The Senator Heineken Lokpobiri-led Senate Ad-Hoc Committee, set up to probe the N1.3 trillion transport sector funds expended between 1999 and 2007, has met with the Minister of Transportation, Diezani Allison-Maduekwe to set the stage for the public hearing into
Examination malpractices by students in the country have continued to soar due to the educational system, which still retains the colonial heritage that stresses the pursuit of white collar jobs. Students are therefore desperate in their quest for certificates for
Family of late Major--General Abdulkarim Adisa, former Minister of Works and Housing, is contesting ownership of one of his estates with an occupant of the property.
Dare devil armed robbers yesterday invaded the residence of the former governor of Kwara State, late Alhaji Muhammad Lawal, carting away valuable goods running into several millions of naira.
Uturn Concepts, a consulting organization that empowers non-profit organizations and small corporations for effective social impact by helping to build credibility, capacity and attracting sustainable funding to achieve their objectives is to hold its seminar series in three African countries
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Information, Senator Ayogu Eze, has explained the constitutional procedure by which the seat of Chairman of Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, can be declared vacant by the Independent National Electoral
Just three months to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Members of the House of Representatives have adviced the Minister of Sports, Abdurahman Hassan Gimba and the Director- General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Dr. Amos Adamu to resign
An alarm was sounded at the Pan African Parliament (PAP) over the global food crisis last week when a member asked the regional assembly to find lasting solutions to the challenge of food poverty in the continent.
Contrary to media reports that burial arrangement for late Afenifere leader, Pa Abraham Adesanya has been shifted, the burial will still commence on Monday May 19 and end on Friday May 23, 2008, as earlier scheduled.
The countdown is on, towards another Nigerian boxer emerging as champion on the world stage in the heavyweight class, after the feats of Samuel Peter, with ex-champion, Henry Akinwande now staging a big comeback.
One of the most worrisome plagues confronting the nation is unarguably the issue of stable electricity supply. The magnitude of the problem is such that it seems to hold the sole key to Nigeria's economic leap.
State governments and various State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEB), have been warned of the dangers in allowing education to collapse in the country.
There are great lessons to learn from the rising profile of former Senate President Ken Nnamani. The rise has been steady since he left office a year ago. His profile is a profound testimony to the fact that amid the
The under representation of women in the management of higher educational institutions in Nigeria was the focus of a round table organised by Accessure Educational, an advocacy group on education, in conjunction with the Goethe-Institut Lagos, recently. Uchechukwu Nnaike reports
Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Gusau, has said that the Federal Government would ask investors not performing creditably in private companies in the aluminium and steel sector to quit.
They are not often remembered. With the poor quality of teaching and learning, as well as the environment where these take place, many are wont to ask the biblical question, 'can anything good come out of Nazareth ?' But an
The race toward the governorship re-run election in Bayelsa State started on a sad note on Monday, when a journalist and police orderly attached to the Commissioner for Lands and Housing , Mr Ayakeme Whisky, died when their boat capsized.
Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, in Ikeja passed the amendment bill for the State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) thus setting the stage for the conduct of local government polls in the state .
The Committee on Environment and Ecology of the Senate will tomorrow open a debate on a bill for an act to establish a National Climate Commission; in a public hearing scheduled to hold at the National Assembly.
