December 6, 2010

• Nigeria: Passion for Humanity Lured Me Into Rotary -Phillip Madojutimi [analysis]

  Recently, the Rotary Club of Apapa elected Phillip Madojutimi as its 38th president and equally inducted a new board of directors that would steer the affairs of the association... Read more »

• Nigeria: Calabar Gears up for Best of Carnivals

  Activities are reaching fever pitch in the mass camps, where participants for the parade of Africa's biggest street party get ready to put the spectacle on the road again. It is no... Read more »

• Nigeria: NAFDAC Destroys N7 Million Worth Of Contaminated Rice

  In her concerted effort to ensure that only wholesome foods and other regulated products are distributed and consumed in Nigeria, the National agency for Food and Drug... Read more »

• Nigeria: 'China, India, Others Now Haven for the Nation's Loot'

  Nigerian treasury looters have found new destinations for their loot: Persian Gulf, India and China. This revelation came from former United States Ambassador to Nigeria,... Read more »

• Nigeria: Work Begins On N30 Billion Road Project Today

  Minister of State for Works, Dr. Chris Ogiemwonyi weekend, said the Federal government has awarded contract making the Benin-Abraka Road a dual-carriageway, to the tune of 30... Read more »

• Nigeria: FG Awards N1.5 Billion Electricity Project

  Irked by the epileptic power situation in Ebonyi South senatorial zone, the Federal Government has awarded contract for the construction of the Abakaliki-Amasiri 132/33KV Double... Read more »

• Nigeria: Why There's Crisis in Niger Delta, By Amaechi

  Niger Delta nationalism is not about any desire to secede from the Nigerian federation, but about the quest for justice and equity within the Nigerian nation, Governor Rotimi... Read more »

• Nigeria: Nurtw Leaders, Police Officer Arrested Over Alleged Killings

  Police detectives from the Police headquarters, Abuja have arrested and detained the Chairman of Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), in Ekiti State, Mr. Rotimi... Read more »

• Nigeria: Policy Upturn on Textile Materials And Others [editorial]

  The lifting of ban on the importation of textile materials, furniture, cassava products and toothpicks, no doubt, has the capacity to affect the nation's social and economic life... Read more »

• Nigeria: FG Signs Crude-for-Product Deals With Importers

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has signed two deals exchanging crude for oil products with commodities trader Trafigura and Ivoirien refiner SIR. Read more »

• Nigeria: Boko Haram - Five Killed, Six Injured in Shoot-Out

  Borno State Police Command confirmed yesterday that five persons including two suspected Boko Haram gunmen were felled with six other persons sustaining injuries when the Police... Read more »

• Nigeria: Entrepreneurship Awards - Talabi Heads Panel

  President and CEO of Superflux International Limited, Mr. Tokunbo Talabi, has been appointed the Chairman of Panel of judges for the 2010 Legatum Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship... Read more »

• Nigeria: Court Dissolves State Electoral Commission

  An Osun State High Court at the weekend dissolved the State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC) and directed that its chairman, secretary and members should vacate office... Read more »

• Nigeria: Aregbesola Threatens Probe

  Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbeshola, has said that although he did not intend to probe his predecessor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, he would investigate all his administrations... Read more »

• Nigeria: Abiye - a Stroke Against Maternal Mortality

  Precisely on October 28, Folashade Oyesiji put to bed two months earlier than when she was supposed to normally deliver her baby. Yet Oyesiji did not lose her child; neither did... Read more »

• Nigeria: Jonathan - Reject Ethnic, Religious Jingoists

  The Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation has called on Nigerians to rise up against protagonists of ethnic, religious or zoning in the forth coming election in order to sustain the... Read more »

• Nigeria: IBB - I Stand by Consensus Arrangement

  Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, has restated that he will stand with the consensus arrangement that brought up former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar as the... Read more »

• Nigeria: Alaibe Joins Bayelsa Governorship Race

  Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Coordinator of the Federal Government's Amnesty programme for repentant militants in the region, Mr. Timi Alaibe, has... Read more »

• Nigeria: Polio - Govs' Forum Lauded

  The Executive Director and Chief Executive of National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Muhammed Ali Pate, has commended the Nigeria Governors' Forum, NGF for playing a... Read more »

• Nigeria: FRSC - $3 Billion Lost to Road Accidents Yearly

  A whopping sum of $3 billion (an equivalent of N450 billion) is lost to road accidents yearly in the country, a situation the Federal Road Service Commission (FRSC) decried at the... Read more »

• Nigeria: Experts Seek Review of Abortion Laws

  As part of the strategy to address issues concerning fertility and reproductive health care, the Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Nigeria (SOGON) has called for the review... Read more »

• Nigeria: 2011 - How Elections'll Be Rigged - Shekarau

  Kano State Governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has identified seven areas of electoral fraud in the country, saying they include manipulation of voter's registration by few selfish... Read more »

• Nigeria: Warri Wolves Topple Gombe

  The drama of the unfolding Nigeria Premier League continued yesterday with Warri Wolves shooting their way to the top of the log with 11 points from five matches. The Delta team... Read more »

• Nigeria: Courage Under Fire [opinion]

  Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Central Bank governor, must be everybody's man of the moment. Well, if we exclude the 469 excitable oddballs in the federal legislature and their... Read more »

• Nigeria: NSE DG - Three Candidates Emerge

  The long-awaited search for a substantive Chief Executive Officer for the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has drawn to a close as the recruitment panel saddled with such... Read more »