FAAN gets 48-hour ultimatum on fuel tankers’ relocation

The Federal Government on Friday issued a 48- hour ultimatum to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to relocate fuel tankers out of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, citing concern over safety and security. To ensure compliance, all security agencies attached to the MMIA, including State Security Services, Nigerian Air Force, and others have been mobilised to ensure the fuel tankers are moved out of the airport...

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Jonathan appoints inventor as entrepreneurship Ambassador

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday appointed a United Stated-based Nigerian, Jessica Mathews, who invented energy generating football and skipping rope as Entrepreneurship Ambassador. The Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the football and skipping rope was demonstrated to President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said: “The product is actually...

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Strike: ‘ASUU will wait till FG gets money’

The Academic Staff Union of Universities will sustain its ongoing strike until the Federal Government gets the money to meet its demands, an ex-officio member has said. The immediate past chairman of the union at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Prof. Aloysius Okolie, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nsukka, Enugu State on Friday that the government should not allow a total collapse of tertiary education in the country. Okolie said...

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WWE Summerslam: Read our recap of the 2012 event in Los Angeles

SummerSlam come your way in the early hours of Monday morning, live on Sky Sports Box Office and Sky Sports HD Box Office. There are some cracking encounters in the pipeline with Daniel Bryan battling WWE Champion John Cena, CM Punk locking horns with Brock Lesnar, and Cody Rhodes combatting Damien Sandow. But Summerslam 2013 has a lot to live up to following the 2012 version, which was full of memorable moments, eye-catching bouts and successful...

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Egypt declares national emergency

Egypt has declared a month-long state of emergency after scores of people were killed when security forces stormed protest camps in Cairo. The camps had been occupied by supporters of former president Mohammed Morsi, who was deposed in early July. State media say the security forces are now in control of the two main camps. The health ministry says 149 people were killed – but the Muslim Brotherhood, which was behind the protests, says more...

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