The new Senior Secondary School Education Curriculum (SSEC) whose implementation is to commence from September 2011 has thrown up a big challenge to teacher educators in the nation’s Colleges of Education, Polytechnics and Universities as they have to review their teacher preparation programmes in the context of knowledge of subject matter, teaching skills and competencies.

By Godfrey Bivbere ABUJA—TRANSPORT Minister, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, has said the ministry will soon embark on performance audit of activities of concessionaires to determine their efficiency after four years of their operations, even as the minister requested both the terminal operators and the clearing agents to forward position papers to the ministry. The minister who […]

DEPUTY Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bayero Nafada, who is also Chairman of the ad-hoc Committee of the House of Representatives on Review of the 1999 Constitution, yesterday, said that the National Assembly would create 10 new states, with five from the North and five from the South, by next year.

President Jonathan was the proverbial breath of fresh air to Nigerians who listened to him in Washington DC two weeks ago. Perhaps that hapless country may yet go somewhere with the kind of optimism which Jonathan exudes and projects. Did he recently say that money for Nigerian leadership echelon who go overseas for medical attention will no longer be accepted.

ACTING President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has been urged by Itsekiri youths to prevail on the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Peter Godsday Orubebe, from removing the proposed 20 housing units from Ode-Itsekiri to Oporaza.

Bayelsa State Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Sylva Opuala-Charles, said the state government resources this fiscal year would be directed at existing viable ongoing projects that are targeted at achieving the developmental priorities of the state.

ACTING President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, yesterday, ordered the immediate sack of the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Maurice Iwu.

FOR some time now, organised labour and other interested parties have been expressed misgivings over the conduct and activities of third party employers, generally referred to as ‘Labour contractors’. Though the Ministry of Labour and Productivity, in a bid to standardize their operations, is issuing guidelines and permit for their operations.

IT was with utmost pride and satisfaction that we received the news that Nigeria ’s new Minister of Finance, Mr Olusegun Aganga, had been elected as the Chairman of the Board of the Bretton-Woods Institutes, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), after a keen contest.

A law suit filed by former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Farouk Aliyu, before an Abuja Federal High Court, seeking to compel the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, to pass a fresh resolution declaring President Umaru Yar’Adua unfit to govern on account of his failing health, yesterday, suffered a fresh setback.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria ( TUC ) and its affiliate, Precision, Electrical and Related Equipment Senior Staff Association, PERESSA and Siemens Limited Nigeria, have settled their lingering dispute over the termination of the appointment of a official of Simens, Mr. Moses Onibudo, and other issues.

By Tony Edike ENUGU—RESIDENTS of the academic town of Nsukka, Enugu State were gripped by fear, yesterday, following alleged reports that a gang of armed robbers planned to launch another deadly attack on some banks in the town. All the banks operating in the town remained closed throughout yesterday for fear of being attacked by […]

A former militant commander with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, in Bayelsa State, Mr. Eris Paul, popularly known as ‘Commander’ Ogunboss, has called on the Presidency to probe alleged arrest and detention of 54 ex-militant leaders and youths in Rivers State.

AHMAD Sani Yerima is easily the strangest and possibly most dangerous creature ever to emerge on the Nigerian political scene. He was the Governor of Zamfara State for eight long years and now occupies a prestigious seat in the Nigerian Senate. If his gamble had worked, he would have been the president of Nigeria, since he vied for that office in 2007 even though he could not make it through the presidential primaries of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP).

Enugu—Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, has urged the new management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to reopen its depots in the South East that were shut four years ago. Mr Chukwudi Ezinwa, Enugu State Chairman of IPMAN told newsmen, yesterday in Enugu that this would help in sustaining the availability of […]