No fewer than 13 police recruits were burnt to death while six others were critically injured in an auto accident on Sunday in Omu-Aran, Kwara. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the newly posted recruits were said to be on...
Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun says his administration will continue to improve on the standard of education in the state. Amosun stated this during the cententary celebration of Ijebu-Ode Grammar School in Ijebu-Ode. The governor, who noted that educati...
Seventy Special Marshalls of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) serving in Kogi State have been sacked for non-performance and other acts of indiscipline. The outgoing State Coordinator of the Special Marshall Command of the FRSC, Mr Joseph Solo...
The new project of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), will address duplication of biometrics by different government agencies in Nigeria, its Director-General, Mr Chris Onyemenam has said. Onyemenam said on Sunday at the forum of the N...
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday embark on a working visit to Switzerland and Ethiopia, Presidential Spokesman Reuben Abati has disclosed. Abati, in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, said the President’s engagements in Geneva and D...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has worked out plans to enroll Nigerians living abroad in its new identity management project. The Director-General of the commission, Mr Chris Onyemenam, made this known in Abuja on Sunday at the foru...
Former UN Secretary General Koffi Annan has described Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, as an `` impeccable public officer and astute diplomat’’.
Annan stated this on the occasion of the 80th birthday celebration organised for the former Commonwealth scribe on Saturday in London.
He said in an interview with the Western Europe correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that ``the celebrant has done a lot for the world and the Commonwealth of Nations where he gave his best for 34 years’’.
``This is a wonderful celebration for a man who has done so much for his country and the world.
``I am personally happy to be here to honour him, celebrate him, and to wish him another 30 years.
`` He is so youthful. I have never seen a younger 80-year-old man like him and I wish him sound health because the world still needs him,’’ Annan said.
Annan urged young Africans to aspire for greatness by emulating Anyaoku’s exemplary leadership.
`` I encourage young people to begin to assume responsibility, they do not have to be old to be responsible and assume leadership,'' Annan said.
``We are moving on and the next generation should be taking over.
The Chairman of Senate Committee on FCT, Sen. Smart Adeyemi, on Sunday said he would spearhead a nationwide protest to resist moves by State Governors to oppose local governments’ autonomy. He said it was unconstitutional for the governors not to...