IN its effort to promote learning in Nigeria, especially in the field of Science and Technology at post-basic level, the World Bank has embarked on the provision of basic learning materials to unity schools across the nation.

The team of officers charged with the responsibility of registering federal pensioners in Imo State have been accused of leaving the state without concluding its assignment.

The Commissioner of Police, Cross River State Police Command, Mr. Ibrahim Ahmed, has raised an alarm over what he described as the rising trend of adults raping little girls in the city, calling on residents to be alert to such negative development, so as to check it.

Eight persons were, yesterday, confirmed dead, while seven have been hospitalised with various degrees of injuries from an accident that occurred along Bauchi-Jos road, Monday.

As the debate over the zoning arrangement of the PDP continues to elicit reactions across the country, a group under the aegis of Goodluck Jonathan Support Group has vowed to embark on mass rallies and sensitisation of Nigerians in order to drum up support for President Goodluck Jonathan, prelude to the 2011 elections

—Former Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Kayode Eso, SAN, said yesterday that Nigeria would only survive as a nation if the 2011 general elections were free and fair

The legal battle between Chief Mike Nwaukoni of Ugbekide, Agidiase family and Chief Collins Afuwa of Umu-Uti family, on who becomes the rightful Iyase (traditional prime minister) of Ogwashi-Uku Kingdom has been resolved by the Court of Appeal, Benin, Edo State.

NO fewer than five persons were killed in the Plateau State capital, yesterday, in another violence which was sparked off by the burial of some of those killed in last weekend’s attack on Mazah, near Jos.

A DAY after they were sworn in by Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, the Rresident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, were, yestrday, deployed to their respective states of assignment while some serving RECs were moved to new states.

AHEAD of the 2011 general elections, a political pressure group, Delta Orientation Front, DOF, has adopted Prof. Saliba Mukoro as its gubernatorial candidate in Delta State.