Delta State Governor, Emmanuel EwetaUduaghan, yesterday presented a budget of N398.310 billion for 2013 fiscal year to the House of Assembly. The budget tagged “Delta beyond oil” has a capital expenditure of N252.370 billion or 63.3 per cen...
Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Prof. Chukwuma Soludo says oil has been a curse to Nigeria and that, with the exception of Lagos State, the other 35 are unviable. Soludo made the assertion while delivering the distinguished annual ...
The Osun State government has sent a bill to the House of Assembly, seeking stiffer penalties for rapists, including the cutting off of the penis. Mrs. Mofolake Adegboyega, Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, told newsmen yesterday in Os...
Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Professor Abdullahi Mustapha yesterday told the newly graduands of the institution to go out and create job opportunities rather than awaiting white-collar job The vice chancellor who s...
Aluu, a community in Rivers State, was in the news recently for the killing of four students of the University of Port Harcourt. Anayo onukwugha writes on the present situation in the town Although the community counts among its glitterati the famous ...
My parents are…my mum is super sweet, she is a housewife and is totally dedicated to her family. She is very funny and extremely caring. Dad is very quiet and very reserved; he is all about his family also. He loves joking with his children and ...
So many Nigerian poor families have the challenge of raising many children they have. ANIETIE UDOBIT takes a look at a young Nigerian girl who is going through the tragedy of life so as to survive. Amina is just 7years old but she has fought wars most ...
At conception, the family waited eagerly with joy for the full cycle to run. But from the day he was born 15 months ago, his parents and little Usman, have not slept with their two eyes closed, no thanks to chronic pains caused by a gaping hole in his ...
Senate President David Mark is to lead Federal Government’s delegation to the consecration of Archbishop John Onaiyekan as a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. The ceremony is to be performed by Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Saturda...
Journalists were on Friday barred from covering the swearing in of the acting President and a Justice of the Court of Appeal, Justices Zainab Bulkachuwa and Ifeoma Jombo-Ofo respectively. The event, which took place in one of the chambers of the Suprem...
Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara on Friday promised to complete the N40 billion road projects embarked upon by his administration before the end of his four-year tenure in May 2015. Yari made the promise in Magami village in Maru Loca...
The Kaduna State Government on Friday announced the cancellation of Saturday’s environmental sanitation exercise in the state, to enable participants to attend the 50th anniversary of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The Commissioner for Environme...
The United States Department of State, Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund Project, is to hold a two-day stakeholders’ workshop on alternative ways of cleaning oil spills in the Niger Delta. A statement by the Team Leader, Dr Morufat Balogun and Dr...
The Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, on Friday called on past military leaders to “step aside” and allow the country to move forward. He gave advice in Abuja at a dinner orga...
The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) says it has concluded arrangments to establish seven additional distribution stations in the north-west zone. Alhaji Muhammad Balogun, the Managing Director, Kano Electricity Distribution Company, said&n...