The Lady Chauffeur Training Scheme (LCTS) initiated by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan under her pet project, Women for Change Development Initiative in partnership with the National Directorate for Employment (NDE) for 200 women in the Federal ...
The take-off of the Hydro Power Producing Area Development Commission (HYPPADEC) is now enmeshed in the murky waters of Nigerian politics. The intrigues centred around the percentage of derivation rights to affecting states and the growing demand to in...
Last Sunday’s twin-bomb explosions at St. Andrew’s Protestant Church at the Jaji Military Cantonment, Kaduna, has led to the removal of the heads of the two institutions located in there. No fewer than 17 persons were confirmed dead from th...
The commissioner of Police, Bayelsa State Command, Mr. Kingsley Omire, has announced the existence of a list of 150 persons including politicians and ex-militant leaders suspected to be sponsors of some dreaded cult groups and violent crime...
When the leadership of the Nigerian Army met last week in Asaba, Delta State capital, only two issues were placed before the military top brass; the insecurity in the land and the welfare of officers and men of the force. BAYO OLADEJI, who was at the c...
Rafael Benitez’s unhappy start as Chelsea manager continued as his side crumbled against West Ham, while Manchester City were forced to settle for a point against a dogged Everton side. Arsenal slipped further off the pace as they were beaten at ...
Maria Sharapova is looking to return to the No 1 spot in the world rankings after returning to top form this year. Sharapova has endured a difficult few years after undergoing shoulder surgery at the end of 2008, but has come back brilliantly and brief...
It appears as though former Nigeria international, Samson Siasia, has not settled his issues with the Nigeria Football Federation. News monitored revealed that he told supersport.com that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) never wanted him as head c...
Lagos State Commissioner for Sports, Waheed Enitan-Oshodi, has said that the only feasible threat to Team Lagos are Teams Rivers and Delta. According to him, Team Lagos came prepared. Lagos State had so far won two gold medals in Judo and Taekwondo at ...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday, declared that the Federal Government had the political will and commitment to sustain the progress so far made in combating HIV and AID scourge in the country. He made this declaration at the Special Session for...
The Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian (CVC), said on Saturday that Nigerians spend an average of 500 million dollars annually to European and American universities. This is contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a two-day Consultative ...
He looked ruffled but beamed smiles at every moment as an internet cafe attendant in NETPOINT, located at No 118, Lagos Road, Ikorodu, confronted him, wondering what a rat vendor, who parked his wheelbarrow outside, could be looking for in such an inte...
Have you ever taken time to ask why some commercial drivers inscribe all sorts of slogans on their vehicles? Ayodele, Abimbola in this piece, expounds the deeper message such inscriptions carry. The culture of inscribing words on commercial vehi...
The Committee on Peace, Security, Reconciliation and Healing, set up by the Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF), has been granted another extension of three months. This is to enable them complete their work, which they failed to complete after the ...
A building allegedly housing a bomb factory in Zaria, Kaduna State was yesterday demolished by the joint military and police task force that stormed the area on a tip off. This comes barely a week after the twin explosions at St. Andrew Military Protes...