THE Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, has engaged Style House, a fashion creative consulting agency in Nigeria with years of experience in the fashion industry, to manage its Human Capital Development Centre, HCDC, Lagos, to develop capacity for the garment sector.

EDO State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole yesterday called for increase in the number of items excluded from accessing foreign exchange in the country as part of measures to protect the nation’s currency from further devaluation.

The rivalry crisis between the two monarchs in Ikere-Ekiti in Ikere Local Government of Ekiti State assumed a dramatic dimension yesterday, as Olukere accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of personally damaging a billboard carrying his portrait erected in the heart of the town.

A former member of Rivers State House of Assembly, Monday Eleanya, was yesterday, shot dead by gunmen on Ada George Road, Port Harcourt.
Vanguard gathered that he was driving in his SUV when the gunmen opened fire on him, killing him on the spot.

Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, has said that his administration will continue to partner the private sector towards boosting the economy of the state.

Muslim Public Affairs Centre, MPAC and Nasrul-lahil-Fathi Society of Nigeria Agency for Zakat and Sadaqat (NAZAS) have concluded plans to distribute relief materials to the over 2.2 million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs in North East of the country. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR had last November said the population of IDP in the North Eastern part of the country had risen to 2.2million.

My very dear childhood friends, Datta, Kio and Kaine Amachree, recently lost their wonderful mother, Otunba Benedicta Olunike Oluwole. She was born in 1936 in Kaduna and was one of five children of the late Chief Ben A.F. Oluwole – a relative of the Balogun of Ijebu-Remo and member of the Latawa Sagamu royal family – and Mrs Marian Taiwo Oluwole (nee Odupele).

THE authorities of Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma, Edo State, have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the state chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, to retract his comment that the eight projects recently commissioned by Governor Adams Oshiomhole were projects of the former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led administration or face legal action.

Three of the most known suspects apprehended over the aborted coup were erstwhile commissioner for defence, Major-General Illiya Bisala, the ringleader Lt. Col. Bukar Dimka and the erstwhile military governor of the former Benue-Plateau State, Mr. Joseph Gomwalk. Interestingly, they were all from the defunct Benue Plateau State, where most of those involved in the uprising came from.

Recently, Ogun State celebrated forty years of its existence. Ogun State is a state in South-Western Nigeria which was carved out of the old Western Region on February 3, 1976 by the then regime of General Murtala Mohammed and General Olusegun Obasanjo. The state was one of the nineteen states created out of the former twelve states structure of 1967.

Telecoms giants Globacom has terminated its association the Nigeria Professional Football League.

The Imo State Police Command has described as false, the reports that it shot a medical doctor last Wednesday, during a protest by medical practitioners in the state.

Staff and students of the Polytechnic, Ibadan are still trying to cope with the bitter pills of losing nine people in an auto crash. It is one accident too many. That fateful day, Monday 8, 2016 was supposed to be a joyous day but it turned out to be a day they wished never came as their joy soon vanished into the thin air. One of them was rejoicing for the arrival of a new baby and as it is their custom to celebrate with one another, they boarded a hired bus from the Department of Quantity Surveying to Oyo town to rejoice with the family of the new baby.

By Clifford Ndujihe, Deputy Political Editor ARGUABLY, late General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, Nigeria’s fourth head of state, is one of the country’s most popular rulers. He came to power on a promising note, showed readiness to deliver and was taken out of power when the ovation was loudest. The 198 days he spent in office […]

CALABAR—FOUR reverend sisters travelling from Ogoja, in Cross River State, to Uyo, Akwa Ibom, for a church programme yesterday, lost their lives when their car had a head-on collision with a truck along the Ogoja-Ikom highway.