PROPRIETORS, parents,students and other stakeholders have been complaining against NECO results for this year’s Junior School Certificate Examination (JSCE/Basic).
A FEDERAL High Court in Ibadan has restrained the National Universities Commission, NUC from going back on its initial accreditation of Law programme of a private university, Lead City University, Ibadan.
LAST Tuesday Vanguard Metro, VM, ran the story of a 95-year-old man who was killed by some members of the Ikpe Ikot Nkon community of Akwa Ibom State for being a wizard. The story also made a passing reference to the ordeal of some children either suspected of being members of witchcraft cult or afflicted by ailments associated with witches.
Former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Timi Alaibe, should be given a waiver by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as it was proper for him to run on the platform of the party which he helped built. This was the opinion of a Niger Delta activist, Mr. Frank Akiefa, who commended Alaibe for returning to PDP.
AHEAD of the February 11, 2012 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primaries in Bayelsa State, one of the governorship aspirants, Mr. Henry Dickson, a House of Representatives member, representing Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal Constituency, has called for a level playing field for all candidates.
VICE-CHANCELLOR of Joseph Ayo Babalola University, JABU, Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Professor Sola Fajana, has called for a new pension law to take care of workers in the informal sector of the Nigerian economy.
LOOKING ahead of what the future world holds for education and entrepreneurship, the Administrator, Grace Schools, Gbagada, Mrs Adetokunbo Edun has identified China as one of the leading economic nations of the world that has the potential of become the world power in the nearest future.
Ahead of presidential election petition tribunal judgment which is expected to be delivered November 4 in line with the provision of the electoral act 2010 as amended, penultimate week we began the chronicle of the road to the tribunal by the Congress for progressive change CPC, which is challenging president Goodluck Jonathan victory in the April presidential poll’s. As counsel on both sides are expected to adopt their written addresses today, we continue with the legal fire works that took place at the tribunal.
The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) is proposing a bill to amend the constitution that would incorporate amendments to the existing revenue sharing formula.
The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abakaliki, Wednesday, upheld the election of Chief Paulinus Igwe-Nwagu as senator representing Ebonyi Central senatorial zone on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
COME weekend, Lagos-based journalist and performance poet, Akeem Lasisi, will play the role of lead performer/chanter and producer of WONDERLAND(eleleture)an album of musical poetry, in the public presentation of the album at the 1960 Hotel, Eagles Park, Ikeja, Lagos.
MANAGING Director of Standard Alliance Insurance, Mr. Tom Imokhai, has said that the menace of fake marine insurance certificates is beginning to take its toll on both the maritime and insurance industries.
ANGLICAN Bishop of Amichi Diocese, Rt. Rev. Ephraim Ikeakor, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to suspend the planned removal of fuel subsidy, warning that the move was a time bomb waiting to explode.
About 1000 Nigerian Air Force personnel are to compete in 22 sporting events at the 7th edition of the Nigeria Air Force Games to take place in Calabar in Cross River State and Uyo in Akwa Ibom State from October 29 to November 5, 2011.
News
- UN split on Syria action even as killings spike
- Group wades into Anambra doctors’ strike
- Fuel subsidy: Belgore committee begins sitting
- Tough one for Nyako as embittered Speaker takes over in Adamawa
- 25 Boko Haram members nabbed in Enugu
- Fashola gives N17m to Ikeja bomb blast families
- Wamakko’s sack : Mixed reactions greet in Sokoto



