The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday named Emmanuel Ikhazobor as interim administrator to oversee the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) pending the appointment of a new director general, but sources say Yvonne Fasinro, JP Morgan Chase Country Lead for Nigeria, will soon be named the substantive director general. Mrs Fasinro, a seasoned banker, has an impressive [...]
ABUJA—IT was another day of intense debate for and against whether President Goodluck Jonathan should contest in next year’s Presidential polls. This time, however, the discordant tunes came mainly from the northern part of the country. While some pro-zoning elements within the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, were wooing governors that had not made their [...]
Jobs at Chevron Nigeria Limited Chevron is one of the world’s largest integrated energy companies. Chevron Nigeria is recruiting for Business Analyst Job Title: BUSINESS ANALYST Job Reference No.: 2010-IT-07 Job Description: Collecting, understanding, and transmitting the business requirements for the project, and translating these into functional specifications and detailed test plans. Analysing and document [...]
Google Unveils Image Search Ads — Your Ads Now With Picture Thumbnail. At its search event today, Google launched a new product that’s a part of Google Images: Google Image Search Ads. Basically, this allows anyone to advertise alongside Google Image searches in a new, more visual way. “This allows you to reach hundreds of [...]
Jonathan charges Ndigbo on threat to Igbo language PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has charged people of the South East Nigeria to look inwards for solutions to perceived threats to the extinction of Igbo language in the next fifty years. President Jonathan in an address to the second international conference on the extinction of the Igbo language [...]
Nude photos: It wasn’t me, says Wande Coal Multiple award winning artiste, Wande Coal, real name Ojosipe Oluwatobi Wande Jnr, has said he was not the person in the controversial nude pictures which appeared on social networking site, Twitter, which allegedly showed him lying naked on a bed. He said there was no way the [...]
Nollywood, screen goddess, Monalisa Chinda is no doubt, a beauty to behold any day. She is rave of the moment and she is sizzling hot at this time. Lisa who broke up with her erstwhile husband barely some months ago bares her mind in this extensive interview with Aramide Pius. She spoke on her challenges [...]
Flood breaks Ogun govt house bridge, houses No fewer than three bridges and two houses collapsed in Abeokuta yesterday following a heavy downpour that lasted over two hours in Abeokuta on Thursday evening. The bridges include the Oke-igbehin, near the government house, Ibara Housing Estate in Abeokuta South Local Government and Oke-sokori in Abeokuta , [...]
There were indications on Monday that a major re-organisation in the Independent National Electoral Commission would start this week with at least seven resident and national commissioners going on terminal leave. Investigations by our correspondents showed that the new INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, as part of efforts to reposition the commission had been holding [...]
The apparent end of the troubled Progressive Peoples Alliance came on Monday as its founder and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, led other leaders of the party to join the Peoples Democratic Party. Consequently, the PDP, while welcoming Kalu, proclaimed that “the wall of Jericho has fallen.” Apparently referring to the disintegration [...]
Ogbonna Onovo, the Inspector General of Police, has ordered the deployment of special detectives from Imo and Akwa Ibom States to assist in the rescue of five journalists kidnapped on Sunday. Emmanuel Ojukwu, the spokesperson of the police, said on Monday, that the police are concerned about the abduction of the journalists, which took place [...]
Super Eagles defender Taye Taiwo could be on his way to the English Premier League as London based Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly in the lead to secure his signature. Taiwo was recently linked with a move to Atletico Madrid but the club the Spanish Primera Division outfit have not been able to tender an acceptable [...]
That which she declined to divulge in an interview she granted this Vanguard’s Lolade Sowoolu has been brought to the open. MTV’s Nigerian VJ, Cynthia Okpala is now officially engaged to good-looking hubby, Ozoemena Mbanefo. The pair are both members of the Dominion City church located on 11/13 Jumat Olukoya street, Ogudu, Ojota, Lagos. Ozoemena [...]
NUJ boss, 3 others kidnapped UMUAHIA— FOUR executive committee members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, were, yesterday, abducted by kidnappers who attacked them at Umuafouka junction near Ukwakiri in Obingwa Local Government Council of Abia State. Those kidnapped include, Chairman Lagos State Council of NUJ, Mr. Wahab Oba, Secretary of Zone D, Adolphus [...]
Alumni Association of Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, is to raise N250 million for the construction of a 500-seater lecture theatre. To ensure the realisation of the project, the alumni has constituted a committee to raise funds for the project. Chairman/Coordinator of the Committee, Chief Chris Orode, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos, said the [...]
Let’s start rebuilding now – Supporters club Following President Goodluck Jonathan’s reversal of the two year ban on the national teams, the Nigerian Football Supporters Club yesterday took a retrospective look at football in the country and concluded that it was time to rebuild the Eagles. Speaking at the international secretariat of the club in [...]
This is to inform all UTME Candidates who applied for admission into First Degree programmes of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike and scored 180 and above that the Post-UTME screening exercise for the 2010/2011 admission into the University will hold at the University Campus as follows: DAY I: Thursday 22nd July, 2010: 1. College [...]
Chukwu, Kojo thumb up for Jonathan Former coach of the national team, Christian Chukwu has welcomed the unbanning of the Eagles by President Goodluck Jonathan and said it was good news to all Nigerians and particularly, the youth whose careers have been saved. Speaking from his Enugu base on telephone, the former skipper of the [...]
China’s football team did not make it to the World Cup this year, but that does not mean the country’s presence has not been felt: The Asian giant has cornered the market on perhaps the most unforgettable off-field aspect of the World Cup — the vuvuzela. Ninety percent of the vuvuzelas, the plastic South African [...]
