West Africa: EU Committed to Balanced Trade Agreement With Ecowas
The Head of the European Union, EU, delegation to Nigeria, David MacRae, has said that the organisation is committed to achieving an economic partnership and trade agreement, EPA, with the Economic...
View ArticleWild pubs: Taming Monalisa?
... can do to you, go there on Monday. It is the Oldies Night. The DJs have names like Vegas and Lagos. So you go to Nigeria and Lagos at the same time. Ehhhh! None of them is called Kampala, a reason...
View ArticleNigeria: Leadership Journalists Illegally Detained On President's Order
Four journalists with LEADERSHIP Newspapers have been detained at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, on the orders of President Goodluck Jonathan.
View ArticleNigeria detains 4 journos over story
... said. Media rights groups including the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists have previously criticised Nigeria for alleged crackdowns on press freedoms. In February, two journalists...
View ArticleSUMMIT-Will Nigerian boom babies feed prosperity or entrench poverty?
In the time it takes to read this article, Nigeria will have added 50 people to its population, or about 11,000 a day.
View ArticleNigerian Journalists Detained for Accusing President of Skulduggery
... the order had been directed at the government or at Jonathan's People's Democratic Party (PDP) or his campaign team. Nigeria's four main opposition movements announced a merger in February, posing...
View ArticleNigeria bullies Ghana in aviation market
The Ministry of Transport and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority have for the past one year battled without any success to get Nigerian authorities to allow Ghanaian domestic airline operators to ply...
View ArticleZanzibar president lauds IITA's research efforts to improve livelihoods of...
... Dr Sanginga also delivered an invitation to the President from Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria and IITA's goodwill ambassador, to the inauguration of IITA's science building in...
View ArticlePillars crumble as Leopards squeeze through
... snatch a place among the last 16 of the CAF Champions League. Written off after a 4-1 drubbing from Kano Pillars in Nigeria three weeks ago, Leopards converted a stoppage-time penalty at home to...
View ArticleNigeria: Militants Suspected in Police Killings in Niger Delta
The killing of twelve policemen in Nigeria has raised fears that insecurity in the Niger Delta region could be on the rise.
View ArticleAll Aboard Nigeria Railways
... March 12, 2011. (Akintunde Akinleye/Courtesy Reuters) The restoration of railway services between Lagos and Kano, Nigeria's two largest cities, is a highly positive development. This is a hopeful...
View ArticleNigerian journos held over reports
... are still being held by President Goodluck Joanthan's government," Azubuike Ishiekwene said over phone from Abuja. Nigeria's press is relatively free among West African nations. The country ranks...
View ArticleIPI protests the detention of Nigerian journalists
The International Press Institute today protested the continued detention of two Nigerian journalists who are reportedly being held by police because they refuse to disclose the source of a leaked...
View ArticleEnugu - Port Harcourt federal road goes bad 3 months after rehabilitation
BARELY three months after the busy Enugu-Okigwe-Umuahia-Port Harcourt federal road was rehabilitated under the supervision of FERMA, some portions of the road have gone bad again.
View ArticleResearch is key to agric production, food security - Abayomi Ojanuga
... on the role of soil scientists/researchers in food security and the need for more extension workers in the field if Nigeria's march towards self-sufficiency in food production must be realised....
View ArticleNUC: Nigerian varsities go paperless
... the processes of using the NUSMAP. Commenting on the relevance of the application, Executive Consultant, Gucci-Chis Nigeria Limited and facilitator, Honourable Paul Adingwupu said; "The...
View ArticleWhy UPN must be resuscitated - Fasehun
Founder of Oodua Peoples' Congress, OPC, and Chairman of the committee for the resuscitation of Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, Dr.
View ArticleNERDC saves N50m from curriculum printing through PPP
... are West African Book Publishers, University Press Plc, HEBN Publishers Plc, Africana Press Publishers, Macmillan Nigeria Publishers and NERDC Printing Press. Ozeigbe further said; "The project of...
View ArticleRivers PDP peaceful, Amaechi affirms
... Rivers people are known to be one. We have not been divided, that is why, as far as PDP elections are concerned in Nigeria, we don't disappoint the people. We thank you for your visit and hope that...
View ArticleSURE-P invests N572bn on infrastructure in 2012
The Federal Government Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P, has intervened in the various sectors of the economy with about N572billion in the one year of its operation.
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