The National Examinations Council, NECO, has released the June/July Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, SSCE, within 68 days but with another mass failure results.

Ahead of the nation’s 50th independent anniversary celebrations in the Federal Capital Territory, the Nigeria Army yesterday asked the public not to panic over movement of military equipment and deployment of of troops to Abuja from different parts of the country to take part in rehearsals for the parade and displays for the October 1 events.

*Ribadu to run on ACN platform By Emma Ujah, Daniel Idonor & Henry Umoru ABUJA—AHEAD of the primaries of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, three northern presidential aspirants; Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, General Aliyu Gusau and Dr. Bukola Saraki, exuded confidence of winning the party’s ticket. Kwara State governor and Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Dr. Bukola Saraki […]

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said he would fight against corruption with all his might, just as he urged Nigerians to join him in the crusade.

THE immediate past National Security Adviser, NSA to President Goodluck Jonathan, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, yesterday, picked his expression of interest form number 005 and nomination form number 007 at the Wadata plaza, National Secretariat of the PDP. Gusau obtained his form through proxy by one of the factional chairmen of PDP, Zamfara State, Alhaji […]

FORMER Chairman of the Financial and Economic Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, confirmed that he would run for the January 2011presidential election on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN Addressing a news conference in Abuja, he said the party which changed its name recently would be more robust with a national […]

ELECTIONS and electoral politics assume that electorates are homogenous in outlook, values and interests but are divided in their opinions on how goals commonly shared are to be actualised. Elections assure that qualitative differences have been replaced by quantitative differences on methods. Elections therefore assume the electorate are united on ends but divided on means; they assume unity of objectives and divisions on strategies and means.

As Nigeria celebrates its 50th independence anniversary, the country’s health sector has been described as inefficient. This indictment is coming on the heels of a recent United Nations report that indicates that the country may not meet the health goals of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as it is not making sufficient progress in reducing maternal deaths.

Antagonistic people, at home and in the workplace, and especially those who are manipulative and aggressive, have been discovered to possess a higher risk of stroke and heart attack due to arterial thickening, over and above traditional cardiovascular risk factors, than people who are more agreeable, straightforward and compliant.

POLITICIANS are suddenly awake. The ‘smartest beings’ in existence think it is time to say a few words to the Nigerian people. Power belongs to the people and it is time to wrest it from them democratically. The rituals of declarations, politicking and winning elections centre on politicians and their interests.