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Nigeria Women In Nigeria Politics Should Better Lot Of The People
Number of View: 2145‘Women In Politics Should Better Lot Of The People’ Joy Odike first tasted governance as the chairperson, Caretaker Committee in Oji River Local Government Area, Enugu State. Though her tenure terminated after four months, she succeeded in bringing about some changes in the area. Her short administration is mostly remembered for lighting [...]
Nigerians In The Diaspora, Others Query Spending and Earnings by Nigeria Lawmakers
Number of View: 3943US Spends Less Than 1% Of Fed Expenditure On Legislators ALTHOUGH Nigeria spends about 25 per cent of its national expenditure on the National Assembly, official sources within the US government has put the cost of running the entire US congress, including salaries of senators and representatives, at 0.2 per cent of [...]
Nigeria Textile Industry -Exploring business opportunities in garment making in Nigeria
Number of View: 6255The importance of clothing to humanity has been fundamental, from time immemorial till now. In the first place, clothing helps to protect humanity against cold, dirt and diseases. It also enhances safety when people are engaged in hazardous activities, such as working and cooking, by providing a barrier between the skin and [...]
Credible Election in Nigeria – Why Jonathan insists on credible poll
Number of View: 2175THE Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Research, Documentation and Strategy, Mr. Oronto Douglas, has said that since the international community was interested in how the country would conduct its elections, the President wanted everything about the 2011 poll done according to the law. Speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on [...]
How Much Does a Nigerian Senator and House of Rep. Earns Monthly?
Number of View: 3026Monthly pay: Nigeria Senators earn N15.18m each, Reps N10.59m – Investigation EACH senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria earns N15.18m in salaries and allowances monthly, just as each member of the House of Representatives takes home N10.59m a month, investigation has revealed. For the Senate, each senator (excluding the Senate President [...]
WikiLeaks loses PayPal revenue service
Number of View: 796ikiLeaks, beset by technical problems regarding its website and under fire from governments worldwide, has now lost a major revenue source, Cable News Network reports. Payment service provider PayPal cut WikiLeaks‘ online donation account Friday. WikiLeaks violated its acceptable use policy, ”which states that our payment service cannot be used for any [...]
Is this a Case of Extrajudicial Killing in Nigeria? – Protests as DPO kills man in Lagos
Number of View: 943There was a pandemonium in Onipanu area of Lagos State on Sunday morning as aggrieved youths went on the rampage to protest the killing of a man, identified as Femi Best by a police officer suspected to be a Divisional Police Officer in charge of a nearby division. PUNCH METRO learnt that [...]
Why Nigeria National Health Insurance Scheme NHIS does not cover some ailments
Number of View: 2815The South-West Coordinator of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Mr. Taiye Adeleye, has said that the scheme does not provide treatment for patients needing renal dialysis, organ transplants, heart surgery and other ailments on its exclusion list because they are very expensive to manage. Adeleye said this in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State on [...]
WikiLeaks Exploits Weaknesses in Technology, Human Nature
Number of View: 262Historians, anti-war activists and armchair observers of human nature have had plenty to mull over in recent years thanks to the online group WikiLeaks. The Web site has published hundreds of thousands of stolen U.S. military and diplomatic documents from as recently as February of this year and as far back as [...]
Corruption in Nigeria Political Party, PPP – PPP members accuse leadership of corruption
Number of View: 2580Aggrieved members of the Peoples Progressive Party, PPP, have protested to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over untoward activities of the current leadership of the party, who they accused of gross indiscipline and illegal diversion of party’s funds into personal use. The aggrieved party members, made up of 43 National Executive [...]
Nigeria Medical Council bars UNIBEN, Igbinedion varsity graduates from association
Number of View: 1748Worried by increasing number of quack doctors and dentist in the country, the Chairman, Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Dr Roger Makanjuola, has announced the suspension of membership of graduates of medical departments of the University of Benin and Igbinedion University, Okada, citing poor learning infrastructures and overcrowding . He also [...]
United Nations team to visit Nigeria on arms inspection
Number of View: 2680THE United Nations (UN) is sending a six-man team to Nigeria to inspect the arms shipped from Iran and intercepted last month in Lagos, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. A source, who pleaded anonymity, told NAN in Abuja on Sunday that the UN team would also meet with top government [...]
