Archives for November 6th, 2014

Avoid Pitfalls Associated With Oil, Gas Industry – CEPEJ Coordinator Tells Ghana Govt

The Government of Ghana has been implored to avoid the pitfalls associated with the oil and gas industry. Speaking today at the Koffi International Peacekeeping Training Center, Accra, Ghana, at the opening ceremony of the Peace and Environment Conference, coordinator of Center for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), Comrade Sheriff B. Mulade, said discovery of large ...

Mechanic, 26, jailed for life for raping housewife, 48

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By Our Correspondent A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba has sentenced a 26 year-old Motor Mechanic, Ekene Ndupue to life imprisonment with hard labour for raping a housewife in the bush. The court gave the verdict on recently after the accused who was standing trial on a one count charge of rape before the court ...

Nigeria Power Sector Filled With Sick, Dying Incapacitated Workers- Prof. Nebo

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The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, the abysmal performance of the power sector is due to its large number of incapacitated workers. Speaking in Abuja during the commencement of the training of 7,400 craftsmen, linesmen and electricity artisans under the National Power Sector Apprentice Scheme, Prof. Nebo said when he assumed duty as the Power ...

BILL TO END UNIVERSITY DEGREE/HND DICHOTOMY – A STEP IN THE WRONG DIRECTION

Zik Gbemre When it was reported recently that, with the second reading of a bill seeking to put Nigerian polytechnics at par with the Universities, the Nigerian Senate has intensified moves to address the age-long clamour to bridge the dichotomy between the two higher institutions, we could not help but wonder on what bases is the ...