Declare now, group tells Bomadi PDP Chair
THE Bomadi Local Government Chapter Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Pius Labo, has received the support of a renowned grassroots-based women's group, under the auspices of South-South Ladies, Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State, calling on him to declare for the state House of Assembly seat in 2015 in the interest of the constituency.
Pentathlon ‘ll mine more gold for Team Nigeria – Nnaji
President of Pentathlon Federation, Dr Jonathan Nnaji has expressed hope that with the coming of Pentathlon in the Nigerian sporting scene, Team Nigeria would have an edge in adding more medals at international competitions.
80 Nigerians to benefit from NITDA overseas postgraduate studies
Mr Peter Jack, the Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, says the agency will send 80 Nigerian students to different parts of the world for Post Graduate Studies.
Eyakenyi inaugurates new ARCON board
THE reconstituted board of the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria, ARCON, was last week inaugurated in Abuja by the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs Akon Eyakenyi who charged the members to check the incursion of quacks into the profession.
FG empowers 400 farmers in Bauchi GES scheme
No fewer than 400 fish farmers have benefited from the Aquaculture Value Chain initiative of the Federal Government’s Growth Enhancement Support scheme (GES) in Bauchi.
Nigeria @ 54: Gridlock and the illusive eldorado
WITH peremptory magistracy and awesome gallantry our founding fathers fought for the political independence of our glorious country, Nigeria. They were like the Roman hero Horatius, who fought with Spartan intrepidity in defending Rome from the Etruscan invaders. Horatius asked like our founding fathers: “And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods”?
116, 000 IDPs in Yobe get N500million relief items
Relief has come the way of about 116, 000 internally displaced persons in Yobe State with the approval of the distribution of items worth N500 million by President Goodluck Jonathan in continuation of humanitarian assistance to victims of insurgency in the North East part of the country. The relief was channelled through the Presidential Committee on Relief Procurement and Distribution.
2015: Guber aspirant boasts in Ebonyi
A governorship aspirant of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Ebonyi State, Senator Anthony Agbo, has boasted that APGA would win Ebonyi in the 2015 general election.
Hardware dealers to quit Idumota over unfriendly business environment
OVER 2,550 traders under the umbrella of Tools and Hardware Dealers Association of Nigeria (TAHDAN) have concluded plans to move their businesses from Idumota area of Lagos Island to the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex, Badagry Express Way, due to unfriendly business environment.
Couple, one other win 2014 Nobel Prize in medicine
A Norwegian couple, Professors Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser and American-British neuroscientist, Prof John O’Keefe, have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain, described as an “inner GPS.”
‘Our chairman shuttles between Yenagoa, Oporoma’
BEFORE now, council chairmen in Bayelsa State had the proclivity to residing at hotels in Yenagoa, the state capital from where they administer their councils, only to resurface fleetingly during public functions or when monthly allocations were to be shared at their council headquarters.
