

Traders want agreements reviewedThe National Association of Nigerian Traders has called on the Federal Government to review all the existing trade agreements in order to bring the best out of ... Continue reading... |
Fiscal Responsibility boss tasks states on internal revenueThe Chairman, Fiscal Responsibility Commission Alhaji Aliyu Jibril Yelwa has canvassed the need for an increase in Internally General Revenue profile of states and local ... Continue reading... |
Crack among pro Jonathan campaignersSpecial adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on political matters Alhaji Ahmed Gulak has sidelined state coordinators of the Goodluck/Sambo Campaign organisation thereby undermining the good intension of the president to carry them along in his transformation agenda, the coordinator for Cross River State Jarigbe A. Jarigbe has ... Continue reading... |
PDP meets Feb 2 over congresses, conventionThe National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is expected to ratify new dates for the party’s congresses and national convention on February 2, ... Continue reading... |
Arabism at end of tether [II]It all started all too gradually, and as the Beirut coffee-house talks blossomed into intellectual talk shops, Arab groups that had until then seen themselves solely as Muslims, began to take on a tribal character right there within the Ottoman ... Continue reading... |
The Ciroma group’s big mistakeIn my column last week, I raised a pertinent question of whether we are in the throes of a new political alliance – that between the South-west and the political North, also known as the ‘core North’. I observed that ... Continue reading... |
Ogba: Athletics will surpass previous Olympics recordPresident of Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Chief Solomon Ogba yesterday declared that the federation’s target at the forthcoming London 2012 Olympic Games is to surpass Nigeria’s previous records at ... Continue reading... |
Warri to host 2012 Grand PrixAthletics Generation of Nigeria (AFN) has revealed plans to stage this year’s Abuja Grand Prix to Warri, in Delta ... Continue reading... |
A blood shortage and its attendant consequencesIn the face of the dire shortage in blood banks, some government owned hospitals are alleged to have invented strange methods to get the precious liquid, although many feel this is ... Continue reading... |
Kaduna: The guardians of Gonin-goraThe moving story of how a Christian bus driver saved the lives of 13 Muslim passengers when post election violence broke out in April last ... Continue reading... |
Kwali residents mourn ex- council chairmanRESIDENTS of Kwali Area Council of the FCT were on Wednesday morning thrown into mourning, when the death of the council’s former chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Bazama Gimba was ... Continue reading... |
Trader jailed for stealing clothesA 22-year-old man, Paul Ogoke, was on Wednesday sentenced to six months imprisonment by an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for stealing two bags of clothes belonging to Simon Effigiri at Nyanya ... Continue reading... |
The Ezillo killingsSeveral episodes of mass murder have occurred in Nigeria in recent months, enough to dull the senses, but that does not mean we should forget in a hurry the terrible carnage that occurred in the Ezillo community in Ishielu Local ... Continue reading... |
Friday’s carnage in KanoApparently co-ordinated attacks, involving explosive devices and armed gunmen, and targeting police and other security formations in Kano last Friday, left over 185 people dead, hundreds injured and destruction of a number of private and public properties. Residents were yet ... Continue reading... |
Soft-core Boko HaramistsFrom thousands of kilometres away, I followed the devastating series of bomb blasts that rocked my hometown, Kano, on Friday, January 20, 2012. With almost two hundred people killed and huge losses of properties, the attacks were apparently well coordinated ... Continue reading... |
Still on hardliners in the fuel subsidy debateEveryone, young or old, felt the impact of the fuel subsidy removal and the nationwide strike that followed its implementation. The consequences of the policy, which took effect from January 1, 2011 before it was modified to N97 by the ... Continue reading... |
Former Nigeria Ambassador to Ethiopia and the permanent representative at the African Union, Rep Nkoyo Toyo, has said that for Nigeria to effect it new foreign policy, all ministries and Nigeria missions abroad must be able to explain what is it all about and apply it.
Dr Bashir Gwandu the Executive Commissioner Technical Services at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been elected as the chairman of the International Telecommunications Union’s Radiocommunications Advisory Group (The RAG) for a term running until 2015.
Read moreIt was indeed more than anything else the brutal and barbaric killings of the Boko Haram leader Muhammad Yusuf, the Late Borno state Commissioner Alhaji Foi and several others, as shown live by Aljazeera satellite channel in 2009, that attracted widespread deep feelings of sympathy amongst other Muslims and all...
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