There was panic at the Oyo State Government Secretariat yesterday as the National Emergency Management Agency {NEMA} embarked on a mock emergency evacuation to sensitise civil servants on steps to take in the wake of emergency disasters. LEADERSHIP gat...
The last group in England with this many records was The Beatles. The U.S. men's Olympic basketball team beat Nigeria 156-73 Thursday night, an epic blowout that answered the Americans' detractors and sent a clear message to let them be. After ...
First, the good news - the all-new Lexus LS 460 luxury sedan will be here in November 2012, and its LS 600h hybrid sibling in January next year. Now the bad news; there’s no word from Toyota SA yet on whether or when we can expect to see the F Sp...
Abia State Governor, Ochendo Theodore Orji, has been in the eye of the storm since he took over the mantle of leadership of that beleaguered state. First, he was elected governor while serving a contrived political incarceration. Second, he survived th...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday described as “conflicting” separate suspects paraded by the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigerian Police allegedly behind the gruesome murder of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, the Princip...
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has thrown its weight behind the embattled national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh in the ongoing battle for the leadership of the party. CNPP also endorsed t...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Uyo has raised the alarm over incessant abduction of its members by people believed to be kidnappers in Akwa Ibom State. In a statement issued yesterday in Uyo by the Chairman of the ...
Coach of the Nigeria Under 20 Football Team, John Obuh has called up five players ahead of the second leg of their third round Africa Youth Championship (AYC) qualifier against Tanzania. The Flying Eagles defeated Tanzania 2-1 in the first leg qualifie...
Niger State government will be shopping for N200 million to fund the hosting of the Nigeria College of Education Game NATCEGA by the State College of Education, Minna next year. The commissioner of Higher and technical Education, Dr. Mustapha Lemu, dis...
The Zamfara State House of Assembly on Thursday directed its committees on Environment and Public Finance to investigate the N1.3 billion Ecological Fund released to the state by the Federal Government. The Speaker of the House, Alhaji Garba Rikiji, ga...
Dana Air spokesman Tony Usidamen on Thursday told a Lagos State Coroner that the plane that crashed on June 3 at Iju-Ishaga, a Lagos suburb, had a faulty engine two years ago. Usidamen, the Head, Corporate Communications of the airline, disclosed...
A port operator, Mr Jimoh Umar, has urged Alhaji Habib Abdullahi, the new Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), to work toward connecting the nation’s ports with rail lines. Umar, the President, Senior Staff Association of Comm...
Senate President David Mark said on Thursday that the disagreement between the legislature and the executive over the non-implementation of the 2012 budget was necessary. The Senate president said this at an event to mark Startimes’ second annive...
The PDP in Edo has demanded an apology from Gov. Adams Oshiomhole for allegedly accusing the party and its leadership of being responsible for the death of his Principal Private Secretary, Mr Olaitan Oyerinde. The Youth Leader of PDP in the state, Mr V...
The National Pension Commission (PENCOM) has issued a 28-day notice to Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) to meet the new capital base of N1 billion or fold up. This was contained in a press statement released by Mr Emeka Onuorah, PENCOM’s Head o...