Local Content: NERC to set guidelines in Q3
To ensure that the Nigerian electricity industry gives priority to indigenous operators and workers, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC is set to roll out regulation on national content.
Nigerians’ taste for foreign goods falls
Nigerians’ penchant for foreign goods and services fell by 43 percent in 2012, according to figures released by National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, Monday.
Demuren sacked as NCAA D-G
resident Goodluck Jonathan has approved the removal of Dr Harold Demuren from office as the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) with effect from March 12.
NDLEA arrests grandmother with cocaine
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday arrested a 53-year- old grandmother with 1.00 kilogramme of cocaine at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja.
Father, son electrocuted in Abeokuta
Tragedy struck, on Sunday, when a police officer, Sunday Joseph and his 17-year-old adopted son, Moses were electrocuted at a construction site in front of the governor’s house at Oke-Igbein, Abeokuta, the state capital.
‘Violence kills more women than road accident, malaria’
President, Soroptimist International of Nigeria, Mrs.Funlola Buraimoh-Ademuyewo, has bemoaned the increasing spate of violence against women, calling for the need for a more gender-sensitive society where more women and girls can achieve their individual and collective potentials.
Conclave for new Pope begins today
Catholic Cardinals will commence the process of electing a new Poe today when they go into seclusion in the conclave with no frontrunner in view.
Lagos to close down Isolo mortuary March 26
Lagos State Government, yesterday, said Isolo General Hospital’s mortuary would be shut down from March 26, 2013 in the interest of public health.
There’s nothing wrong with Genevieve’s dress – Designer Amos Tafiri
WHO says lightning never strikes twice in the same place? Think again. Last week,Stars shone over and over again on the red carpet at the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards. Elegant actress and movie diva Omotola Jolade Ekeinde burned brightly in a fiery orange patterned-blue striped floor length dress and then in metallic black of the same length that seemed to do her more justice than beauty. Mnet MD, Biola Alabi also changed up her dresses, seen in Iconic Invanity, and then later to a strapless gorgeous white dress with gold detailing.
Ex-cop to die by hanging for killing colleague
AN Umuahia High Court, presided over by Justice Agwu Umah Kalu, has sentenced a former police officer, Corporal Umaru Mohammed to death by hanging over the killing of another police man.
LASU cult war: Lagos CP reads riot act to students
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Umar Manko, Monday, warned students of tertiary institutions in the state to abstain from cultism, threatening that the command would not tolerate any unrest caused by cult members.
