, class or sex, to leave enduring legacy to their children after they depart this world.
A presidency under siege
It took the supernatural insight of Mr. Yinka Odumakin, the spokesperson of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere for many to comprehend what was alleged to be a coordinated attack on President Goodluck Jonathan.
Gov Orji has disappointed his critics, says former aide
The tenure of Abia State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has been described as a surprise and a disappointment to his political opponents who had regarded the state as good for nothing for which reason they employed the services of hack writers to derogate the image of the state.
Vandalism and a nation’s quest for improved power supply
*Nebo, others call for stiffer penalties By CHARLES KUMOLU BEFORE the November 2013 handover of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN to 10 successor companies, who emerged after a bidding process, the issue of vandals had been a threat to the quest for steady power supply. But the situation seems to have assumed […]
