News Desk (Late Edition) Monday, August 25, 2008

Blackhawks Sign Aliu to 3-year contract

After being signed to an amateur tryout contract on April 4th, he made his professional debut with the AHL's Rockford IceHogs. Aliu posted two penalty minutes in two contests. MORE>>>


Nigeria’s football as metaphor of promise

No, Nigeria’s football team did not win the gold at the just-concluded Beijing Olympic Games, but they gave an undeniably golden account of themselves. At the end of their riveting decisive match with repeating champions Argentina, the Nigerians could lay a claim only to the silver... MORE>>>

ICAN rejects increase in VAT rate

Uche, who gave the advice at a lecture he delivered to participants of the Senior Executive Course 30 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, near Jos, on Monday, said that any increase from the current five per cent to the propsed 10 per cent would further impoverish Nigerians. MORE>>>

N1.5 trillion missing in NNPC account –Speaker

The annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association [NBA] opened in Abuja on Monday with a startling revelation by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, that a whooping N1.5 trillion generated as revenue from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC] in the last 10 years has not been remitted into the Federal Account Allocation Committee [FAC]. MORE>>>

Oil firms funded NDDC with N30bn in 2007 —Omiyi

OIL companies in Nigeria under the auspices of the Oil Producers Trade Section (OPTS) say they funded the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the tune of N30 billion as part of its Sustainable Development (SD) programme in the Niger Delta last year... MORE>>>