Acting Provost of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, represented by Dr. V. A. Asuru suggested at a symposium, under the auspices of the state Ministry of Education, that the high level of the practice was debasing the credibility of certificates in the land.

By Tony Ubani NIGERIA Football Federation, NFF, put a final seal on its representatives in the Confederations Cup yesterday in the executive chamber of the “Lugard House” in Lokoja when it declared that there is no provisions for failure in CAF for the Confederations Cup. The declaration meant that the football house has closed debates […]

A socio-cultural organisation in Edo State, the Gia Da N’Edo Movement, Nigeria, has lamented what it described as marginalisa-tion of Binis in the Edo South Senatorial District of the state in spite of the fact that it constitutes 54 per cent of the population in the state.

•As NFF holds AGA in Lokoja NFF President Sani Lulu Abdullahi received a rousing home-coming on Monday as the Executive Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, described him as one of the brightest shining lights of the “Confluence State”. Speaking inside the executive chamber of the “Lugard House”, Governor Idris told a gathering of […]

Jos – The Post-UME screening of candidates into the University of Jos began yesterday in spite of a resolution by the institution’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to postpone the exercise. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sonni Tyoden, told newsmen that the exercise, being conducted by the management and some academic staff in conjunction with a […]

By Fidelis Ebu ABUJA –  John Lucas,the American coach recently contracted to handle the national basketball teams, has declared that he was yet to see the likes of Hakeem Olajuwon in the team he assembled for the forthcoming African Nations Cup Championship in Libya. While responding to questions shortly before he led the team to […]

By Yemie Adeoye ABUJA – FOLLOWING agitations by players and stakeholders in the oil and gas industry for a total review of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the Federal Government has appealed to players in the upstream arm of the Oil and Gas industry to particpate in the formation and enactment of the PIB, currently […]

…raise alarm over porous border By Tordue Salem ABUJA — The House of Representatives is to raise an investigative panel to look into alleged breaches of the expatriate quota by the Ministry of Interior for foreign workers in the petroleum and other sectors of the economy. The Chairman, House Committee on Interior, Rep. Jerimon Manwe […]

By Isiaka Oyibo LOKOJA — ONE person identified as Surage was, yesterday, stabbed to death and ten others badly injured when some youths of Kabawa engaged themselves in a free-for-all fight. During the mayhem at the Maraba area of Lokoja metropolis, guns, machetes, cudgels, broken bottles and other dangerous weapons were freely used forcing motorists […]

Kafur (Katsina)  -  The Kafur Local Council in Katsina State has suspended an immunisation officer and his subordinates for allegedly compiling false report on immunisation exercise in Masari village. Director of Health in the council, Alhaji Shuaibu Garba, who disclosed this yesterday while supervising the on-going exercise in Masari village, said the doctored report was […]