Mrs Ortom donates to Agatu IDPs
Over 345 internally-displaced persons, IDPs, and widows from Agatu Local Government Area have received food items, clothes and cash gifts from wife of the Benue State Governor, Mrs. Eunice Ortom to celebrate the Yuletide.
NGO creates jobs for 710 youths, boosts 3,000 widows in Ebonyi
THE Comrade Chinedu Ogah Foundation, CCOF yesterday said it has given out employment to 710 youths across different tribes and political parties divide since the organization came on board in 2006.
Varsities tasked on quality research for economic growth
TERTIARY institutions have been tasked to cease the opportunity of the recession and engage in quality research work of new scientific capacity and technology to boost the nation’s economy.
Amuneke bags chieftaincy title
Ex international, Emmanuel Amuneke, was yesterday in Eziobodo, Owerri west, Imo state, conferred with a chieftaincy tittle by the Eze in council of his community, Eziobodo.
Togolese sues SEC over firm’s shut down
A Togolese, Tsomenefa Kounougna and his firm, Flexus Global Solutions and Investment Limited, have dragged the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, before a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over the shutting down of the company.
The capture of Sambisa Forest
ON Saturday, December 24, 2016, President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, announced that “finally”, the Boko Haram insurgency had been crushed following the invasion, by our gallant troops, of “Camp Zero”, the final bastion of the evil Islamist group, Boko Haram, in Sambisa Forest.
2016: Year of inconclusiveness
THE outgoing year 2016 has been unique in several ways. It was principally the year of inconclusive elections; when re-run polls brought forward from the previous year could not be concluded in single shots. The harder they tried, the more the elections became hanging.
Publix Pharma set to tackle rising incidence of illnesses in Nigeria
As part of efforts to reduce the incidence of communicable and non-communicable diseases, as well as Neglected Tropical Diseases in Nigeria, experts have called for increased access of Nigerians to drugs and other treatment facilities to tackle the rising incidence illnesses in the country.
Gov Bello releases N2bn for salaries owed by past administration
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has released N2 billion to immediate past political office holders in all the 21 local government areas of the state as part payment of their salaries and other benefits owed them by former governor, Idris Wada.
206 indigent students get Wole Olanipekun Scholarship Scheme
ADO-Ekiti-No fewer than 206 students of secondary schools, undergraduates in tertiary institutions and students of the Nigerian Law School went home with cheques for their scholarship from legal icon, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN).
Itel mobile donates school bags to students
ITEL Mobile, a technology company has donated school bags, pens and maths-sets to 250 children of ABQ and Adewura Nursery and Primary Schools located at slum area in Ajegunle, Lagos.
