15 million children receive polio vaccine NIGERIA has recorded 400 per cent increase in polio cases in one year, with 44 cases in 2011 compared to 11 cases by this time in 2010. However, in the continuous onslaught against the scourge in the country, no fewer than 15 million children under the age of […]
PLANS are underway by the Senate to stamp out the scourge of gas flaring in the Niger Delta before the year 2015. Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Environment, Bukola Saraki, stated this yesterday in Ilorin, Kwara State. According to him, relevant bills to fast-track the process and meeting this target would soon be […]
ONE of Nigeria’s literary giants and world acclaimed author, Prof. Chinua Achebe, has now completed his semi-autobiographical book on the country’s civil war, also known as the Biafran War. Also, the publishers of the highly anticipated memoir, Penguin Books USA, have confirmed its release for next September. Family members of the author, and his […]
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday disclosed that he discussed the possibility of an expression of remorse from the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu “on the Nigerian civil war which in itself was a culmination of actions and reactions.” Obasanjo said this while paying tributes to the late Ikemba Nnewi. He said: “It is with deep sadness […]
THE Federal Government has commenced the training of about 28,000 head teachers of primary schools across the country, as part of the effort toward the actualisation of the Millennium Development Goals and Education For All (EFA) by 2015. The Federal Government also lamented over what it described as “total decay of infrastructure and erosion of […]
THE inauguration of the new board of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) appears to be hanging in the balance, following revelations from reports by local and international agencies, which described the newly confirmed chairman, Mr Francis Ugochukwu Elechi, as a Politically Exposed Person (PEP). Elechi and five other members of […]
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor THE death of Dim Emeka Ojukwu is in the view of Mr.Sylvester Alor, Special Adviser to the Governor of Anambra State an opportunity for the restructuring of the Ikemba’s political legacy, the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA. “Now that he has gone finally, I think it would be an opportunity […]
Emma Ujah and Caleb Ayansina The three tiers of government, yesterday, shared a total of N603.444 billion from federally collected revenue for the month of October, which would be used for November expenditure. According to the communiqué issued at the end of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting in Abuja, the revenue which was […]
STATESMEN are usually given state burial but former Biafran Leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, will get more than that. His body will be flown to three African countries and one American country before the final burial in his Nnewi country home, according to his will. Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, who gave the indication, yesterday, […]
THE election petitions tribunal sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has dismissed for lack of merit, the motion by Dr Chris Ngige of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), challenging its competence to entertain the petition by Professor Dora Akunyili of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), after the expiration of stipulated 180 days. In a ruling delivered on […]
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