Some officials of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have conspired with members across the country to encourage truancy, Maharazu Ismail Tsiga, director general of the NYSC, said yesterday. Mr. Tsiga spoke during a course programme on zonal inspectors’ development at the NYSC orientation camp, in Keffi, Nasarawa State. He said the officials were helping [...]
A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy. Vascular surgeon David Nott helped the 16-year-old while working 24-hour shifts with medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Rutshuru. The boy’s left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and [...]
Scores of people have been killed by flood in several states of northern Nigeria where unusually heavy rains have swollen rivers and streams across the region in the last two weeks. Whole villages and farmlands in Sokoto, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara and Kebbi states have been submerged. Last Tuesday, an executive member of the People’s [...]
Elections to the office of the president will hold January 15 next year, NEXT has been informed. The date is historical because it was on the same date that the military truncated the nation’s first democratic experiment after the 1960 independence. The military toppled the government of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa on January 15, [...]
A member of the Delta State House of Assembly, Abel Oshevire, was reportedly kidnapped by unknown persons in Benin, Edo, at about 11.45am on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the incident was said to have taken place in the premises of World Paradise Church located around Agbor motor park, on the Benin-Asaba [...]
No fewer than 10,000 packets of condoms are distributed monthly to the Special Task Force (STF) personnel charged with ensuring security in Jos since the outbreak of the 2010 crisis. Zanna Umar, the Director, Volunteers for Sustainable Development, a Jos-based NGO, said this in Jos on Tuesday at a workshop on mitigating the effects of [...]
A member of the Delta State House of Assembly, Abel Oshevire, was reportedly kidnapped by unknown persons in Benin, Edo, at about 11.45am on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the incident was said to have taken place in the premises of World Paradise Church located around Agbor motor park, on the Benin-Asaba [...]
Sexy and beautiful actress, Oge Okoye has just been delivered of a bundle of joy, a girl, three days ago at St Elizabeth Hospital, London. The joyous mother, information from London has it, has been glorifying God for making her a ‘complete mother’-she now has a boy and a girl. The Nollywood versatile actress, who [...]
THE Federal Government, yesterday, said it was ready to complete the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, as part of efforts to revamp the company and enable it to provide efficient service to consumers. The Minister of State for Power, Arc. Nuhu Sombo Wya, said at a workshop on the Review of [...]
ABUJA—THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may release the timetable for 2011 elections this week following the signing of Electoral Act by President Goodluck Jonathan last Friday. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, and his national commissioners were, yesterday, putting finishing touches to the time table which a source at the [...]
A , Mr. Benard Alifi has been sentenced to death by hanging by a High Court sitting in Abakaliki for murder and other criminal count charge levelled against him. Delivering the judgment, Justice Obande Ogbuinya of court five said the prosecution, having proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, he pronounced the accused guilty of the [...]
Master Ogbobe Robinson Nnamdi, an eight-year old boy with a heart disease, wears a smile that conceals the inner anguish of his soul. Since his affliction started last year, he has put up an appreciable resistance against his health challenges. Born in February 2002 to Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Ogbobe in Ugbene Ajima, Uzo-Uwani LGA, [...]
Anniversaries worldwide are times to look backwards, meditate, re-strategize and plan ahead. With only 33 days to our country’s 50th anniversary, Coca-Cola Nigeria envisaged a blissful new Nigeria. The world’s largest beverage company stretched its ‘Open Happiness’ campaign to include a consumer promo designed to splash over N300 million on Nigerians as part of its [...]
Professor Chukwuemeka Ike, was the first Nigerian Registrar of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), which he joined in the 70s when he finished his 10 months assignment as the first Vice Chancellor of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, after the civil war. While in WAEC, he broke a record as the first Registrar of WAEC [...]
Kogi State Governor, Ibrahim Idris has debunked the claims by a national newspaper (not Daily Sun) in its last Sunday edition that policemen searched his Asokoro, Abuja, private residence where they allegedly recovered dollar-printing machine and substances suspected to be cocaine. A visibly enraged Idris said the report was one of the several antics of [...]
THE stir caused by a female student who allegedly preached against Islam during a Jumat service in the University of Ibadan mosque, has led to the paralysis of all academic and commercial activities in the institution. A religious crisis was averted on Sunday by the efforts of the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Olufemi [...]
LAGOS—A MAN, his wife, his three children and his mother were said to be among scores of lives that perished, weekend, in a multiple auto crash that occurred along Lagos-Ibadan Express road. A pregnant woman and her two children were also among those burnt beyond recognition in the accident even as unconfirmed report put the [...]
FOLLOWING his resolve to fight poverty in the state, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, launched Poverty Eradication Lottery for the people of the state, to empower unemployed youths and artisans. The lottery which is being organised by a Lagos based firm, Absolute Direct Communication Ltd, in collaboration with the state government, attracted market women, artisans and [...]
