“Therefore quality education is a fundamental requirement for national transformation. History has it that: Black people built he first civilization; Black people built the pyramid of Egypt; Black people were the first to develop Architecture, Geometry and Astrology; Great Historians, Artists and Mathematicians went to Egypt for their education from 2900BC to 600BC.”

In its bid to gear itself to match up to the task of deep offshore oil exploration two years after signing the Production Sharing Contract, PSC, ONGC Mittal Energy Limited, OMEL has set up a full-fledged establishment with human resource and state-of-the-art equipment as the company unveiled its new office and seismic data processing and interpretation centre in Lagos.

Citing technical pat terns, Citgroup Incorporation has advised investors to sell the euro against the dollar as the common European currency follows gold lower.

The Chairman, Lagos State Association of Microfinance Banks, Chief. D. O. Adenekan, has warned microfinance bank operators against the risk of embarking on hasty branch expansion programme so as to avoid over-capitalizing and over-stretching their facilities.

It is the hope of National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) that this judgement of the Supreme Court shall teach such recalcitrant governing councils still around that no matter how long, truth shall always prevail over deceit and wickedness, no matter how long the propaganda.

The Council-in-session therefore resolved to emberk on a day peaceful protest in all colleges of education and allied institutions against the refusal of government to conclude negotiation with NASU as well as to press home demands on other relevants outstanding grievances of members inn the affected institutions on Thursday June, 18, 2009.”

The era of illiquidity in the Nigerian capital market may have been over, as investors in the secondary segment of the market have jettisoned their fear of collapse of the market, staking their funds in the exchange of equities in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

Apart from going from one university to the other, CEFARRD intends to achieve meaningful orientation of university students by establishing Youth and Dreams Leadership Forum in universities which will provide a platform for opinion leaders in tutoring and mentoring of the students.

Tourism to Africa will grow by a slower 2-3 per cent in 2009 from around 47 million arrivals last year because the global economic slowdown is making travellers cut costs, a U.N. tourism body said on Tuesday. Tourism has become a key source of foreign exchange for many African nations, and in countries like Mauritius and Seychelles it makes up over 30 per cent of gross domestic product.

Nigerians across all ages, creeds, groups and both sexes have wholeheartedly embraced the on-going national ID infrastructure upgrade being implemented by the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC.