2015: Politicians in Delta urged to stop overheating polity
TWO prominent Deltans, a former Head of Service in the defunct Bendel State, Chief Patrick Onyeobi and former Presidential aide and Commissioner for Economic Planning in the state, Chief Clement Ofuani, have called on the political class, especially the opposition, to stop overheating the polity, which they said was not in the interest of the country.
20-yr-old man drowns in Delta
TRAGEDY struck at Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State, on Boxing Day as a young man of about 20 years drowned in a beach in the community.
Prologue: Celebrating a Nigerian troika
In spite of the persisting gloomy indices portraying Nigeria as a country still mired in backwardness, the year 2013 was full of silver linings on the dark clouds of the nation’s firmament. Our economy was given a healthy rating by many reputable international agencies, though it was generally agreed that little of it is being felt by the people on the streets.
Eagles job: Keshi knows fate Jan 8
The first meeting of the executive committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in 2015 will take place in Lagos on January 8. Sources at the secretariat of the federation in Abuja told Sports Vanguard that the meeting will be holding outside Abuja so as to enable members to fully participate in the forthcoming Glo/CAF award slated to take place in Lagos on the
LUTH CMD urges striking health workers to embrace dialogue
Professor Chris Bode, the acting Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos, yesterday, urged the striking health workers to embrace dialogue.
Astrazeneca supports local research with US$0.3m
Global biopharmaceutical Concern, AstraZeneca is investing $300,000 in research on healthcare challenges in Nigeria.
2013: Sustaining the battle against HIV/AIDS
Ebere Unachi (not real name) had lost her husband during the infamous 2011 Christmas day bomb blast in Suleja, Niger State. The untimely demise of the father of four left the 38-year old petty trader, with the huge responsibility of taking care of her large home.
JTF arrests six suspected pirates in Bayelsa, recover cache of arms
Yenagoa—Operatives of the anti-kidnapping and sea robbery squad of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, code-named Operation Pulo Shield, have arrested six suspected pirates and recovered cache of arms in the creeks of Bayelsa State. The arrest followed two separate attacks on JTF troops and other commuters along Sangana and Santa-Barbara waterways off […]
Athletics: Ebewele blames poor performance on inadequate funding
Former Technical Director, Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Brown Ebewele has posited that athletes could not perform optimally in 2013 because of inadequacy of funds to prepare for competitions.
Ebewele said in Benin that if the required funds were in place athletes would have prepared adequately to perform better than they did.
Buhari, Jonathan and national amnesia
By Adeyemi Johnson THE emotions and sentiments which build near the Nigerian elections compels one to further contemplate the awesome creativity of William Shakespeare in capturing the universality of the human mass psyche. Reflecting on the sentiments being built in hyperbolic terms on the candidacy of Buhari by some sections of the public, one cannot […]
NUPENG denies suspension of planned strike
NIGERIA Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday, debunked media report that it had suspended its planned strike to protest the Federal Government moves to privatize the four public refineries in the first quarter of this year, saying it was mobilizing for the strike.
