Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, FUTO, Owerri, Professor Celestine Onwuliri, has expressed concern over low preference of students for agriculture.
A DELTA State University don, Dr Jackson Ireyefoju, has declared that all academic appointments in tertiary institutions must be based on merit and credibility and not on tribal sentiments, even as he tasked the five ethnic groups in the Institution to remain united.
Two men, aged 18 and 22 years respectively, were on Thursday killed by thunder, the Chairman, Goronyo Local Government Council of Sokoto State, Alhaji Zubairu Yari, has said.
THE Federal government said yesterday that slow implementation of the Millennium Development Goal, MDG, projects by many states may mar the country’s hope of achieving the objectives of the programme by the targeted year of 2015.
Lagos lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has dragged the Lekki Concession Company Ltd, LCC, and Lagos State Government, before a Lagos High Court, praying the court to restrain them from collecting toll, tariff or any such levy from him (Ebun-Olu) or any other person for the purpose of granting access to and use of any portion of the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos, which is under going expansion.
TODAY, August 24, 2010, our Comrade and friend, John Ejoha Odah marks his 50th birthday. From the toddler in Benue State, to the student union activist, he has grown to become a name in the trade union movement.
The Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union, Benin Depot, PTD, yesterday raised alarm over the presence of killer kerosene currently in circulation in the state.
GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday inaugurated an 18-man committee to look into conflicts in the concession, expansion and tolling of the Lekki-Epe Expressway
GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, has said the delay being experienced by teachers in the payment of their 27.5 per cent salary increase is to avoid industrial unrest in the state.
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has decried the growth of imbalance of information between the developed and developing countries of the world.
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday adjourned till tomorrow, for hearing in the bail application by sacked Group Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Mr Erastus Akingbola, who was arraigned recently by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 22-count charge of fraud, granting reckless credit facility, abuse of office and mismanagement of depositors’ funds.
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday signed into law the bill for a law establishing the state mortgage board aimed at making houses affordable to the masses
SOME airlines, banks situated within the new domestic terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, MMA2, Ikeja, Lagos, have threatened to relocate their operations from the facility over increase in rent by the operators, Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, for office space from N60 million to between N80 million and N100 million annually.
For several hours the combined team of security operatives prevented the students of the University of Ado Ekiti, UNAD, from disrupting a public lecture organised by the university, as the students trooped out in large numbers protesting what they described as astronomical hike in school fees.
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