The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyat Rufa'I, says lack of quality assurance is the major concern of government in implementing its education sector reforms. Rufa'I made the observation on Friday in Abuja on the occasion of the inaugu...
The Ministry of Trade and Investment has inaugurated the Technical Committee for the 2012 Trade and Investment Forum on Oil and Gas Free Zone, Onne, Rivers. Dr Samuel Ortom, the Minister of State for the ministry, who inaugurated the committee in...
The UN should send 300 monitors to Syria as soon as possible to try to stop a wave of killing and violence that a ceasefire has failed to halt, Annan’s Spokesman said. Seven unarmed UN observers are in Syria monitoring a week-old truce, wit...
The FCT Sector Command of the FRSC will on May 1, begin the enforcement of the ban on the covering of number plates, Mr Sunday Ajayi, the sector’s Head of Operation, has said. Ajayi, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nige...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says a total of 110 million SIM cards have been registered and collated by all the GSM service providers operating in the country. Mr Reuben Muoka, NCC’s Public Relations Officer, stated this in an int...
The market indices of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), on Friday recorded further appreciation as the market capitalisation rose by N117 billion. The market capitalisation closed at N6.94 trillion as against N6.82 trillion posted on Thursday due to p...
The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says Eko Distribution Company has refunded N8 million to residents of Victoria Garden City Estate in Lagos. Dr Sam Amadi, NERC chairman, told newsmen in Abuja on Friday that the money was the excess ...
World Bank Vice President for Africa, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, has charged African Leaders to make policies that would boost economic growth and reduce poverty in the region. Ezekwesili said this at the on-going Spring Meeting of the World Bank and Int...
The head of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari on Friday expressed serious concern over developments in the region’s south, following attacks by armed moveme...
The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, on Friday dismissed the appeal filed by the Labour Party (LP) against the emergence of Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu as senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District. The National Assembly/ Legislative House Election...
It was the legendary Alexander the Great (355BC = 322BC), who declared on assumption of kingship, after the murder of his father, that “the dream of the Greek for the conquest of the world was very much alive and that the only thing that had chan...
Paying Tax in the Nigerian society has always been a thorn in the neck for governments, especially in the northern states, who apparently require their citizens to inculcate the habit of paying tax with the uncertainties inherent in federal grants whic...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday denied media reports that the senate had ordered the anti graft agency to hands off further prosecution of the police pension scam. A section of the media (Not LEADERSHIP) had reported that ...
Director General of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr Mike Omeri, has said that the bid of the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, for the World Bank Presidency was a trail blazer for the rest of the world. He said this in an interview wi...
The House of Representatives yesterday threatened to arm twist the executive arm of government to ensure the total implementation of recommendations (when adopted) of the severely indicting report of the Lower House probe of the Federal Government&rsqu...