MEMBERS of the National Working Committee, NWC of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, staff, party members and visitors were, yesterday, locked out of the Wadata Plaza, National Secretariat of the party by aspirants from Rivers State, who were disqualified from participating in last Saturday’s state House of Assembly primaries.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will soon review downward the interest rate for borrowing through the N220 billion Micro, Small And Medium Enterprises (MSME) fund.

THE average Nigerian journalist is today torn between the need to obey the biblical injunction of confessing positive at all time, particularly in the face of the perceived power of the tongue, coupled with the need to engage in image-laundering on matters concerning his nation on the one hand; and the general atmosphere of deceit around him on the other, that determining the real truth becomes a Herculean task.

By Ochereome Nnanna FOLLOWING the savage bomb and gun attacks on defenceless worshippers in the Kano Grand Mosque last Friday, some misguided commentators, especially in the North have, as usual, been looking for scapegoats or fall guys to carry the can of blame. Shortly after the ugly incident that claimed the lives of dozens of […]

An aspirant for the House of Representatives, Oredo federal constituency in Edo State on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Osahon Igiebor has appealed to delegates of the party to elect credible candidates, who will fly the party’s ticket in the 2015 general elections.

I am glad to tell you that all the 32 Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) programmes we presently run enjoy full accreditation by the National Council for Colleges of Education (NCCE) and this has been consistent for nearly two decades. Also, all the 16 education degree programmes in partnership with the Ekiti State University have 100 per cent accreditation. This means that this College is comparable to any teachers’ training institution that runs a degree programme in Nigeria.

Brent rose to $71 a barrel yesterday, recovering some of its losses from the previous session as a turbulent market searched for a price floor after a nearly 40 percent fall since June. Oil has seen choppy trade since the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said last week it would not lower output despite an oversupplied market.

Who will be the guests in the ‘five-star hotel’ built in the national theatre complex? My guess is as good as yours, Businessmen, Tourist, Politicians. Let’s stop there, suppose all these people want to unwind before they turn in after the day’s work, what do they turn to before they turn in?

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, released the result of the last Saturday’s state House of Assembly primaries for the 29 constituencies in the state.

Alarmed by the fall inglobal oil prices, Petroleum Minister and President, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, has said that Nigeria needs to adopt a more strategic approach to sustaining the oil industry.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has advocated the establishment of a joint military task force between Nigeria and other neighbouring African countries in an effort to contain the current insurgency by Boko Haram in the region..

CHIEF Executive Officer of NGZ-AGSAM Limited, Ngozi Ugoji, has called for strengthening of legislative instruments to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all, including Persons With Disabilities, PWDs.

ONCE upon a time a man in perfect health announced to his family that he should die on his next birthday. When it was his next birthday, he refused to go to work, saying that he should certainly die before midnight. His family was worried and decided to call in the family physician.

And thus, near furtively, he left, the last of the vintage links to Ibadan of the Penkelemes Years. He left quietly, as he lived his life – fusslessly. Slight and willowy, he exuded an irrepressible optimism in the social therapy of theatre, and its autonomous but vulnerable existence as a community in itself, for which no personal sacrifice is excessive.

STERLING Partnership, one of Nigeria’s leading commercial law firm in Lagos, has organised an end of year networking reception and interaction for its clients and friends.
The event was jointly hosted by the acting British Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. Mike Purves at the British residence in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The main thrust of the event which commenced at 6.30 p.m., was appreciation to Sterling Partnership’s clients and friends of the firm for their business and support through 2014.
The private sector, government, diplomats and members of their diplomatic missions attended the event.