WIBP to generate 100,000 jobs by 2020
... thousand jobs in the country, especially in Delta State. Project Director WIBP Ms. Helen Emore said this during the Nigeria-South Africa Chamber of Commerce (N-SACC) breakfast meeting held in...
View ArticleFormer President Rawlings honoured in Congo
... President, copied to the Ghana News Agency on Sunday. It said former President Rawlings and former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, were presented with Honorary Diplomas by Congolese...
View ArticleHomestrings helps diasporans invest back home
... in our catalogue, including the Government of Kenya, First Quantum Minerals, Republic of Ghana, Federal Republic of Nigeria, and Afren plc. I would also count the development of our extensive...
View ArticleMimiko assumes 2nd term, promises better quality of life
... Kumuyi, at 1.05p.m. and 12.40p.m. respectively. Yesterday's ceremony was witnessed by two Action Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Ibikunle Amosu of Ogun...
View ArticleFG reiterates commitment to revamping key sector of economy
Federal Government says President Goodluck Jonathan is working assiduously to revamp the key sectors of the economy in strategic ways to return the country to the path of development and sustainable...
View ArticleJonathan, Rousseff of Brazil back UN Security Council reform
... changes in the international architecture. Both leaders made the call in Abuja when Rousseff paid a State visit to Nigeria at the invitation of the Nigerian President. In a joint communiquA issued...
View ArticleNITEL's facilities rot away, govt dithers on liquidation
... facilities is coming on the heels of increased mobile telephone penetration in the country. As at December 2012, Nigeria can confidently boast of 113 million active mobile subscribers, with over...
View ArticlePandemonium in Kaduna over attack scare
THERE was pandemonium again in Kaduna Sunday when hundreds of residents in the metropolis scampered for safety following the rumour of crisis in Sabo, a suburb of the southern axis of the town, at...
View ArticleAnglicans warn against gay marriage
PRIMATE of Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh, Sunday called on Nigerians especially Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion not to embrace the culture of gay marriage now...
View ArticlePIB: TUC flays powers conferred on President, Petroleum Minister
Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, weekend, condemned what it described as the excessive powers conferred on the President and Minister of Petroleum in the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, and...
View Article60 Army officers quizzed over exam malpratices
ABOUT 60 officers of the Nigerian Army are currently being interrogated for allegedly cheating during the just concluded promotion examination held at the 1st Mechanised Division, Kaduna.
View ArticleTambuwal, policeman steal show at Sun Newspaper Awards
... that is the real path to nation-building and nation development. " "I therefore call on all Nigerians, like the Sun Nigeria Newspaper to rise to the occasion and while yesterday is the time, today...
View ArticleHurricane Mukthar: 3 judges to go
... Vanguard learnt from sources that NJC was being propelled by the zero tolerance disposition of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Aloma Mukthar, to rid the judiciary of corrupt judges and officials to...
View ArticleSeven Customs officers perish in road mishap
SEVEN officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, attached to PTML, TinCan and Seme Border Commands, have been killed in a road accident at Sagamu in Ogun State on their way to NCS Headquarters in...
View ArticleMarket Making: Liquidity must be provided according to principles - SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission has responded to calls for provision of liquidity to support market making, saying that such liquidity must be provided according to principles.
View ArticleAMCON, Bi-Courtney, who is fooling Nigerians?
Last week, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, came out with a statement that it is working out an out of court settlement between it and Babalakin, whom the corporation had accused of...
View ArticleKarami convoy attacker back in custody after daring hospital escape
A burning car, which was part of Lebanese Minister of Sports and Youth Faisal Karami's convoy, is seen after it was ambushed by gunmen in the northern city of Tripoli January 18, 2013.
View ArticleArinze Kene: 'At home, I'm Nigerian. I go out and I'm a British kid'
... are being ignored. He points to his own family: they have lived in east London since his parents emigrated from Nigeria, yet none of his siblings has ever been involved in violent crime; two of...
View ArticleVideo claims sect holds French hostages
First Alert Weather Alert: Flood Warning expires at 10:29 AM on 3/4, issued at 10:29 AM Hoboken, GA First Alert Weather Alert: Flood Warning expires at 9:46 PM on 3/2, issued at 9:46 PM Brunswick, GA...
View ArticleNNPC to support Kanu Heart Foundation
... that the Foundation, which had so far conducted 452 successful heart operations, was planning to build a hospital in Nigeria so as to be able to do the operations in-country. He however said that...
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