Senate to probe over $420m global funding to fight Polio in Nigeria
AS part of activities marking this year's World Polio day, the Senate said Monday that it has concluded arrangements to probe the well over $420 billion donations to Nigeria from international bodies and organizations to help stop wild polio transmission in the country.
Residents descend on robber while trying to rape victim
LAGOS—A suspected member of a notorious armed robbery gang that had been terrorising residents of Igando, a Lagos suburb, was yesterday arrested while attempting to rape one of his female victims during an operation.
Excess Crude funds many lies
WHEN I listen to the utterances of Nigerian politicians, I remember the song of one musician, Tony Wilson, entitled, “The Politician Man of Many Words”. In that album, the artist described a politician as ‘a man of many words going to so many places, talking to so many people, and telling so many lies’.
Recession: Beyond the tragedy and pain
IN the 1960s, thinkers coined the word “Knowledge Economy” to announce a radical shift from traditional economies. It was an extraordinary gift by intellectuals of that era to a world that some people thought had become sluggish, uncreative and desperately in need of ideas.
Babies sell for N450,000 each in Akwa Ibom
Uyo—THE Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested no fewer than 11 suspected child traffickers in the state.
Extremism: FG urged to stop Nigerians traveling to study in Iran
Africans studying various higher institutions in Cyprus under the banner of African Students in Cyprus have called on the Federal government to stop Nigerian youths traveling to the Republic of Iran to study, warning that some of them end up being radicalized.
