A former deputy Vice chancellor of the Enugu-campus of the University of Nigeria,(UNN), Prof. Sam Ohaegbulam, has called for the declaration of a state of emergency in the health sector. He said that it was an international embarrassm...
A one day meeting of governors and political leaders in the South East ended in Enugu yesterday without a communique. But the chairman of the South East Governors Forum, Governor Peter Obi told reporters who besieged Enugu Government House ...
The Chairman of Ram Sellers Association in Kaduna, Musa Abdullahi, yesterday counted his members’ losses as over 10 rams were stolen from various animal sheds in the metropolis in the wake of the celebration of the Eid-el- Kabir. He t...
The Lagos State House of Assembly is set to constitute new committees and reduce their numbers when it resumes from the Eid-EL-Kabir holidays on Wednesday the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A lawmaker, who would not want to be named, told ...
The increasing rate of failed marriages among artistes in Nigeria has become a source of worry to many. In this write up, AJIBADE ALABI examines the issue. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and everything in it, including ma...
The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, yesterday decried the rising wave of abuse of expectorants and cough syrups as stimulants, just as he pleaded with those who engage in the ...
History was made few days ago when President Goodluck Jonathan named the African foremost business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the winner of the prestigious second highest Nigerian national honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON). B...
AKANIMO SAMPSON in this piece, examines the politics that led to the withdrawal of Dr. Abiye Sekibo’s petition against the election of Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi. What informed the withdrawal the petition written by Dr. Abiye Seki...
Former of Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu in this article, x-rays the controversial Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) and concludes that the concept is against the principle of federalism. Nigeria struggles to become a nation governed by ...
Nigerians were stunned last week when the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Senator Ehigie Uzamere disclosed that Nigeria’s total debt now stands at $39.72 billion (N6.02 trillion). Out of this amount, exter...
Chris Ugwu examines Commodity Exchange as an alternative investment window in a depressed equity market. Investors’ new appetite to have their investment portfolio in the market diversified is no doubt occasioned by the continued depletion...
In order to significantly cut down on the N1.6 trillion cash transaction yearly, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is set to roll out about 150,000 point of sale (PoS) terminal by the end of December 2012. CBN governor, Lamido Sanusi said an effi...
Miffed by the low investors’ confidence in the nation’s capital market, Bauchi State Gevernor, Isa Yuguda has stressed the need for public and private Stakeholders to ensure that confidence was restored in the fledging market. ...
Lafarge Wapco Cement Nigeria Plc is targeting a turnover of N18.65 billion during the forth quarter ending December 31, 2011. The company also forecasts a profit after tax of N1.02 billion during the last quarter of the year. Lafarge had re...
In a bid to restore stability and liquidity in the nation’s equity market, a market analyst has called on the Nigerian Stock Exchange to lobby the federal government to push for mandatory listing of major government owned enterprises in the ...