At last, Jonathan visits Maiduguri
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, visited Borno State for the second time since a state of emergency was declared in the three north eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe following the killings of thousands of people by Boko Haram insurgents.
Funding is the greatest challenge to tourism training – Balogun
“I love people, particularly those who are willing to give 110 per cent to see a project done. For me, the success of Nigeria is the success of each and every one of us.”—DG NIHOTOUR
Your PVC is your power, Adangba tells Muslims
Muslims in the country have been urged to collect their Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVC) .
Rice backward integration policy attracts over $1.6bn investment
Those who have keyed into the policy are allowed to enjoy 10% tariff and 20% levy on imported rice, while on the other hand mere rice traders are allowed to import at 10% tariff and 60% levy.
Group petitions Presidency over plans to sack 10,000 dockworkers
A group of dock workers, under the Delta state branch of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN has sent a petition to President Goodluck Jonathan over alleged plans by the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA to sack more than 10,000 Nigerian dockworkers.
Travails of a dismissed, ailing military officer
NIGERIA yesterday observed this year’s remembrance for the country’s fallen heroes who died in active service as members of the Nigerian Armed Forces. This came at a time the family of a distressed former military personnel, Kingsley Iberi, who claims to have been wrongfully dismissed from the Nigerian Army, was lamenting and telling their tale of woe to every sympathetic ear.
