The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) will be signing on the trading system of the multinational financial services powerhouse, NASDAQ OMX System. This is part of plans to upgrade its current trading platform to the cutting-edge NASDAQ X-Stream - a high pe...
My feet — which normally only greet the insides of running shoes or stiff office brogues — are today being introduced to designer scrubs, pumice stones and ‘male polish’. Previously as unloved as the mismatched socks I put on th...
It’s overwhelming to discover that 9.5 million children in Nigeria especially in the North-West are Almajiris with no exposure to western education. In this exclusive, Kuni Tyessi challenges northern governors on the importance to make available,...
One critical area where the Federal Government is making slow but deliberate gains of recent is in developing the Non-Formal Education, NFE sub-sector to ensure that millions of Nigerians from all walks of life have access to sound functional education...
Three orphans of different orphanages in the FCT have been given scholarship up to university level by Youth Empowerment Education Initiative, a Non Governmental Organisation after winning a quiz competition which was organised by the group for student...
Worried by the current unpleasant academic posture of federal polytechnics and colleges of education in the country, the minister of education, Professor Rukayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, recently constituted a seven-man high powered panel to inspect, eval...
The 2005 World Health Report entitled “Make Every Mother And Child Count”, had outlined the major causes of maternal death as severe bleeding/haemorrhage representing 25%, infections 13%, unsafe abortions 13%, eclampsia 12%, obstructed labo...
All roads, last Saturday, led to the Yaba Fishing Lake in Abaji Area council in the FCT. It was the second edition of the FCT fishing competition in the Abuja gateway council and was expected to draw Nigerians and foreigners from all works of life. Ord...
Time Magazine has listed President Goodluck Jonathan as one of the 100 Most Influential Persons in the World. Jonathan is the only African leader named on the list which was published on Wednesday. The citation on Jonathan, written by the President of ...
To Honourable Ifedayo Abegunde, the Labour party in Ondo state is fast becoming history, even as the race for the State House, Alagbaka hots up. The House of Representatives member made this declaration while throwing his name in the ever increasing number of the aspirants for the Ondo state top job. Abegunde, popularly known as Abena to his supporters, said he…
An Ikeja Magistrates' Court on Wednesday fixed May 14 to begin the trial of 23 students of Police College charged with falsification of their educational qualifications. The students were first arraigned before the Magistrate, Mr Olufemi Isaacs, on...
The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) on Wednesday, in Abuja, inaugurated two standing committees and two ad hoc committees it said would be crucial to the rebuilding process of Nigerian football administration. The standing committees, which w...
The Nigerian Labour Congress has called on the government to address the social and labour issues that might ensued from the report of the Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies. The St...
Mr Joachim Olumba, the Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Immigration Service, says the organisation has repatriated more than 50 illegal immigrants in the last one week. Olumba,who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on We...
The Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to deploy all instruments of national power at its disposal to end the Boko Haram insurrection in the northern part of the country. The resolution followed a motion sponsored by Mohammed Saleh, (CPC-...