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Hauwa Adamu's favourite subjects are Chemistry and Biology. Notwithstanding that oil is the backbone of Nigeria's economy, the SS2 student of Government Secondary School, Jiwa, Abuja, said she knew nothing about how the country became one of its major producers in the world.
Lagos State government has commenced a comprehensive computer literacy programme involving teachers and counselors in all primary and secondary schools as part of its effort aimed at improving learning and teaching techniques.
All is set for this year's Lagos State Asoju Oba Table Tennis Championship sponsored by Chief Molade Okoya Thomas. The event will hold between Monday November 30 and Friday 4th December, 2009 at the Mobolaji Johnson Sports Centre, Rowe Park, Yaba Lagos.
Former World and Olympic champion in the women's 5000m and IAAF Athlete of the year in 2007,Ethiopia's Meseret Defar and president of World Mountain Running Association (WMRA), Bruno Gozzelino arrived Nigeria Tuesday evening for this weekend's fifth Obudu international mountain race and the first African mountain running championships.
The Sports Minister and Chairman National Sports Commission Sani Ndanusa said yesterday that he is ready to answer to his actions and decisions in the just concluded FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009.
Claims by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) that globacom Limited, the official sponsor of the national teams of Nigeria, has defaulted in the payment of the sponsorship fee for 2009, have been rejected by the telephony company.
The Lagos State Principal's Cup football competition will come on stream this year with enhanced incentives for the victorious school that will go home with the cash prize of N1 million. The tournament is to be sponsored by Guaranty Trust Bank. In the past, the tournament was the major platform in the sporting calendar of the state that illustrious ex-Nigerian international players like Adokiye ...
Albert Einstein said several years ago that the hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Ronald Reagan, one time President of the United States of America also underscored the importance of tax when he asserted succinctly "We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each ...
"The seat at the Government House, Awka, Anambra State is not hereditary and no winner is returned to it without an election duly conducted within the time frame as stipulated by the law it will be judicial slumber to grant an application of this nature.
The disagreement over the modus operandi for amending the 1999 Constitution was the first incident that exposed the underbelly of the Federal Legislature. The current face-off over the venue of the joint session to receive the 2010 budget proposal by President Umaru Yar'Adua is a further manifestation of the conflict between the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Death, from all intents and purposes, is meant to be final for the human soul. But for late Tasiu Umar Mashi, aka Tasi Elder, the controversial Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Mashi Local Government area of Katsina state, the controversy generated by his death in the office of Katsina State Commissioner of Police Danazumi Doma recently, is proving the above assumption wrong. As far as ...
About one and half years to the next general election, fear and apprehension have continued to grip both stakeholders and political enthusiasts on the possible output of the election.
At a recent dinner in Abuja the host, a senator, introduced me to the Speaker from one of the State Assemblies. He said: This is the Right Honourable , Speaker of the House of Assembly of We shook hands.
The previous warning by Chief Albert Horsefall that militants even after reformations still exhibit high level of restiveness that makes them susceptible to violent reaction, most times, without justification may have been taken with a pinch of the salt.
Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has urged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to the state to accept postings to various areas of primary assignment in good faith.
Director-General, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Prof. Osita Eze has described climate change and its bad effects as the most daunting challenges of the present world.
As a way of resolving the war of supremacy in the National Assembly over joint session on budget presentation, Senator Bode Olajumoke has advised the federal lawmakers to approach the Supreme Court rather than disgracing the country.
Former Nigerian envoy to Spain and one time national chairman of Alliance for Democracy (AD), Ambassador Mamman Yusuf and three others were yesterday arraigned before a High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over alleged misappropriation of N300million belonging to Aso Radio and Television, Abuja.
General Overseer of The Lord's Chosen Charismatic Revival Church, Pastor Lazarus Muoka has said no nation could record any meaningful development without God.
Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola advised journalists in the country to always endeavour to balance their stories in the course of discharging their duty as the watchdog of the society.
An Abuja High Court yesterday okayed charges of conspiracy and criminal breach of trust against the managing director of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation [NDIC], Ganiyu Ogunleye and five others over alleged scam in N166 million bank credits.
President Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday said the 2010 budget will focus on five critical sectors: Infrastructure, human capital development, land reform and food, security and the Niger Delta.
Sports Minister/Chairman National Sports Commission, Sani Ndanusa, said yesterday that he was ready to offer himself for probe for his activities during the just ended FIFA Under-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009.
SACKED Managing Director of Oceanic Bank Plc, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru, has filed a suit before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, challenging her removal as the Chief Executive of the bank by the Central Bank, CBN, accusing the Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido of plotting to sell Oceanic bank to his friends under the guise of core investors.
Sports Minister and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Engineer Sani Ndanus, has expressed fears that if nothing was done fast to reposition the Olympic Sports in the country Nigeria may not achieve the target of being one of the top 20 sporting nations of the world by the year 2020 even as he disclosed that the revised national sports policy as endorsed by the National Council on Sports was ...
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