PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been asked not to appoint former senate minority leader and Akwa Ibom State governor Senator Godswill Akpabio to a ministerial job because he will have a negative influence due to his past antecedents.
ABOUT 10 people were killed as a wedding ceremony in Imo State over the weekend when guests chocked to death from the fumes of a generators that was powering the home of one of the couples' parents.
In the first such tragedy of its kind, the incident happened at Umuomumu Mbieri in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State. Apparently, the guests had come from Anambra State and decided to pass the night at their in-law’s house after the ceremony when tragedy struck.
LAGOS Court of Appeal president judge Justice Mohammed Garba, has been appointed to replace Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa as the chairman of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal following her recent resignation over a conflict of interest.
NIGERIA'S Super Eagles have landed in the Egyptian city of Ismailia in readiness for the 32nd African Cup of Nations due to kick off on Friday June 21 where they are one of the favourites to win the tournament.
OYO and Abia states have both elected speakers to preside over the houses of assembly with both of them going for youth as 32-year old Adebo Ogundoyin was voted into office in Ibadan and former Governor Theodore Orji's son Chinedum was elected in Umuahia.
[1] Today, I want us to focus on the role of the Nigerian private sector and discuss its role in getting us out of our current economic nightmare. Too often, we shout government, government, government when sometimes, the issues at stake are not really a public sector matter. It is not the government that is going to come up with innovative ideas that will double our industrial output. A lot of the time, it is some whizzkid in his 20s
UNIVERSITY of Lagos pro-chancellor Dr Wale Babalakin has warned that Nigeria is churning out unemployable graduates as the country's best university is only ranked 800 in the world.
NIGERIAN-born Catholic priest Cyprian Duru has been suspended from ministering in the Diocese of Pittsburgh in the US after being accused of rape by 68 year-old retired English teacher Kathy Coll.
EMIR of Kano Alhaji Lamido Sanusi Mohammed has dismissed suggestions that he misappropriated N3.4bn ($9.4m) made available to him by the Kano State government pointing out that the total amount he met upon assuming office was N1.89bn.
SEVERAL civil society groups have filed a lawsuit at the federal high court in Lagos asking that the National Assembly Service Commission be prevented from paying its incoming members a bumper N4.68bn ($12.9m) welcome package.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been asked not to appoint former senate minority leader and Akwa Ibom State governor Senator Godswill Akpabio to a ministerial job because he will have a negative influence due to his past antecedents.
ABOUT 10 people were killed as a wedding ceremony in Imo State over the weekend when guests chocked to death from the fumes of a generators that was powering the home of one of the couples' parents.
LAGOS Court of Appeal president judge Justice Mohammed Garba, has been appointed to replace Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa as the chairman of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal following her recent resignation over a conflict of interest.
NIGERIA'S Super Eagles have landed in the Egyptian city of Ismailia in readiness for the 32nd African Cup of Nations due to kick off on Friday June 21 where they are one of the favourites to win the tournament.
OYO and Abia states have both elected speakers to preside over the houses of assembly with both of them going for youth as 32-year old Adebo Ogundoyin was voted into office in Ibadan and former Governor Theodore Orji's son Chinedum was elected in Umuahia.
UNIVERSITY of Lagos pro-chancellor Dr Wale Babalakin has warned that Nigeria is churning out unemployable graduates as the country's best university is only ranked 800 in the world.
NIGERIAN-born Catholic priest Cyprian Duru has been suspended from ministering in the Diocese of Pittsburgh in the US after being accused of rape by 68 year-old retired English teacher Kathy Coll.
EMIR of Kano Alhaji Lamido Sanusi Mohammed has dismissed suggestions that he misappropriated N3.4bn ($9.4m) made available to him by the Kano State government pointing out that the total amount he met upon assuming office was N1.89bn.
SEVERAL civil society groups have filed a lawsuit at the federal high court in Lagos asking that the National Assembly Service Commission be prevented from paying its incoming members a bumper N4.68bn ($12.9m) welcome package.
