Okonjo-Iweala Named Among 100 Top Global Thinkers

   Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister for the Economy and Minister of Financehas been named one of 100 Global Thinkers by the iconic Washington-based journal, Foreign Policy magazine.

Mr. Paul Nwabuikwu, Special Assistant on Communication to the minister, said Okonjo-Iweala was honoured along with a group of distinguished activists, political leaders, diplomats and entrepreneurs from across the world.

Adele's Chart-Topping Release 21 Becomes Biggest-Selling Album of the Century

      Adele I want to start by saying that your Album has made a lot of good impressions.

The singer - recovering from an operation to save her voice - released her second album just 10 months ago, making the feat even more impressive.

It overtook the late Amy Winehouse's Back To Black, which landed the record a little over three months ago.

The new record of 3.4 million sales was confirmed yesterday by the Official Charts Company.

Amy's album took five years to get to its present 3.3 million sales level, and its success was partly due to the further sales boost following her death in July.

ASUU Strike begins on midnight Sunday!

  ASUU embarks on  strike following the government refusal to sign the union agreement of 2009.       According to the punch report government had promised to honour the agreement reached two years ago on the adequate funding of the universities and other sundry issues after a meeting with ASUU in September.
A Memorandum of Understanding by both parties was signed at the meeting with the Ministers of Education and Labour and Productivity in attendance.
But ASUU President, Prof.Ukachukwu Awuzie, said in Port Harcourt on Sunday, that the government had deliberately refused to honour the agreement.
Awuzie regretted that rather than executing the content of the accord, the government sacked the Implementation Monitoring Committee that served as the forum for a dialogue with ASUU on the dispute.
He wondered why the government did not make any move to implement the core components of the agreement, even when the union granted its (government) request for a two-month grace to begin the implementation process.

late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu Burial Funeral Announced!

  The report by south east governors yesterday shows that the late Ojukwu will be buried in his home tome Nnewi country home in Anambra State next February.
   The SUN reported that the date was announced after the meeting of Chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum and Anambra State Governor Peter Obi,which lasted for over two hours at the Enugu State Government House, The source says that the remains would be brought to Enugu on February 2, 2012 where all ceremonies lined up to bid him farewell would take place after which the corpse would be moved to Nnewi and handed over to Ojukwu’s kinsmen for burial.

Chima Anthony Akpalaba,final year Law student sentenced to 19 years imprisonment for kidnapping

  Chima Anthony Akpalaba, a final year Law student of the University of Benin has been sentenced to 19 years imprisonment for kidnapping a seven-year-old girl. Justice T. C. Makwe of the Delta State High Court handed down the sentence in Asaba.

  The sun reported that the convict had been standing trial since 2009 on a five-count charge of kidnapping, hails from Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. He committed the offence on February 9, 2009 at Infant Jesus Road, Asaba.