How many Facebook friends is too many? The Times | It's the internet world now, so you can speak to anyone anywhere in the world - right? Blog away, and every Tom, Dick and Harriet from Anchorage to Cape Town can admire your wit, marvel at your wisdom and might even offer a comment in return. Sign them up to your Facebook site, where you can now b...
FG Finally Approves Fuel Importation by Marketers This Day Hope for an enduring solution to the protracted fuel crisis in the country has been rekindled as the Federal Government has released the First Quarter 2010 Import Permit for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol. | This is coming as Afr...
Tinubu: Tomorrow’s Cabinet Meeting, Our Defining Moment This Day Former Governor of Lagos State Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday asked the Executive Council of the Federation (ExCof) to accept Vice-president Goodluck Jonathan as acting president, saying tomorrow’s meeting would be a defining moment for the countr...
FG, Gas Producers Meet over Power Generation Slump This Day In a bid to arrest the slump in the country's power generation, the federal government yesterday met with chief executives of oil and gas companies in Abuja to see how to resolve the gas supply crisis which has led to the shutting down of power gener...
NITEL: Globacom, MTN Pre-Qualified for Financial Bid This Day The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) said yesterday that it would open financial bids for the privatisation of Nigerian Telecommunications Plc (NITEL) and its mobile arm, M-tel, on February 16, 2010. | This followed the closure of...
Safety Regulations: NCAA Threatens to Withdraw Airlines’ Licences This Day The Federal Government has said that it would withdraw the operating licence of airlines, which do not comply with new security regulations introduced to improve air safety at the Nigerian airports and reiterated that the 100 per cent compliance must...
Okonjo-Iweala: Nigeria Needs Transformational Leaders This Day World Bank Managing Director, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has stated that Nigeria must de-emphasise transactional leadership and embrace transformational leaders if the country must reap the dividends of democracy and tow the right path to e...
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NIGERIA: Timeline of recent unrest in Niger Delta region IRINnews web | ABUJA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) - Despite abundant oil wealth in the Niger Delta region in southeast Nigeria, residents lack basic services including electricity, piped water, ...
Ill leader, violence and oil woes plague Nigeria The News & Observer | LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's president has been away ill for more than two months. A militant group vows to renew its war against the oil industry. And Muslim-Christian violence h...
HiTV on vertical integration, buys into Tinapa to grow brand Business Day Online HiTV, monopoly breaker on pay TV in Nigeria, is set to change the face of media entertainment in Africa with deeper bouquets outside football. Besides growing the brand, the organisation believes the broadened scope of the business using football as ...
Apathy towards maths finds cure in ‘mental arithmetic’ Business Day Online Sam Ale, director-general, National Mathematical Centre (NMC), Abuja, and a professor of mathematics, may have inadvertently dredged up a fundamental issue when he recommended - at the official flag-off this year’s Cowbell National Secondary School...
2010 Budget: Many steps in the wrong direction Business Day Online The national appropriation law of any country is second only to the constitution which has been regarded as the grund norm in Nigeria. The budget document as the next most important Act of parliament after the constitution, perhaps is an issue many N...
‘US envoy’s visit to Nigeria a unique access to Obama’s ears’ Business Day Online •To improve relations with Nigeria | The visit to Nigeria of US Assistant Secretary of State, Johnnie Carson, provides Nigeria with perhaps a unique access to President Barack Obama’s ears, according to a former senior Nigerian diplomat who once ...
Lagos engages consultants to tackle e-waste menace Business Day Online In a strategic attempt to contain the rising trend of indiscriminate disposal of electronic wastes especially at dumpsites and some established electronic markets in the state, the Lagos State government through the Lagos State Environmental Agency (...
Obama adviser: Stop criticizing anti-terror effort The News & Observer | WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that lawmakers and others are using national security to score political points and defended the handling of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner. | Deputy national security adviser John Brennan complained that politicians, many of them Republicans, ...
NIGERIA: Timeline of recent unrest in Niger Delta region IRINnews web | ABUJA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) - Despite abundant oil wealth in the Niger Delta region in southeast Nigeria, residents lack basic services including electricity, piped water, health clinics and schools. The region has seen decades of unrest stemming mostly from local militants' uprisings over what they call neglect of the moneymaking region. |...
