CRITICISMS over the takeover of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) by the National Universities Commission (NUC) continued yesterday as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and a former Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly, A...
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THE plan by governments across Latin America to begin the implementation of a new scheme aimed at mitigating climate change by curbing carbon emissions from the destruction of tropical forests will harm the rural poor, according to experts. The ex...
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THE United Nations Educational Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organisation (WHO) and other partners are supporting the Federal and state governments in the country as they strive to contain the cholera outbreak in 11 states. Government off...
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THE United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has described the impact of oil spill in the Ogoni environment as serious and has apologised for the report credited to its officials saying that 90 per cent of spill in the area is caused by sabotag...
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AHEAD of the 2011 polls, the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Josephine Anenih, has urged female political aspirants not to compromise integrity and dignity in their quest for office. Even as they keep aspiring for the attain...
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HUNDREDS of indigenes of Akure, the Ondo State capital, defied a heavy downpour at the weekend to usher the new monarch, Oba Adebiyi Adegboye Adesida, into the palace as the rites of ascension to the throne of the Deji climaxed. Although the rain ...
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• Jigawa records seven deaths
TO assist victims of cholera and other water-borne diseases in Borno State, the government has approved the release of N100 million for the procurement and distribution of drugs to the 26 cholera treatment centres....
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TO stem the tide of maternal mortality and move towards the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a Senior Special Assistant to the President, Dr. Amina Az-Zubair, has urged women politicians to use their campaign machinery to amp...
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THE Imo State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), a renowned preacher, Rev. Uma Upkai and other personalities have appealed to security agencies in the country to always treat the clergy with dignity. The appeal came against the...
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KWARA State Police Command at the weekend declared the state "a dangerous ground "for robbers and perpetrators of other heinous crimes, noting that they would do all within their power to flush them out of the state. The Command spoke while paradi...
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LAGOS State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the recent hike in fares charged by the state government-owned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) on its routes in the metropolis.
It said the Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN)-led Lag...
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IN what its Commissioner, Balla Magaji Nasarawa, described as “harvest of criminals and an arsenal that can service a small army,” the Ondo State Police Command recently paraded 50 suspects who were arrested at various locations in the state for o...
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A UNIVERSITY teacher, Professor Francis Egbokhare, yesterday deplored the incessant struggle for university admissions by many secondary school certificate holders in the country and urged the Federal Government to establish more centres to addres...
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EMERGING facts on Lt. General Chikadibia Isaac Obiakor, the Nigerian military officer at United Nations headquarters as an outgoing military adviser, have shown that he has now been offered an extended six-months stay on UN staff, but not in his...
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Allegation Of Fraud In Rescued Bank
HIGH-LEVEL permutations and realignments now trail bidding process for the rescued banks under the superintendence of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This is happening, as three of the new Tier 1 banks in N...
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