Tinubu’s wife empowers 500 women in Ebonyi
By Jeff Agbodo, Abakaliki ABAKALIKI — Wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has distributed empowerment items to 500 indigent women in Ebonyi State to support them in starting new businesses or improving existing enterprises. The items included deep freezers, gas cookers with ovens, power generators and industrial grinding machines. Tinubu, who was represented by […]
IBB calls for power decentralisation
By Wole Mosadomi Minna — Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has called for the decentralisation of power from the central to other tiers of government in the country, saying the centre is overloaded with too much responsibilities thereby having too much to chew. Speaking at the 3rd Annual National Peace Day lecture organised […]
ASUU, students protest, seek public support
Niger Delta University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and students yesterday staged a peaceful rally in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, with an appeal to well meaning Nigerians to pressurize the Federal Government to sign and implement the re-negotiated agreement with the union to save the nation’s university system from total collapse.
Lawmaker makes case for Varsity of Petroleum, Effurun
FOR the University of Petroleum, Effurun, Delta State, to rise to contemporary challenges in the educational sector, the Federal Government has been urged to effectively fund the institution.
Sallah break: FEC meeting fails to hold
Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, who fielded questions from State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said due to the long holiday it was impossible for the cabinet office to prepare the relevant memos for the meeting.
Bayo Ohu for burial tomorrow
THE remains of the late Bayo Ayanlola Ohu, Assistant News Editor of The Guardian Newspapers who was assassinated in his Egbeda, Lagos residence on Sunday, September 20, will be buried tomorrow.
