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20% of students to gain admission as 1.4m sit for UTME exams, today!

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Saturday, June 18th, 2011

A total of 1, 493, 603 candidates who registered for the 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, will be sitting for the examination across the country today. However, Vanguard gathered that due to acute shortage of spaces, only about 20 per cent of qualified candidates will be offered admission, into the about 117 universities in the […]

Louis Edet House bomb blast: Where is safe in Nigeria?

Posted by admin Headlines, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police Friday, June 17th, 2011

BARELY nine months after the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja was thrown into confusion, fear, mourning and bewilderment following the bomb explosions that erupted October 1, 2010 when Nigeria was marking its 50th anniversary, the nation’s capital city was on Thursday, June 16 thrown into a similar situation. This time, it was not a public place, […]

Day Kuku stunned Polish Ambassador, Niesiolowski

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, June 17th, 2011

UNTIL you encounter the erstwhile Special Adviser to the President on Niger-Delta and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Committee and one of the foremost Niger-Delta activists, Hon Kingsley Kuku, you may possibly not recognize why President Goodluck Jonathan found the Niger-Delta activist a robust person to handle the tactical agency after the exit of the […]

Court Issues Bench Warrant Against Yar’Adua’s Wife

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, June 17th, 2011

A Lagos High Court in Ikeja has issued a bench warrant against the wife of the late Major-General Musa Yar’Adua, Hajia Asabe Yar’Adua. Hajia Yar’Adua had been charged to court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged three count-offences involving financial malpractices. The anti-graft agency had accused Yar’Adua of offences of issuance […]

Argentina, Eagles Re-match: So What?

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, June 17th, 2011

I still do not understand the rationale behind the decision of the Nigeria Football Federation to re-play Argentina after Nigeria walloped her 4-1, even if it was her third best team. The hype, preparations and pressure to break a long jinx against the South Americans in Abuja, cost the Super Eagles a crucial win and […]

Indian firm to boost Nigeria’s oil palm production with N32b investment

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, June 17th, 2011

AN Indian firm, Wilmar International, is set to boost palm oil production in Nigeria with a N32 billion investent in Rivers State. Already, the company had acquired the land for the enterprise. It has also opened a corprate office in the state. Just as it has started recruiting the required manpower needed for the […]

U.S. court convicts Nigerian woman of slavery

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

A United States federal jury has convicted a Nigerian, Bidemi Bello, of forced labour, trafficking for forced labour, document servitude, and alien harbouring A statement by the US Department of Justice said Bello, formerly a resident of Suwanee, near Atlanta, Georgia, was convicted of eight counts late Friday. According to federal prosecutors, the 41-year-old forced […]

Ex Ogun Gov, Gbenga Daniel returns, declines comments

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News, Top Stories Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

IMMEDIATE past Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Wednesday, returned to the country from United Kingdom close to three weeks after he left Nigeria. He arrived aboard a Boeing 747 British Airways aircraft that landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, around 6.30 pm . The former Governor, however, declined comments, when […]

Garba emerges Gombe Assembly Speaker

Posted by admin Gombe, Headlines, State News Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

GOMBE – Former Deputy Speaker in the Gombe State House of Assembly, Alhaji Inua Garba, was yesterday elected unopposed as the new speaker of the 4th Assembly with Alhaji Kawu Musa Biri emerging as his deputy. In his acceptance speech, the new Speaker who announced the names of other principal officers of the House including […]

Nigeria to host 39th World Congress on Military Medicine

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Abuja – Nigeria is to host the 39th World Congress on Military Medicine from Nov. 20 to Nov. 25, 2011, says Maj.-Gen. Merlin Macel, Chairman, Scientific Council of International Committee on Military Medicine (ICMM). Marcel disclosed this when he paid a courtesy call on the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Azubuike Ihejirika. He said they […]