London tube drivers to strike on Boxing Day
London Underground drivers are to go on strike on Boxing Day in a row over Bank Holiday pay. According to a Sky News report, members of Aslef will are to hold three 24-hour walk-outs – on December 26,...
View ArticleCBN to introduce anti-fraud software in 2013
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday said it would introduce a software that could prevent and detect fraud in the financially system in 2013. The Governor, CBN, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, said at the meeting...
View ArticleFind Nkiru Sylvanus quickly, group urges Imo governor
The Igbo Forum in Nollywood on Tuesday urges Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, to take firm action towards rescuing Nollywood actress, Ms. Nkiru Sylvanus. The actress was kidnapped on Sunday...
View ArticleERA/FoEN decries Akpabio’s stance on ExxonMobil oil spill
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria has slammed the Akwa Ibom State Government for forcing the people of Ibeno to accept relief materials provided by ExxonMobil in the...
View ArticleNew commercial drivers’ licence will reduce road crashes – FRSC
The introduction of the new commercial drivers’ licence will reduce accidents as only qualified and healthy people will be in charge of lives on the road, says an official of the Federal Road Safety...
View ArticleMan, 40, bags two weeks for illegal parking in Ibadan
A 40-year-old man, Akeem Olanrewaju, was on Tuesday sentenced to two months imprisonment by an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court for illegal parking. The prosecutor, Sgt. Olalekan Obayanju, said the...
View ArticleCAC registers 170,582 firms in 2012
The Corporate Affairs Commission on Tuesday said it registered 170,582 companies between January and October 2012. The Registrar-General of CAC, Mr. Mahmud Bello, announced this in Abuja while...
View ArticleNEMA provides relief materials to flood victims in Kwara
The National Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday in IIorin presented relief materials worth millions of naira to flood victims in Kwara State. The materials were presented by the NEMA Zonal...
View ArticleYakowa’s, security aide’s bodies arrive Kaduna
The corpses of the late governor of Kaduna State, Mr. Patrick Yakowa, and one of his security aides, Dauda Tsoho, arrived the state capital, Kaduna, on Tuesday, amid wailing by thousands of...
View ArticleMan, 43, in court for performing sexual act on minor
A 43-year-old man, Ogundele Adeyemi, on Tuesday appeared before an Osogbo Senior Magistrates’ Court on a one-count charge of performing a sexual act on a six-year-old girl. The police prosecutor, Insp....
View ArticlePaincare offers free health care to Ojodu residents
Residents of Ojodu community were offered free medical treatment last Saturday, as Paincare Outreach, a Non Governmental Organisation, in partnership with a Redeemed Christian Church of God Parish,...
View ArticleCouncil chairmen’s silence
I am using this medium to urge the democratically elected local government chairmen across the country to air their views on the position of the Governors’ Forum on local government autonomy in the...
View ArticleProcession against corruption
I propose that a candle-light procession be held on December 31, 2012 from 12 midnight, nationwide to protest the state of the nation. Though “a mustard seed” effort, it could be arranged to cover the...
View ArticleIntegrate health insurance
Politics in Nigeria is incomparable to none. The alleged game players are going into the playing ground all because of personal gains, and greed with the ambitions of serving clannish and sectional...
View ArticleLet’s lease Nigeria
The problem with us as a country is our not being realistic, especially our leaders, because as it is now, things can only get worse because they don’t know what to do any more except to steal. So, why...
View ArticleRe: Arbitrary price adjustment
I read Osumah Jimoh’s comments on this page of The PUNCH, on November 27, 2012, on the arbitrary price adjustment of fuel pump all over the place and nothing is being done to arrest the ugly situation....
View ArticleKudos, Ogun Govt
I want to thank the Ogun State government for its effort towards the expansion of the roads at the various places in the state. I want to appeal to those affected negatively to endure it because it is...
View ArticleFG’s courageous action
Kudos to the Federal Government for having the courage at last to withdraw the only “God knows when to complete” Lagos-Ibadan Expressway contract from Bi-Courtney. Withdrawal is not only the answer but...
View ArticleNYSC, please pay me
This is appealing to the management of the National Youth Service Corps to pay my allowances from January to October 2012. I served in Plateau State with state code PL/11C/0201 and from January to...
View ArticleRepair Delta roads
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan must note that concrete infrastructural development is beyond Byzantine and Neanderthal politics. He should heed advice and wipe the tears of the vast majority of the...
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