When the defunct Eastern Regional government established the now equally defunct Eastern Nigerian Development Corporation (ENDC) in 1955, it majorly charged it with the responsibility of improving the quantity and quality of palm produce on which the e...
The Enugu Timber Market is reputed as one of the largest wood markets in the country and also about the only timber marker in the country that is regularly gutted by mysterious fire, sometimes twice in a year. For the second time in less th...
The National Assembly recently passed a legislation prohibiting same-sex marriage in Nigeria. This development gave rise to an uproar among the international community and some gay right activists. John Oba, in this piece sought the opinion of some Nig...
Director- General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia has, commissioned the NYSC Corpers Lodge built by Khana Local Government Council at Bori, in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. The storey building, which h...
The national commandant, of the Peace Corps of Nigeria, Ambassador Dickson Akoh, has appealed to the Federal Government to immortalize and compensate the two members of the Boys Scouts’ Movement who lost their lives during the St Finbarr’s ...
The Minister of Science and Technology, Prof Bassey Ewa, has called on China to train Nigerian engineers in the building and fabrication of solar panel chips and smaller satellites so as to make the country self sufficient in the production of these pr...
Chairman of the Nigerian National Merit Award Committee, Mr. Abdulahi Yola, has recommended that the Science Technology and Innovation Fund recently approved by the Federal Executive Council be run as an agency. Yola, who made this call when he led the...
National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI) has said that three entrepreneurs that passed out of its centre in Kano have won awards from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The apex bank gave the three entrepreneurs the sum of N900, 000 for their va...
In this piece, NGOZI OBOH writes on the efforts by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to assist in producing scientists and engineers who are capable of translating research results to goods and services required in...
Mr Ben Ugwuegbulam, the Spokesman for the police command in Rivers, has said that the police have intensified the search for the rescue of Sen. George Sekibo’s wife, Mrs Asime George-Sekibo. Sekibo represents Rivers East senatorial district...
A Kaduna Upper Customary Court on Monday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to one Julius Olaitan of Ugwar Rimi quarters, Kaduna to return his eight-year-old girl, Kemi Olaitan, to school. Mrs Yemi Olaitan of the same address, told the court in a suit sh...
The Nigerian Immigration Service in Kebbi has deported 100 illegal foreigners in the past one week, the Controller of Immigration in the state, Mr Sule Momoh has said. Momoh told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Monday that the aliens had no legal entry perm...
A group of artisans in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun, have expressed worry over the epileptic power supply in the town, saying it was affecting their businesses. The artisans who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ijebu-Ode on Monday appealed to Power Ho...
Six players from a South African rugby club are feared dead after being swept out to sea during a post-practice ocean swim, officials said on Monday. One player from the Motherwell Rugby Football Club has already been declared dead in the weekend incid...
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard believes the players have no-one but themselves to blame for their current struggles in the league - because for much of the season they simply have not been good enough. The Blues currently sit five points adrif...