*As nine others grab  Nigeria Prize for Literature By Akoma Chinweoke PROFESSOR Andrew Jonathan Nok has won this year’s edition of the Nigeria LNG Limited sponsored Prize for Science from the list of 26 applications, for his seminal work in discovering the gene responsible for the creation of sialidase (SD), an enzyme which causes sleeping […]

By Wole  Mosadomi Minna – A  Combined team of police, immigration and prison officers in Niger State yesterday dislodged about 3,500 Islamic fundamentalists from their camp on the Bokani-Mokwa road. The dislodged men are members of Daru Salam led by a Sudanese, Bashir Abdullahi. The police, citing security reports on activities of the sect, moved […]

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, reacting to the comment of the United States secretary of state, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, that the anti-graft agency has fallen off, says she was misinformed. The EFCC in a statement in Abuja, said the impression created by Mrs Clinton’s statement that the Commission had not done much in […]

By Jimitota Onoyume Port Harcourt – GOVERNOR Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has said he was ready to receive any genuine repentant militant in the state that was set to surrender his arms. The governor, who stated this in an interview with newsmen in Omoku, said the decision of the state government to receive genuinely […]

*11 other banks under CBN scrutiny By Gabriel Omoh & Peter Egwuatu MORE bank chief executive officers may be sacked by the Central Bank (CBN), if the ongoing examination of  books of 11 banks by the apex financial institution and the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) finds them wanting. Five managing directors were dropped on […]