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The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for the present crop of candidates is about five months away, but school authourities are worried about whether Religious and Moral Education (RME) will be on offer for the examinations. This is because the major stakeholders in the organisation of the BECE, are already sending conflicting signals about the eligibility of RME as an examinable ...
Seasoned sports administrator and commentator, Chuka Momah has come out to throw his weight behind the candidacy of Engr. Sani Ndanusa as president of Nigeria Olympic Committee. In view of this, he has come out to correct the falsehood and lies being speculated by Engr. Sani Ndanusa's opponents in the race for the presidency of NOC. He stated emphatically that Ndanusa was duly elected ...
Meanwhile, more reputable Nigerians and respected sports stakeholders are coming out to support the ambition of Engr. Sani Ndanusa to vie for the presidency of the Nigeria Olympic Committee as the battle for the presidency of the body gathers momentum.
Global e-payment experts who converged at the second E-Payment Providers Association of Nigeria 's Techno-Interactive Conference in Lagos recently, agreed among other issues that the Nigeria Central Switch (NCS) should not be a profit-oriented concern.
As President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua lays separately the 2010 budget proposals before the two chambers of the National Assembly today, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has asked Nigerians to blame the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for instigating the crisis between members of the two chambers.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has given bank debtors a two-week ultimatum to pay up their debts or face prosecution.
For former chairman of the board of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Chief Bode George, it is certainly not the best of times, even in prison over monumental corruption at the NPA; the Senate yesterday added salt to injury when he was named among Nigerians who bought government houses allegedly without following the due process.
The Chairman of the Board of UnityKapital Assurance Company and Managing Director/CEO of Unity Bank of Nigeria Plc, Mallam Falalu Bello, yesterday dropped the hint that the company would get 16 per cent share of the ownership of Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, in due course.
Fitch has downgraded First Bank of Nigeria Plc's Individual Rating to 'D/E' from 'D'. The agency has simultaneously affirmed the bank's Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of 'B+', Short-term IDR of 'B', Support Rating of '4' and Support Rating Floor of 'B+'. The outlook on the long-term IDR remains stable. Fitch has also affirmed FBN's national long and short-term ratings of 'A+(nga)' and ...
Super Eagles defender, Danny Shittu has said he is making progress to recover early ahead the commencement of the Nations Cup in Angola next year. Shittu is down with the injury which kept him out of the Super Eagles decisive World Cup qualifying game against Kenya.
The technical adviser of Kaduna United, Maurice Coorman, has described his team's match against Kwara United at home as a disaster. Kaduna United which Coorman coaches lost the game to the visiting team 1-2 on Sunday at the Kaduna Township Stadium.
Over 85 former members of the House of Representatives who served between 2003 and 2007 have handed down a 30-day ultimatum to Speaker Dimeji Bankole to offset their N382.5 million unpaid salaries and allowances or be ready to meet them in court.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has identified the Ogun State axis as the major route through which illicit drugs are smuggled into Lagos and other surrounding states.
The various strategies to eliminate corruption from the public service must be sustained for the development of the country.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC's) sussested death penalty for corrupt public officers has also been welcome in the anti-graft fight.
An Abuja Magistrate Court yesterday discharged Chief Kenny Martins and three others of a charge of conspiracy and forgery against them which emanated from the Corporate Affairs Commission sometime in October 2009.
Worried by the recent attacks on corps members in some states of the federation, President Umar Musa Yar'Adua has ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, to provide a twenty-four-hour police protection for corps members nationwide.
Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, at the weekend commended the governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for his courageous steps to ensure that the people of the state embraced his new tax policy, describing it as "distintively perculiar".
Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ojo Maduekwe, has said that it was high time all ECOWAS states proved they could tackle the obtacles to the free movement of persons and goods within the region.
The sorry state of roads in the South East has drawn the ire of a youth organisation known as Odimma Ndigbo Youth Movement which has given the Federal Government up till the first quarter of next year to fix all the dilapidated federal roads in the zone or face the wrath of the people.
A former Commissioner of Police for the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Lawrence Alobi, has made case for the Nigeria Police to adopt a democratic method of policing.
DESPITE THE challenges of the economy, the Otuasekan Rural bank has with the prudent measures put in place by the Board and management, made a profit before tax increase of 65% of GH¢217,945.91 in 2008, against GH¢131,309.42 in 2007.
MICROFINANCE AND Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) has interacted with small scale entrepreneurs and the general public to educate them on how to acquire small scale loans to set up their businesses.
THE LOCAL branch of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) at the Kumasi Polytechnic has called for the immediate dismissal of the rector of the school, Dr. B. E. K. Prah, for financial malfeasance and gross abuse of power.
The ongoing construction of the Achimota lorry terminal in Accra has almost been completed, and the place will be opened next month.
The Acting Executive Director of Central Regional Development Commission (CEDCOM), Mr. Spencer Taylor has stated categorically that his outfit was gearing up to promote first class tourism in the region, as one of the tools to reduce poverty.
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