UMUAHIA— Dr. Sam Ahaiwe, the Federal Commissioner representing Abia State in National Population Commission, NPC, has called for comprehensive reform of the commission, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to make them purely skill acquisition based.

The Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Dr Tamuno Danagogo has called on the feuding factions in the Nigeria Football Federation to do the needful in order to avert further sanctions against Nigeria from the world football governing body, FIFA.

By Emmanuel Elebeke The Minister of Communication Technology, Dr. Omobola Johnson says, mobile subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa will exceed 635 million by the end of this year from the Africa’s increasing connectivity rate. Johnson made the prediction at the third African Internet Governance Forum, held in Abuja. She said the prediction is also expected to […]

ABUJA—AS Deltans cele-brate the swearing in of Dr. Steve Oru as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs by President Goodluck Jonathan, stakeholders and political leaders in the state have described his appointment as a good omen for the development of the Niger Delta region.

TWENTY-ONE witnesses have been lined up to testify against 18 soldiers who are being court-martialled for alleged mutiny.

THE aggrieved Ward 9 members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, have called on Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and the leadership of the party to dissolve the ward’s Executive Committee over alleged imposition of the executive.

THE Nigerian Medical Association called out its members on yet another strike about two weeks ago. The NMA is, no doubt, one of the most strike-prone associations in the country.

Barely three weeks after the launch of its latest flagship, Huawei P7 Ascend Smartphone, the President of Huawei, West African Region, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, Mr. Peng Song organized strategic engagement with its vendors and partners. While outlining the company’s strategies for West Africa in an exclusive interview with […]

LAGOS—In an effort to check cases of collapsed building, Lagos State Government has identified 1,760 illegal structures and 140 distressed buildings across the state.

ABUJA— THE solidarity visit of the Bring-back-our-girls campaign, led by the former Minister of Education and Solid Minerals, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, to the Senate President, Senator David Mark, yesterday turned to altercation and hot exchange of words as the group declared that Mark was not telling them anything tangible about the rescue of the girls.

GOVERNOR Willie Obiano of Anambra State, yesterday, expressed worry over the delay in the prosecution of kidnap and other criminal cases in the state, urging judges and magistrates to devote six days for handling criminal cases and one day for civil cases to reduce drastically the number of pending criminal cases in the various courts.

Abuja— A meeting scheduled between President Goodluck Jonathan and parents of abducted girls in Chibok, yesterday, could not hold as the parents shunned the meeting.

DELTA State Government, which has been battling with the menace of ghost workers, has said it has stopped the salaries of 17 of such workers, who were discovered to be drawing N50,000 per month illegally.

KANO — The Kano State Hisba Board, Monday said 55 people were arrested and convicted for alcohol consumption in Kano during the ongoing Ramadan.