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Lagos offers okada riders job opportunities

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Thursday, November 8th, 2012

The Lagos State Government is working on a number of options to engage genuine commercial motorcycle operators, recently thrown out of jobs as a result of the implementation of the new traffic law, in meaningful ventures. The Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, dropped the hint in Lagos on Wednesday, stressing that the move was […]

Senators query Jonathan’s N1.23tn borrowing

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Thursday, November 8th, 2012

SENATORS at plenary on Wednesday questioned the Federal Government’s 2012-2015 Medium Term External Borrowing Plan of $7.905bn, about N1.23tn. President Goodluck Jonathan had sent in the request since February this year and it was meant to finance pipeline projects, youth employment and power infrastructure in the country. During the debate, senators were generally sceptical of […]

Boko Haram members, sponsors are uncivilised – Jonathan

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

SIX days after the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, set conditions for ceasefire, President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday described its members and sponsors as “uncivilised” “Terminating innocent lives through terrorist acts is primitive, so perpetrators and sponsors of terrorism through Boko Haram cannot be anything but uncivilised,” Jonathan said. He spoke in Dutse, Jigawa State […]

Amaechi and Akpabio’s controversial new jets

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Rivers, State News Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

THE recent acquisition of private jets by the governments of Rivers and Akwa Ibom states is as reckless as it is highly insensitive. The massive waste of money is coming at a time when the rate of poverty and deprivation is worsening in the country. It is indefensible for state governors to add acquisition of […]

Picture: How ‘PhD holder’ lived, died in refuse dump

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

What exactly happened to Dr. Olawunmi Thorpe, an Ogun State indigene, who died a homeless man, may never be known. To passersby and residents, who saw Thorpe everyday in the rubbish dump beside the rail line at Fagba Bus Stop in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State, he was a deranged man. But what […]

Historic Obama: Barack Obama re-elected

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

President Barack Obama handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term Tuesday after a bitter and historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states. Networks project that Obama beat Romney after nabbing the crucial state of Ohio. The Romney campaign’s last-ditch attempt to put blue-leaning Midwestern […]

A Good Name is an Invaluable Possession – By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists Sunday, November 4th, 2012

By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | “Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous […]

Mimiko’s Victory & Lessons for Specious Progressives – By Emmanuel Ajibulu

Posted by admin Articles, Emmanuel Ajibulu, NNP Columnists, Ondo, State News Sunday, November 4th, 2012

By Emmanuel Ajibulu | Abuja, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | As expected with every victory, the landslide success of Governor Olusegun Mimiko at the October 20, gubernatorial poll, triggered uncontrollable jubilation amongst the great people of Ondo State and even beyond. In the euphoria of jubilation, the number one citizen was swarmed with congratulatory […]

Kudos to Gov. Okorocha – By Kenneth Uwadi

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News Sunday, November 4th, 2012

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | This is certainly not the best of times for over 15 communities of Egbema and Oguta in Imo State of Nigeria ,many of whom have been forced to flee their homes in the last four weeks due to flood and are now taking temporary […]

Communication – A Poem by Muhammad Ajah

Posted by admin Columnists, Headlines, muhammad Ajah Sunday, November 4th, 2012

COMMUNICATION By Muhammad Ajah (From his poem collection “Man in the Mirror”) Have I read the better Than Wordsworth of Cumberland? The flowing ideas that prick Blockheads, ignorance-home And freshens savants’ anxiety to impact Through logical strings of soft words Words-worthy for simplicity Wherefore can I liken the medium Between man and knowledge The orator […]