Ekhomu urges JTF to intensify hunt for hidden weapons
... to carry out attacks in the country. This is just as he attributed what he described as extremely porous nature of Nigeria's land, air and sea borders as means through which dangerous weapons were...
View ArticleLocal, foreign investors create N912.4bn worth of new investments in Nigeria
... economy in the last few years, data tracked by Financial Vanguard has revealed. The new investments came from Nestle Nigeria Plc, Dangote Cement Plc, Lafarge WAPCO Cement Plc; Western Metal...
View ArticleAmaechi's rebel war
By Ochereome Nnanna WHAT started like a rumour is now a confirmed conflict. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Governor of Rivers State and President of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, who hails from...
View Article103, 080 Nigerian children live on anti-viral drugs - UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has disclosed that over 103,080 Nigeria children require and live on anti-retroviral drugs to stay alive as a result of their HIV status.
View ArticleI love working with children - Otobong Ebe
... major passions - tourism, education and sports," but he chose education above others because "on coming back to Nigeria, I had not intended to go into education immediately but there was a need....
View ArticleSale of NIPPs: FG to reinvest proceeds in power sector
... to kick off in Lagos, on June 4 and 5, 2013, the government would be wooing both local and foreign investors in Nigeria, London, Hong Kong and New York. He noted that the road show was designed to...
View ArticleFixed cargo scanner at Seme border ready for operation
The fixed scanner at Seme border built at the cost of N3.54 billion has been installed and tested by the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority for full scale operation.
View ArticleThe perils of 'Area Boy Diplomacy'
I NOTED with interest the response from Amedu Ogbole Ode, the spokesperson in the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to my article 'Decline of Nigeria's Foreign Policy' . It was Gabriel Olusanya, the...
View ArticleAfrican business women seek higher leadership role in banks
NIGERIAN banks and corporate organisations have been advised to increase the number of women in economic leadership by promoting qualified women to fill 30 per cent of bank board seats and 40 per cent...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda affiliate assassinates Christian church leader in Nigeria
Members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Boko Haram allegedly assassinated a Christian leader on Tuesday in Nigeria's northeast Borno State, according to an Israeli police intelligence analyst who monitors...
View ArticleExhibition of photographic works by ten Nigerian artists opens at Skoto Gallery
... the New York audience 'new directions in contemporary photography' by a crop of modern generation photographers from Nigeria is apt considering how identities are constructed. However, this...
View ArticleHow kidnap kingpin, Kelvin, tricked Delta police boss
THE most wanted kidnap kingpin in Delta State, Kelvin, suspected to be a drug addict, ambushed and killed three officials of the Nigeria Prisons Service, NPS, Warri, with his gang, 48 hours after he...
View ArticleNigeria: Towards Sanity in the Airports
The decision of the federal government to rehabilitate and, in some cases, expand airports is commendable.
View ArticleNigeria: Boko Haram Pardon - 23 Women, 35 Kids Freed
In neigbouring Yobe State, about the same time, the Join Task Force yesterday also released 38 Boko Haram suspects detained under its custody in compliance with the directives of the Defense Headquarters.
View ArticleHow Africa can feed the world
... to absorb existing biotechnologies and use them to solve local problems. Two examples underscore this point. In Nigeria scientists have developed a pest-resistant variety of the blackeyed pea, a...
View ArticleE. K. Clark and the season of wolves
... and/or Goodluck Jonathan) has greatly eroded the initial positive view of his emerging persona as palpably Pan-Nigeria or overtly altruistic. To many, Chief E. K. Clark has battered and trivialised...
View ArticleI Wanted To Be A Movie Star
... of both languages. Eventually in 1990, I went to the University of Ife for a short while to study Psychology, but Nigeria was in a terrible state then; universities were on strike and all that. So...
View ArticleChristian Science church to have first president from Africa
... - the first African to hold the post. The new president of the Christian Science church is Bosede Bakarey of Ibadan, Nigeria, the first African to be appointed to a post that typically involves...
View ArticleDPO fingered in alleged Uniben student's murder
VEHICULAR movement was disrupted, yesterday, in parts of Benin City following a protest by students of the University of Benin over alleged shooting to death of late Momodu Ibrahim, a 22-year-old 500...
View ArticleCJN blames corruption on obsolete, alien laws
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mariam Aloma Muhktar, yesterday blamed the corruption that had bedeviled Nigeria for the past 100 years on archaic, obsolete and alien laws which were no...
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