We, on the edge
By Hakeem Baba-Ahmed It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear — Dick Cavett YOU are reading my last column in this great paper. It is difficult to believe that I resumed only a few months ago after years of absence, owing to the generosity and firm proddings of […]
FOOD BLOCKADE: Prices skyrocket in Nsukka, Aba, environs
*It’s a good thing for Igbo —ASETU *Sanwo-Olu must start Lagos Agric Revolution now —Bode George, Olarenwaju, Dallas *N-Delta states must synergize, rejig agricultural policies —Okaba *We’ll ensure food production, supply to South not affected —MBF By Anayo Okoli, Dapo Akinrefon, Dennis Agbo, Luminous Jannamike, Emem Idio, Ikechukwu Odu & Steve Oko Following the order […]
Asset recovery: Don’t enter into agreement with Okorocha, Pressure groups tell Uzodimma
By Chinonso Alozie The leader of the Imo State All Progressives Congress, APC, popularly known as Allied Forces, Theodore Ekechi, yesterday, called on the governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, not to accept any form of agreement from Senator Rochas Okorocha in the recovery of stolen Imo properties. Ekechi, a former Imo Commissioner for Information, […]
E-Payments in Nigeria decline across all channels
By Elizabeth Adegbesan THE value of electronic payment (e-Payment) transactions in Nigeria fell month-on-month, MoM, by 10 per cent to N19.9 trillion in January 2021, from N22 trillion in December 2020. Similarly, the volume of transaction declined by 20 per cent to 696.2 million in January 2021, from 867.4 million in December 2021. Vanguard analysis […]
COVID-19 pandemic unlikely to end this year — WHO
…Nigeria receives first batch of COVID-19 vaccines The World Health Organisation, WHO, said, yesterday, it was unlikely the COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2021. “I think it will be very premature and unrealistic to think that we are going to finish with this virus by the end of the year. “What we can finish with […]
Petrol price hits N170 per litre as scarcity persists
…As Labour mobilises against hoarding, price increase …We have adequate stocks, IPMAN, MOMAN, others By Udeme Akpan, Victor Ahiuma-Young, Obas Esiedesa & Prince Okafor Despite assurances, many oil marketers, yesterday, continued to sell petrol at an average of N170 per litre in different parts of the country, according to Vanguard investigation. Our Correspondents, who went […]
OAU announces dates for post UTME test
Shina Abubakar – Osogbo The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun state has disclosed that it online post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination test would now hold between Monday, March 15 to Friday 19, 2021. A statement issued by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Abiodun Olanrewaju on Tuesday disclosed that guidelines, dates and details […]
Quality education is key to Africa’s development – Aham Rochas
Founder and Managing Director of Aham Rochas Group of Companies, Aham Rochas, has stated that providing quality education is imperative to the development of Africa. He disclosed this at a media parley recently at the Aham Rochas Group headquarters in Abuja. According to Aham, there is no substitute for quality education. The dream for the […]
How beers and Vikings gave Bluetooth technology its name
One of the best-known modern technologies owes its name and logo to a Viking-era king with a bad tooth: a quarter century ago, two engineers hatched the idea for the moniker “Bluetooth” over beers. At the end of the 1990s, Sven Mattisson, a Swedish engineer working at telecom group Ericsson, and Jim Kardach, an American […]
From Kankara to Kagara, hypocrisy defines government
By Ikechukwu Amaechi ANYONE who watches the trending video of heavily armed bandits taunting Nigeria and its doddering leadership and emotionally assaulting passengers of the Niger State Transport Authority, NSTA, bus without feeling sorry for the country must be subhuman. The victims were abducted in the Yakila district of the Rafi Local Government Area of […]
Kaduna teaching hospital to set up in-vitro fertilisation unit
The Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital Kaduna, has concluded plans to set up In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) unit through a Public Private Partnership arrangement. Dr. Shu’aibu Musa, Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Kaduna. He said that already, the hospital had trained a consultant […]
