The African Union has named a panel of six African presidents to mediate Ivory Coast’s political crisis. The list announced Monday at the AU summit includes two leaders who came to power through elections – the presidents of South Africa and Tanzania. But the panel also includes three men who headed coups in their countries [...]
The Board of Trustees, BOT, of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has distanced itself from a recent communiqué purported to have been issued by the forum and rejecting the President Goodluck Jonathan as the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the April general elections. “The ACF BOT is not party to that [...]
FORMER Minister of Information and Communications and senatorial candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Anambra Central in the April 2011 election, Professor Dora Akunyili, has said that fake drug dealers who are allegedly threatening to deny her their votes during the forthcoming election for her role as the Director-General of the National Agency [...]
As Americans and Turkish nationals are being evacuated from the troubled Egypt, President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Immediate evacuation of Nigerians from the North African nation. To this end, the President ordered the National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi (rtd) and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Odein Ajumogobia to immediately evacuate trapped Nigerians at [...]
Former Presidential aspirant and billionaire businessman Chief Harry Akande has dumped the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) for a yet to be named party. Akande, in a January 28 letter obtained yesterday by The Nation, said his resignation took effect from that date. The letter was addressed to ANPP National Chairman Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu. According [...]
Tihomir Petrov, a 43-year-old mathematics professor at California State University, was charged with two counts of urinating in a public place, specifically the office door of a colleague in the same department AP
Lagos State University LASU currently has available job vacancies for academic staff: lecturers and professors. LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY BADAGRY EXPRESSWAY, OJO Website: www.lasunigeria.org Email: registrar@lasunigeria.org Tel.: 8547002 and 8547589 INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ADVERTISEMENT VACANCIES FOR ACADEMIC STAFF POSITIONS Applications are hereby invited from suitably qualified candidates for the following vacant positions in various Faculties/School/College in [...]
T he proposed alliance between the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has collapsed, THISDAY can report today. This followed the inability of both parties to reach a final agreement on common candidacy for the presidential poll. ACN leaders, including Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, are pushing for the party’s [...]
A 25-year-old carpenter, Godwin Aboye, has been sentenced to 10 days imprisonment by an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for releasing his semen on Mrs. Simi Maikaura in a queue at Karu Village, Abuja. The police prosecutor, Corporal Francis Odofia, told the court that the man, on January 19, while in a queue at ECWA Church [...]
THE late President Umaru Yar’Adua did a kidney transplant in 2002 as governor of Katsina State, but avoided another one as president for fears causing unrest, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The cables claimed former Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources Sayyadi Abba Ruma donated his kidney for the transplant. The cables suggested [...]
Nigeria issued a $500 million debut Eurobond on Friday with a 7.0 percent yield in a deal that was heavily oversubscribed, as appetite for high-yielding assets outweighed concern about its depleted oil savings. Investors from 18 countries spanning Europe, the United States, Asia and Africa took up the offer, which was 2.5 times oversubscribed, Finance [...]
A Civil Engineering & Property Development Company requires management staff into the above position REQUIREMENTS: * Academic excellence * Personality & Integrity Benefits: Attractive Salary, Housing Subsidy, Official Car, etc Interested candidates should forward applications with detailed Curriculum Vitae within two (2) weeks to: The Recruitment Officer P.M.B. 80094, Victoria Island, Lagos – Nigeria OR [...]
A bill meant to ensure enthronement of internal democracy within the various registered political parties is in the offing, Sunday Independent can confirm. The bill, a baby of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), if finally scales through at the National Assembly, will empower the electoral agency to regulate and conduct political party primaries. INEC [...]
European footballers are on average playing at the top level until they are older, growing taller and running faster, according to a study of football across the continent published on Wednesday. The survey, of more than 13,000 players at 534 clubs across 36 leagues by the Swiss-based Professional Football Players Observatory (PFPO), also shows: * [...]
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) resumed from its three-week recess yesterday, directing the Ministry of Power to explore the possibility of using coal to enhance power generation in the country. The Council held its last session on December 23, 2010 before adjourning for three weeks to allow members participate in the Christmas and New Year [...]
Civil servants at the Bayelsa State Secretariat Complex in Yenagoa yesterday abandoned their offices and ran in different directions for fear of bomb explosion. The incident, which occurred around 2 pm, left many offices at the secretariat empty long before the normal closing time. It was learnt that the bomb scare started when someone alerted [...]
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar may have resolved to wind down his campaign structure, barely a week after he lost the presidential primary to President Goodluck Jonathan, just as he offered words of appreciation to members of the organisation for their efforts in projecting him politically. Atiku had broken silence on the PDP National Convention, [...]
Ostensibly to ensure that all eligible voters register in the ongoing registration exercise, the Abia State government has declared today as work-free day for all its civil servants. In the same vein, all markets in the state would also not open for business next Tuesday to allow traders to register. The state commissioner of information [...]
Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who was recently flown abroad for further medical treatment following a recent health crisis which saw him hospitalised at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku Ozalla, has regained consciousness. Anambra state governor, Peter Obi who has just returned to Nigeria after [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said that the termination of the appointment of Okwesilieze Nwodo as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was as a result of the “encumbering litigations” against the party head. Speaking to journalists at the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, upon arrival from Abuja, [...]
BELEAGUERED Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Okwesilieze Nwodo yesterday waved a painful final bye to the job he did passionately for about seven months. He resigned to, according to him, save the party’s image. Nwodo’s resignation letter, which was submitted while the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on his fate was underway, reads in part: [...]
An emergency meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the ruling People’s Democratic Party ( PDP) is to take place today according to a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Rufai Alkali. In a statement that was released in Abuja yesterday, Mr. Alkali said the meeting will take place at the national secretariat [...]
Iran has hanged almost 50 people during the past three weeks, according to human rights groups. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) said 47 prisoners, or an average of about one person every eight hours, have been put to death since the beginning of the new year. Most of the executions are [...]
JOS, Nigeria — A Christian mob razed a mosque and hacked an electoral worker to death Monday as it barred Muslim organisers of April’s polls from a registration exercise in Nigeria’s Jos region, police said. Two other people were shot dead when soldiers escorting the workers opened fire after coming under a hail of rocks [...]
Pressure seems to be mounting on former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to concede defeat and congratulate President Goodluck Jonathan. President Jonathan won a resounding victory at last Thursday’s primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to emerge as the party’s presidential candidate for the April poll. He polled a total of 2,736 votes to Atiku’s [...]
