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UNICEF tasks Northern states on polio, girl-child education

Posted by admin Headlines, North-Central, North-East, North-West Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Deputy Representative, Mr Jacques Boyer, has stressed the need for traditional and religious leaders in the 10 Northern states of Nigeria, to mobilise and educate their subjects on the need to tackle polio, girl-child education and child protection in their respective areas. This is just as he said that […]

‘Inadequate funding of police, bane of criminal justice’

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede SAN, on Tuesday, identified lack of adequate funding of the Nigeria Police as one of the major problems facing administration of criminal justice in the country. He also advocated the construction of more prisons as a panacea for de-congestion of prisons across the […]

Boko Haram: NYSC DG denies bomb blasts at orientation camps

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

THE Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Mahazu Tsiga, has denied media reports that there were bomb blasts at some orientation camps of the NYSC in the country. Speaking at the NYSC orientation camp in Tsafe, Zamfara State, on Tuesday, the DG said such reports were aimed at distracting the attention of […]

Police recruitment: ‘Why the North is gaining the edge

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

’INVESTIGATIONS have revealed reasons the authorities of the Nigeria Police are giving preferential treatment to indigenes of northern states, who are already enlisted in the rank and file of the force, as it is aimed at given the regions of the North an edge in the establishment. Nigerian Tribune gathered that though the force planned […]

‘41% of Nigerian children stunted’

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Forty-one per cent of Nigerian children under five years of age are stunted, 23 per cent underweight and 14 per cent have wasted limbs. This disclosure was made by Professor Oladimeji Oladepo, Dean Faculty of Public Health, Univesity of Ibadan, while quoting the 2008 Nigerian Demographic Health Survey report. He said this during his welcome […]

Senate to probe BPE (Who will probe the Senate?)

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, Senate Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

The Senate, on Tuesday set up an adhoc committee to investigate the privatisation and commercialisation activities of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) from 1999 to date. The committee, which has two weeks within which to submit its report, has Senator Ahmad Lawan as chairman while Senators Babafemi Ojudu, Alli Ndume, Philip Aduda, Infeayi Okowa, […]

Govt, Labour talks on new pay deadlocked

Posted by admin General Politics, Headlines, Latest Politics Monday, July 18th, 2011

HOPE of a truce that will stop tomorrow’s planned strike by organised Labour appeared to have fizzled out yesterday, as the meeting of the nation’s Labour union leaders and representatives of the Federal Government as well as other stakeholders failed to reach an agreement on the minimum wage imbroglio. However, another round of talks is […]

Islamic banking: CBN chief escapes corps members’ wrath in Asaba

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Delta, Headlines, State News Monday, July 18th, 2011

DELTA State Controller of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mrs. Elizabeth Agu, weekend, narrowly escaped the wrath of some youth corps members in the state, when she delivered a paper by the CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, which touched on the controversial Islamic banking system soon to be introduced in the country. Agu who […]

Ekiti group berates Fayemi over sack of 5,000 LG workers

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Monday, July 18th, 2011

The Ekiti Justice Group (EJG) has berated the State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi over the sack of 5,300 local government workers in the State, describing the action as “wicked, malicious, retrogressive and ungodly.” EJG said in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti yesterday and signed by its Coordinator, Dr Tunji Oluwasanmi, that; “No God-fearing governor would […]

World honours Mandela at 93

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, July 18th, 2011

Former President Nelson Mandela spent his 93rd birthday with friends and relatives in his rural hometown yesterday, as South Africans paid tribute to the anti-apartheid icon through song and community service projects. Millions of South African schoolchildren began their day by singing a special version of “Happy Birthday” To Mandela, leading worldwide chorus of birthday […]