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WHEN questioned why they gamble with the life-endangering driving against the traffic on the ever-busy expressway, many of the motorists were quick to attribute their action to “total stand still” traffic from Second Rainbow to Berger and beyond, resulting in a drastically reduced number of trips per day for them.
Read More What is painful in my case is that some people came to meet me in this ministry and now are fully employed. Jobs are not easy to come by these days and I just have to continue to be patient, hoping that one day, God will remember me and it will be my turn
Read More IT has been an anxious and indeed painful wait for the release of Leah Sharibu who is one of the 110 students abducted from Government Girls Technical Science College, Dapchi, Yobe State by the Al Barnawi faction of Boko Haram on February 19, 2018.
Read More Sources said that the Office of the Head of Service and Civil Service Commission had, on several occasions, raised concerns over the upsurge of contract staff
Read More Having enjoyed the privilege of spending eight years in the Edo State House of Assembly during which I was the leader of the house for some eon; and, thereafter, a member of the House of Representatives in Abuja for four years, I can asseverate, without being accused of any streak of immodesty, that I am sufficiently versed and knowledgeably vast in the mechanism of the legislature as a third arm of the trinity of government both at the state and federal levels.
Read More Umueri President General, Pius Okonkwo, in an interview, told Sunday Vanguard that his community was not the aggressor in the communal crisis
Read More Many months after the Nigerian Government directed its embassy in Riyadh to intervene and stop further execution of Nigerians on death row over suspected drug offences, the officials have not succeeded, leading to the killing of no fewer than six persons within six months.
Read More My first words must be about the man in whose memory this occasion has been organized, the late statesman Senator Abraham Aderibigbe Adesanya. It is now ten years since he left us to join his God and ancestors. I thank the Planning Committee of this event for the honour of the invitation to be the Guest Speaker.
Read More MOTORISTS plying the Mile Two to Tin Can Island end of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway have since last week enjoyed some relative respite from the traffic jam that has locked down the area for several weeks, thanks to the intervention of the Nigerian Navy and other security agencies.
Read More NIGERIANS are inundated from time to time by media reports of impending electricity tariff review to the extent that the National Assembly has had cause to invite the Minister of Works, Housing and Power to defend the purported move. Periodic tariff review is an essential part of the Electric Power Sector Reform Act 2005 which empowers the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to determine tariffs for the principal players in the sector.
Read More Because I couldn’t afford school fees, I stayed four years after primary school, hawking before I could enter secondary school
Read More As people inhale it, after a time, it becomes an irritant. The individual starts coughing. After persistent cough, a wound is created inside the lungs
Read More I would like to thank the London School of Economics and Political Science for hosting me once again, and in particular my friend Professor Ricky Burdett, not only for inviting me, but also for the flexibility he demonstrated with his scheduling of this event to accommodate me.
Read More Imagine being handcuffed by the police like a hardened criminal and taken into detention for several hours for treating a patient in a medical facility where you work as a doctor! Your only ‘offence’ against the law enforcement agents is that you attended to a patient! This was the case of some medical doctors at Zankli Hospital Abuja last Tuesday, April 24,2018.
Read More Education, the globe over, is regarded as the key that unlocks the potentials of the individual so as to contribute his quota to the development of his environment. That is why most developed nations place the highest premium on the availability of education to its citizenry. And this point was driven home last week when the commissioners in the educational forte gave account of their stewardship. The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Honourable Chiedu Ebie and the Commissioner for Higher Education Engineer Jude Sinebe were at the Ministry of Information headquarters, Asaba and in interactive sessions with reporters, gave a good account of their stewardship. The undercurrent theme in both commissioners‘ press briefing was the uncommon passion of the Okowa administration to take the educational fortunes of Deltans a notch higher.
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