The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has called for the resignation of Minister of Education, Professor Ruqqayatu Rufa’i, over recent dismal performance and mass failure recorded by candidates who sat for the just concluded National Examination Council, NECO, exams.

THE Kwara State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Alhaji Bolaji Abdullahi, has said that the only way out for the mass failure in our education sector is for stakeholders to agree to return to the old system, whereby no ward must be promoted to the next class unless such student passed satisfactorily.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, insisted that unless the mounting allegations of corruption levelled against the judiciary was taken very seriously, dishonest politicians might resort to using judges to alter results of the 2011 general elections in the country, even as the legal body equally faulted the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, over appointment of Supreme Court Justices.

THE joint National Assembly Committee on Constitution Review, yesterday, succumbed to INEC’s request for a three-month extension of the 2011 election timetable.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, inaugurated the Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission, EDOPADEC, describing the past commission inaugurated by Prof Osarhiemen Osunbor, as reckless and corrupt.