Make good use of the pineapple this season by preparing pineapple juice. Pineapple Juice is extracted from fresh pineapples. It is sold unsweetened and sweetened in cans or bottles and as frozen concentrate. Pineapple juice contains Vitamins and minera...
Avocados are also called alligator pears because of their shape and wrinkled green skin. There are different varieties of avocado pear in the market but the commonest type is that with a greenish skin. Eating a slice of avocado with each plate of...
Barely a week after the gruesome murder of over 40 people including some students of the Federal Polytechnic, School of Health Technology and Adamawa State University (ADSU), all of Mubi, Adamawa State in North East Nigeria, PEMBI STEPHEN-DAVID, who wa...
Nigeria as a sovereign state has passed through series of social transformation since its independence 52 years ago. UCHE UDUMA, MICHEAL OCHE and KEHINDE AJOBIWE take a look at Nigeria’s social transformation within this period. Nigeria had her i...
A Septuagenarian, Professor Ango Abdullahi is a former Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University; he is the current spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum. In this interview with MIDAT JOSEPH, Professor Ango who was only 22 when Nigeria gained Ind...
Recently, the minister of aviation, Stella Oduah proposed the setting up of cities (Aerotropolis) in some airports in the country. But as a typical federal government project, this noble proposal seems to have been abandoned as not much is being heard ...
A federal government delegation headed by Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, the Speaker, House of Representatives, is to leave for Saudi Arabia today in connection with the deportation of Nigerian female intending pilgrims. Sources at the office of the speaker told...
The Kaduna State government yesterday honoured its illustrious sons and daughters who are appointees of the Federal Government. Those honoured were the Minister of Environment, HajiyaHadizaMailafia, Supreme Court, Justice Kumai Akaahs, the Group Managi...
Three armed robbery suspects including a youth corps member (names withheld) serving in Kwara state have been arrested by men of Kwara State Police Command over an alleged armed robbery incident. The Kwara state coordinator of NYSC, Mrs. Ezinne Ezekwe ...
The Federal Government has said it is working out a special flood recovery food production plan to grow more food through irrigation in the forthcoming dry season to minimise the effect of crop losses caused by the recent flooding that destroyed farms ...
Nine persons, including an infant, died on Saturday morning in a fatal accident on Abeokuta-Sagamu expressway in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun. Mr Ayobami Omiyale, the Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun Command, told newsme...
Ogun State Government and Muslim chiefs in Abeokuta organised a prayer session on Saturday to mark the eighth day prayer for the late AbduLateef Adegbite. Adegbite, who, until his death, was the Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Isl...
UNESCO has urged ECOWAS member states to focus on the welfare of teachers in order to ensure effective achievement of Education for All (EFA) Goals by 2015. Mrs Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta, Director, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Africa, made the...
Some residents of Lagos on Saturday in Lagos expressed concern over the increasing rate of accommodation fraud in the state. The residents, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), urged the state government to check the situation as the rate a...
Retired Col. David Dungs, DPP candidate in the Plateau North senatorial by-election, has advised INEC to make sure that all unused election materials are returned intact. ``It is the only way to avoid massive thump-printing of ballot papers that were n...