FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup-bound Falconets of Nigeria will resume camping in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, on Sunday, July 1, 2012. The Nigerians girls, who are the current vice champions of the world, swept past Zimbabwe and Democratic Republic of Congo in the African qualifying series, reaching the finals to be played in Japan [...]
Last week’s attack by Boko Haram on three churches and the reprisals that followed in Kaduna state that led to the death of more than 100 persons, resulting in the imposition of curfew in the state, if not carefully handled might herald a religious conflict in the country. There is a popular saying that no [...]
Governor Saidu Usman Dakingari of Kebbi state yesterday condoled with the families of the 13 victims of the last week boat mishap that occurred in the River Dukku in Birnin Kebbi local government area of the state. He described the incident as “unfortunate and an act of God” and gave the assurance that such calamity [...]
An overnight downpour across the Lagos metropolis and parts of Ogun State resulted in flooding which paralsysed socio economic activities in the two neighbouring states. The flood left in its trail collapsed buildings, and an unconfirmed number of deaths. It also caused traffic gridlock as several roads were flooded. The popular Lagos Abeokuta Expressway caved [...]
The World Bank is to invest over N3 billion in three programmes aimed at improving the capacity of Nigerian youths in nine states of the federation, the Commissioner for Youth Development in Niger state, Mrs Victoria Jumai Jiya, has said. Jiya disclosed this yesterday in a press conference, adding that the programme which would span [...]
Despite the relaxing of the 24-hour curfew imposed on Kaduna state following the sectarian crisis that rocked the state recently, some youth corps members in the state have failed to report to their places of primary assignment and the weekly Community Development Service. They were absent from their places of assignment and the CDS meeting, [...]
Yoruba Awareness Forum, Northern states and Abuja has endorsed the candidature of Oluwaotimi O. Akeredolu SAN (AKETI) of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the Ondo state governorship election scheduled for October 22, 2012. The decision to support Akeredolu was taken at a meeting held on Saturday June 16, 2012 in Kaduna. The meeting, [...]
Investment in the nation’s stocks market yesterday nose-dived as investors staked 1.013 billion on 160.377 million shares in 3,208 deals. This is against 4.512 billion shares worth N17.129 billion traded by investors the previous day in 3264 deals. Similarly, the two market indicators of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) declined by 0.15 per cent at [...]
Some financial experts have advised the federal government to lay emphasis on the diversification of the economy to minimise effects of dwindling price of crude oil in the international market. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Lagos that it was time the country started planning well by fully exploiting all the [...]
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Lamido was right on distressed students
I read with mixed feelings, a news item that the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Prof Abdullahi Mustapha, had asked the federal government to probe the governments of Jigawa and Rivers states, for evacuating their indigenes from the university without clearance during the recent Kaduna crisis. The feelings of the VC are understandable, given [...]