Sanusi, Okonjo-Iweala, others seek more role for women

PROMINENT stakeholders who met in Abuja at the unveiling of the 2012 gender report in Nigeria yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the state of women in the country and urged the government to tackle gender issues. Those who expressed their...

Sanusi, Okonjo-Iweala, others seek more role for women

PROMINENT stakeholders who met in Abuja at the unveiling of the 2012 gender report in Nigeria yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the state of women in the country and urged the government to tackle gender issues. Those who expressed their...

Taraba CJ decries judiciary’s funding, to decongest prisons

FIRST female Chief Judge (CJ) of Taraba State, Justice Josephine Tukur, tied the Nigerian judiciary’s alleged poor performance to its underfunding by the relevant authorities at the federal and state levels across the federation. She believes...

Taraba CJ decries judiciary’s funding, to decongest prisons

FIRST female Chief Judge (CJ) of Taraba State, Justice Josephine Tukur, tied the Nigerian judiciary’s alleged poor performance to its underfunding by the relevant authorities at the federal and state levels across the federation. She believes...

NBC may ban tokunbo TV, radio sets

Govt assures of passage of motion pictures bill THE National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) yesterday hinted that with effect from 2015, used (tokunbo) television and radio sets may be banned from Nigeria. This, according to the NBC, is in line...

NBC may ban tokunbo TV, radio sets

Govt assures of passage of motion pictures bill THE National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) yesterday hinted that with effect from 2015, used (tokunbo) television and radio sets may be banned from Nigeria. This, according to the NBC, is in line...

Armoured, Infantry officers for week-long training in Bauchi

THE Nigerian Army Armoured Corps Headquarters in Bauchi State, in conjunction with the Nigerian Army Infantry Corps, will hold a joint yearly training week from Monday, May 14, 2012, to Friday, May 18, 2012. It is tagged: “Combat arms training...

Fashola lauds Ibru, tasks youths on entrepreneurship

LAGOS State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday urged the nation’s youths, especially the teeming unemployed ones, to imbibe the spirit of entrepreneurship in order to drive the country’s economy. Fashola stated this at a book launch in...

Father petitions minister over daughter’s death at childbirth

AN aggrieved father, Mr. James Egbuchulam, has petitioned the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, over the death of his daughter, Mrs. Uloma Egbuchulam Anyanechi, during childbirth at Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Umuahia, Abia State. Egbuchulam...

Lagos officials meet as patients wait for new doctors

Judge’s absence stalls sacked workers’ suit NEW medical doctors recruited by the Lagos State government to replace the striking health personnel are yet to report for work the second-day running. In all the hospitals owned by the state, none...