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THIS week I pay tribute to the memory of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1987), poet, scholar, journalist, and statesman; one of the great leaders of Africa's anti-colonial and independence movement in the 20th century. He was also founding president of Nigeria. Dr. Azikiwe would have been 105 years last Monday, November 16.
Dogs don't eat dogs, but, the reverse is precisely what exmilitants are doing with their colleagues of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) who insisted that the Federal Government should discuss with the Aaron team constituted by the militant group for things to move forward in the Niger-Delta.
AT the national secretariat of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), one can access documents detailing the history of the union's activities, particularly with regard to its attempts through strike actions to compel unwilling governments to enhance the welfare packages of lecturers and improve the funding for university education.
Two executives of the Australian banknote making firm, said to have paid bribe to win printing offer from a Nigerian, have been suspended over a police probe into alleged bribery and kickbacks, officials said.
FORMER chairman of the EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, reacted yesterday to a court ruling declaring him wanted and said, "there is no substance to this case."
THE proposed constitution amendment and electoral reforms are the immediate victims of the current face-off between the Senate and the House of Representatives over supremacy.
Police in Nasarawa State have nabbed a syndicate which specializes in cloning Automated Teller Machines (ATM) cards to withdraw money from the bank accounts of unsuspecting persons.
Super Eagles forward, Chinedu Ogbuke Obasi continued with his impressive form in the German Bundesliga this season, as he grabbed a goal for his side, TSG Hoffenheim in their 4-0 drubbing of FC Cologne in a week 13 clash.
The non payment of 17 months salaries to staff of ailing Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and its mobile arm, MTEL by their former owners, Transcorp and now government is causing disquiet among the two firms' staff members.
A Bill for an Act to provide for the repeal of the Nigerian Press Council Act, 1992 and Establish the Nigerian Press and Practice of Journalism Council to promote high professional standards for the Nigerian press and deal with complaints emanating from members of the public about the conduct of journalists and media houses in their professional capacity, or complaints emanating from the press ...
Barely five days to the Eid-el-Kabir festival, some Muslims in Lagos are saying the prices of rams have gone beyond their reach. Some of the Muslims, who spoke with newsmen on Sunday in Lagos, said the situation had forced them to buy goats and chicken.
Some female foreigners who were promised marriage by a 23 year old Nigerian posing as Jerry Finger, a British expatriate have been allegedly defrauded of over $96,000 via internet scam.
CCECC, the Chinese construction firm handling the provision of roads in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, and its sub-contractors, are yet to return to site, more than two weeks after the end of October which the government promised as deadline for work to pick up.
A pressure group known as Unity Forum has called on the National Assembly to make laws that will prescribe the severest penalties for perpetrators of kidnappings and ritual killings in Nigeria.
Hassan Saleh is the out- going Director of the Custom, Immigration and Prison Pension Office (CIPO). In this interview, he said that government released a supplementary budget of N8.7 billion to pay the pensioners. He also said that since he assumes office January 17, 2008, pensioners now get paid on or before 25th of every month.
The mandate of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) is to coordinate and monitor how the various sectors are contributing to poverty eradication in the country, its National Coordinator has said.
A large number of people, mostly woman, Saturday attended a skills acquisition workshop organized by Hands and Skills Initiative at Redeem Christian Church of God at Nyanya, Abuja.
The Ogun Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday said its operatives intercepted a tanker carrying weeds suspected to be cannabis.
The Abuja Muslim Forum (AMF) Friday began a three-day economic empowerment workshop for Muslims at Kado Estate Jumu'at Mosque in Abuja.
The police recently arraigned three persons before an Abuja magistrate court for allegedly withdrawing N4.8 million from the bank account of one Dr. Bello Ghali.
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) operated Joint Venture said it produced a total of 512 million standard cubic feet of gas (MMscf/d) in western Niger Delta last week.
True to expectation, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) fulfilled the public expectation of its advertised promise to consider options for more internally generated revenues (IGRS) at a work shop last week in Abuja.
A 17-year-old Nigerian girl and three other pilgrims died of swine flu soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia, Saudi health officials said yesterday while announcing the first deaths from swine flu in this year's hajj.
The European Commission has signed a multi-million euro agreement to assist Nigeria tackle development challenges in the areas of governance, trade and peace.
Following my recent but honest assessment of governance more especially at local and state levels where I stated that qualified and experienced people should be elected into state assemblies to enhance grassroots development by checking the excesses of governors who are acting like emperors, I have been humbled by the avalanche of responses, some complementary and some very critical, from several ...
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