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Records of most schools in Nigeria, either public or private, are kept manually, in paper form. With the passage of time, vital records and information are lost as the papers get defaced. This problem, coupled with the difficulty of wading through a mountain of paperwork often result in wrong performance analysis, inaccurate planning, and inefficient management of the schools.
THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has signed today the Long Range Identification Tracking System ( LRIT) Services Agreement with International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) in London UK.
Aluminium roofing sheets dealers have faulted the recent directive of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on standards of imported alumnium roofing sheet allowed for foreign exchange purchases.
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Malam Abdul Salam Mohammed has said that Automated System Custom's Data (ASYCUDA) should be adopted so as to realize an electronically driven Port operation system.
SHELL Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in the oil bearing areas of the Niger Delta has been charged to reject violence as an alternative to conflict resolution.
An aviation expert, Mr Gbenga Olowu has identified the aviation sector as one of the hardest hit by the global economic meltdown. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos, Olowu said that as the recession bites harder; air travel has shrunk, hitting airlines and airport
ABOUT 266 projects worth over N10.257 billion executed by the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) in different oil communities in Itsekiri, Ijaw, Isoko and Ndokwa ethnic nationalities in Delta State are to be commissioned between December 1 and 14.
Chevron Nigeria Limited has donated internet facilities to Bayelsa State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
SECRETARY, Western Zone Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Comrade Preye Okaba, has commended the chairman of Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Kelly Penawou, for his developmental initiative in the area.
The family of First Republic Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, has urged a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere to reverse the purported sale of the deceased's property to Dangote Nigeria Limited.
Skye Bank Plc and the British Council have gone into a strategic partnership in the area of human capital and manpower development with the objective of developing the skills and competences needed for nation building and economic empowerment.
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Mr Mike Igbokwe has advocated the formation of a Cabotage Task Force that will monitor the successful implementation of the Cabotage Act.
Resort Savings and Loans Plc has announced its plans to invest about N7 billion in the real estate segment of the Nigerian economy in the year 2010.
THE umbrella body for senior staff in the nation's financial sector, the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), has raised alarm over increasing retrenchments and unfair labour practices in the banking sector and warned against making workers scapegoats in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) induced clean-up exercise in the sector.
The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, said it had deployed over 12,000 policemen including undercover operatives to key areas in the state, with a view to ensuring that the Sallah celebration was devoid of violent crimes.
The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has called for better funding of the One Stop Investment Centre (OSIC) to attract more investment into the country. Mr Amos Sakaba, the Director of OSIC, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
A chieftain of the Action Congress (AC) in Delta State, Mr. Aluge-Obia Kainji has described as illegal the suspension of the Ika South Local Government Council Chairman, Mr. Hilary Ibude, by Delta State House of Assembly
The Lagos State Government has concluded arrangement to provide free bus service for the residents of the state during the Sallah festival aimed at making the festival smooth and stress-free.
It is clear that the problems brewing within the rank and file of the membership of the Tema West branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has not died down.
At long last, the local Junior High School (JHS) at Heman-Buoho, which is currently being run from a rented premises, is about to be relocated to a permanent place.
THE TWENEBOAH Koduah Senior High School at Kumawu, in the Sekyere Afram Plains district of the Ashanti Region, has launched a year long programme of activities to mark the 50th Anniversary of its founding.
Two aspiring youth organisers of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Messrs. Prince Armah and Aboagye Boateng, are at each others throat, fighting to win support among the youth in the party.
The close of polling yesterday has tapered the hullabaloo that dogged the Montserrado County Senatorial By-Election. Next - and as certainly as day follows night - is bound to be the anxious wait for the results and what observers and analysts make of the process.
Credible information received by this paper says there are serious differences between the Executive Mansion and some State officials involved in the awards of Forest Management Contracts (FMCS) over a suggestion that the Government of Liberia should loan US$2.7m each to the International Consultative Capital (ICC) and Euro-Logging to help pay their annual contract and bid fees as well as land ...
Liberty Party's first-round senatorial contender, Darius Dillon, has given early hats-off to run-off contender Geraldine Doe-Sherif of the CDC on her election as Senator of Montserrado County.
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