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The Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Umaru Ibrahim, has revealed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank would be using the existence and capacity of deposit insurance as a...
Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda has presented an appropriation bill of N137, 342, 108, 137 billion to the State House of Assembly for approval as the 2013 budget. Making the presentation yesterday, the governor explained that the sum was for both capi...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, adjourned judgement indefinitely in the suit filed by a faction of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Katsina State challenging the withdrawal of their certificates of return by the Independent ...
The Governor of Niger State,Dr. Muazu Babngida Aliyu has said that the state government would use agro products to accelerate the economic development of the state. Aliyu represented yesterday by the Deputy Governor, Hon Ahmed Musa Ibeto at the Nationa...
The Will of Ikemba Nnewi and Ezeigbo Gburu-gburu, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu which was read weekend before members of his family at the probate registry of the Enugu state High Court has been described as sacrosanct. This assertion was made in a p...
Executive Secretary National Human Rights Commission, Professor Bem Angwe, has observed that 70 percent of inmates in Nigerian prisons have no business there because they are awaiting trial. He made this observation in Sokoto, yesterday, at a sensitisa...
Stakeholders in the rice milling and distribution chain in Nigeria have raised an alarm over what they described as increasing wave of smuggling of the commodity into the country, worth as much as N1.7billion monthly. The stakeholders, who spoke under ...
Sunshine Stars of Akure head coach, Samuel Abimbola has expressed optimism that the team would surely pick a ticket to play in the continent at the end of the 2012/2013 Nigeria Premier League season kickoff soon. Speaking ahead of the preseason t...
In this interview with DONATUS NADI, Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Almakura, speaks on how the nation’s governance is not serving the common man well. He also discusses the contentious issue of retirement pension, saying it has...
The National Chairman of Nigeria Beach Volleyball Federation, Engr. Musa Nimrod has fingered low patronage in the sport as the reason for its slow growth. He stated that until the government and relevant authorities concerned see sport as a viable econ...
Former minister of education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has charged sports administrators in the country to stop politicizing the sector if Nigeria must regain its lost glory in the world of sports. Speaking at the public presentation of TEAP FC, an Abuja bas...
Encomiums continue to pour in for the Golden Eaglets after their qualification for the 2003 African Under-17 Championship in a fashionable manner on Sunday with a 4-0 aggregate win over the Junior Eagles of Mali in Bamako. In fact, the Golden Eagles we...
There is palpable uproar in the family of the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. The bone of contention has been how best to share the property left behind by the former war lord. The quarrel started shortly after the burial of...
As the nation continues to grapple with challenges of insecurity in parts of the country, children, under the aegis of Children’s Government of Nigeria, have united in prayer for God to rid the nation of the security woes bedeviling it. The child...
Aquaculture has gained so much attention and investment because of the decline in the catch from the ocean, an increasing world population with rising per capital consumption, the demand for animal protein has continued to increase hence the need to ap...