In a bid to move the country forward in areas of science based programmes, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Alhassan Bako Zaku, has reaffirmed the ministry’s preparedness to host the forthcoming International Junior Science Olympiad, IJSO.

By Umar Yusuf YOLA — Two model Primary Schools to be equipped with modern facilities are to be established in Adamawa State by the South Korea government under an educational partnership between that country and the state government. Already, a team of experts from South Korea are due in the state in the first week […]

By Taye Obateru Jos — Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has frowned at the continuous politicisation of religion by well-placed people in society, warning that posterity will not forgive them for instilling the wrong values in the younger generation. Receiving members of the Governing Council of the Industrial Training Fund, ITF, who paid him […]

By Wole Mosadomi MINNA — Niger State House of Assembly has passed the 2010 budget proposal into law and now awaits the assent of the state governor, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu. Governor Aliyu last December presented a budget proposal of N111, 511, 493, 214.00 made up of N37, 107,334, 820.00 as recurrent expenditure and N74, […]

President Umaru Yar’Adua arrived Abuja early this morning after three months in Saudi Arabia, where he has been undergoing treatment for a heart condition. According to a Reuters report , the President left Jeddah International Airport “at 10:22 pm (1922 GMT) alone in a plane and another plane carried Nigerian government envoys.” The air ambulance […]

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—The Imo State Government has reactivated some water schemes that had ceased to function in the last 30 or 40 years. The reactivation was carried out in the  last two and half years by the present administration. Disclosing this in an interview in Owerri, the Commissioner for Public Utilities and Rural Development, […]

By  Anayo Okoli ABEOKUTA—CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Education, Dr. Joy Emodi has challenged Nigerian universities to be proactive and make themselves relevant by proving that they are a repository of knowledge which would be employed to develop the country. Senator Emodi who spoke in Abeokuta,  while delivering a convocation lecture, noted that the universities must […]

A MEMBER representing Ndokwa East constituency, and a former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Dr. Olisa Imegwu was yesterday suspended by his colleagues for three months for going to the press with projections in 2010 budget proposals presently being considered in which he vehemently cried out over alleged marginalization of Ndokwa people.

Nsukka—Professor  Malachy Okwueze, Dean, Students Affairs of UNN, has said that the university had concluded arrangement to provide 4,000 capacity water tank in each hostel to ensure uninterrupted supply. Okwueze told newsmen yesterday in Nsukka that the measure was to address the  difficulties faced by students on campus whenever the generating set that pumped water […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU—THE National Directorate of Employment said it has registered 4,790 youths across the country for training in information and computer technology and other vocations that will make them be self-reliant. The State Coordinator of NDE, Mrs. Buchi Ojei, who made this known at the take-off of the programme in Enugu yesterday, explained […]