Angolan president returns home after health checks
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has been dogged by reports of poor health, has returned to Luanda after nearly a month in Spain, party officials said Tuesday.
Anxiety over IPOB’s sit-at-home order today
ALL private and mission schools in Anambra State would remain closed today in obedience to the sit-at-home directive by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
Ijaw not using other N’Delta tribes as pawns – Chief Loyibo
WARRI—CONVENER/COORDINATOR of the Niger Delta People’s Congress and a leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, High Chief Mike Ekayama Loyibo, has faulted the perception that the Ijaw ethnic group was using other nationalities of the Niger-Delta region as hostages to fortune under the façade of Niger-Delta struggle.
Banking Under Buhari: Growth mired by deteriorating asset quality
THE banking industry recorded sluggish growth within the first two years of the President Buhari administration. Even that marginal growth was mired by phenomenal increase in non-performing loans, NPLs, occasioned by combination of naira depreciation, high inflation and downturn in economic activities.
JAMB and the rest of us
The best way to stop the attacks and criticisms is for Professor Oloyede to transform JAMB to present day modernity
Re: JAMB’S computer-based torture
It normal for people to resist change, innovation and the unfamiliar but it is prudent not to overdo the phobia for novelty especially when the benefit outweighs the downside. An article by Wale Fatade, published online and titled “JAMB’S computer-based torture” however went to the extreme in its criticism of the just conducted Unified Tertiary […]
Need to address budget, MTEF structural distortion
WITH the latest update on the 2017 budget upheavals taken to a ridiculous level by the two key arms of the Federal Government – the Executive and the Legislature, we draw attention to the wider policy implication of the continued delay in putting the spending plan into operation.
Groups, riverine residents spoil for showdown with Okowa over bridge
BURUTU— A coalition of six civil society groups, CSOs and riverine dwellers in Delta State, last week, served Governor Ifeanyi Okowa a notice of their plan to protest against him today (Tuesday) over alleged abandonment of Ayokoromo-Egbo-Ede Bridge project in Burutu Local Government Area by him.
FG cancels oil blocs awarded to N-Deltans
A group of investors and indigenes of the Niger Delta, yesterday, condemned the Federal Government’s cancellation of Oil Prospecting Licences, OPL 2001, 2002 and 2003 in the Utapate field, stating that it was capable of re-igniting chaos in the Niger Delta region.
Boko Haram remains defeated —Lafiya Dole Commander
Outgoing Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Lucky Irabor, yesterday, insisted that Boko Haram had been defeated.
Video: Yoga class, Energized Yoga Flow pt 1
Energized Yoga exercise
