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Nigeria tops Africa in home remittances, $21bn involved

Posted by admin Headlines, Latest Politics Monday, April 14th, 2014

BY OMOH GABRIEL in Washington Nigeria got a total of $21 billion as home remittances flows from Nigerians living abroad in 2013. This puts the country as the fifth largest recipient of foreign remittances among developing countries and first in Africa. Data released by the World Bank in Washington, weekend, showed that India remained in […]

Insecurity: Nigeria needs competent leaders, says Soyinka

Posted by admin Headlines, Wole Soyinka Monday, April 14th, 2014

Y GBENGA OLARINOYE OSOGBO— Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday in Osogbo, declared that the country was in need of competent leaders to confront, among others, the security challenges facing the country. He said the security challenges facing the country could not be solved by prayers, but by leaders with capacity to deal with the […]

Brazil World Cup: Eagles get S/Final target (Why set your target so low?)

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, April 14th, 2014

By Tony Ubani As the zero hour approaches swiftly for the Brazil World Cup( 58 days to go), Super Eagles have been given a semi final target. The Nigerian Supporters Club(Worldwide) in a World Press conference yesterday at their Ayinde Giwa secretariat set the target noting that the target was solely for musical group who […]

Resource control: Ijaw Congress knocks Lamido

Posted by admin Adamawa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News Monday, April 14th, 2014

Lamido of Adamawa, Lamido Mustapha THE Ijaw National Congress has slammed the Lamido of Adamawa, Dr. Muhammadu Barkindo Mustapha, over his position on the demand for resource control by the South-South geo-political zone. Mustapha had during a plenary at the National Conference proposed a stringent condition for the demand for a 100 per cent resource […]

North can survive without oil, says Lamido Adamawa (What a joke)

Posted by admin Adamawa, Headlines, State News Sunday, April 13th, 2014

A delegate to the National Conference and the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammadu Mustapha, has said that the North can survive economically without proceeds from petroleum resources. The controversial monarch noted that but for the laziness on the part of the people of the region, the proceeds from agricultural produce would have made the region […]

5 escape death in Lagos collapsed building

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, April 12th, 2014

BY SEYE OJO No fewer than five persons cheated death when a three-storey building in Ojo Alaba, Lagos collapsed in the early hours of yesterday. It was gathered that the first part of the building still under construction on Adeyemi Street, People’s Bus Stop, Ojo Alaba, collapsed at about 2:00a.m, but no life was lost. […]

New Anambra governor, Obiano, swears in commissioners, special advisers

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Saturday, April 12th, 2014

Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano yesterday swore in 19 new commissioners and 10 Special Advisers. Those sworn in are Chief Tony Onyinma ( Information) and Dr Chinedu Emeka ( Water and Public Utilities.) Two former commissioners in Gov. Peter Obi’s administration including Mr. Callistus Ilozumba and Mrs. Azuka Enemuo were retained in their former […]

Gay rights activists in talks with World Bank

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, April 12th, 2014

In the first conversation of its kind at a World Bank/IMF shareholders meeting, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim Friday met with 15 Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) leaders from developing countries around the world to listen to their experiences and concerns about discrimination in the development process against persons solely because of […]

Breadwinners in prison

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, April 12th, 2014

How in incarceration, inmates continue to cater for their families It was a cool Saturday evening, January 23, 2014. It happened to be another special day at the Ikoyi Prison in Lagos. Ordinarily, inmates are restricted or confined to their cells, but this day was delightedly different. The prison authorities had organised end-of-year-cum-thanksgiving service for […]

When a yesterday’s man came calling

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, April 12th, 2014

The Villa plays host to different people daily. They come with different missions. While some meet personally with President Goodluck Jonathan, others meet his close aides who they believe, will in turn, present their requests to the ‘Oga at the top’. The personalities involved determine the time they will visit and which part of the […]