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The Lagos State House of Assembly has recommended the reopening of the crisis-ridden Lagos State University (LASU), for academic activities within a week from today pending the decision of the visitation panel's investigation.
A 76 year-old woman has been kidnapped at Ibusa, Delta State, even as kidnappers of the Oceanic Bank manager have dropped their ransom from N110 million to half a million naira.
THE Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said from December 1, it would clampdown on commercial vehicles plying intercity routes without passengers' manifest.
THE Naval Training Command (NAVTRAC) has said it is stepping up its training strategies to meet with the operational dynamics of the time.
Worried by the declining use of indigenous languages, especially the Yoruba, D.O Fagunwa Foundation, has announced its commitment to promote the use of indigenous languages in schools in line with the National Policy on Education, especially in the South West.
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday asked the National Chairman of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, to assert his authority and ensure discipline among its members, especially ahead of the 2011 general election.
WITH the judgment in the suit instituted by Dr. Andy Uba, now delivered, the coast is clear for 25 governorship candidates of different political parties vying for the February 6, 2010 election to move into the field.
The alleged presidential ambition of the Kaduna State governor, Mohammed Namadi Sambo may have pitched him against President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. Government activities at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, seat of the state government have virtually come to a halt since penultimate Monday when newspaper reports said that Sambo may succeed Yar'Adua in 2011.
MR. Emeka Nwokeke is a driver with Chisco, a popular transport company that has buses plying different parts of the country. Emeka left Lagos about 7p.m. penultimate Friday en route Port-Harcourt.
It was a champagne party for Pillar of Sports, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, following Nigeria's grouping alongside Egypt in Angola 2010 Nations Cup.
The Nigeria-Ghana rivalry was rekindled at the weekend in Lagos when the Accra Tennis Club visited Ikoyi Club 1938 Tennis section for the 2009 Nigeria-Ghana International Tennis Tournament.
Nigeria's Green Eagles have been valued at N1 billion by the Nigeria Football Federation as the Glass House seeks to renegotiate their sponsorship deal for the senior national team.
Mr. Frank Nneji is the managing director of ABC Transport Plc. He recently withdrew his luxury bus from plying some parts of the country, citing the poor state of roads in the affected areas. In this interview, Mr. Nneji calls for increased funding for the road sector.
The people of Owerri Municipality have expressed displeasure over what they called "the marginalisation of the area in the creation of local government development areas, since the inception of the current democratic dispensation."
Eid El-Kabir is the festival that marks the end of Hajj, the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, one of the five pillars of Islam.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Dimeji Bankole has charged the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS) to sanction corrupt leaders within the sub-region.
Gunjur nearly pulled off another big upset in the annual Muhammed Yahya Jammeh Zonal Championship when they pushed star-studded Bakau all the way on Saturday afternoon in the Group A opener at Serrekunda East mini-stadium.
When key National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) executives met recently to endorse Mrs. Geraldine Doe Sherif, what they did not announce at the press conference was that she is in fact one of them, an insider member.
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife Dame Patience Jonathan, will between December 4 and 6 play host to the National Association of Ijaw Female Students (NAIFS) whose bi-annual convention is billed for Abuja within the period.
The National Chairman of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief Edwin Ume Ezeoke, has attributed the crisis rocking the PDP dominated federal legislative chambers as an indication that the ruling party has failed the country.
THE new Digital Mapping of Enugu State, which would capture and show all the physical features, topography and landscape of the state is to cost the state government N467 million.
The Nasarawa State Government has condemned the standard of accommodation secured for its pilgrims in Mecca by the National Hajj Commission (NAHCOM), saying the area lacks proper sanitation.
Portions of a law suit against the divestiture of Ghana Telecom (GT) have been referred to the Supreme Court for hearing.
Air Namibia-Ghana, has commenced direct flights from Accra to Johannesburg, South Africa and Windhoek, Namibia .
Security expert Dr. Emmanuel Aning has called for parliamentary inquiry into allegations of maltreatment meted out to two Bawku residents accused of firing indiscriminately into the air.
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