With 5 African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, among others that made Africa proud in the semi-finals and Ghana flying the continent flag in the finals by wining Innovation in Community award category, Microsoft Partners in Learning has announced the winners of the 2010 Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards at just the t concluded sixth annual Worldwide Innovative Education Forum held in Cape Town, South Africa

PROJECT Engineer, Woksons International Limited, Mr. Noel Servigon, yesterday, assured that the company will complete all projects awarded to it by the Delta State government.

A youth group in Edo State, the Coalition of Edo Students Groups, CESG, has cautioned politicians in the state against making unsubstantiated claims regarding the appointment of incumbent Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. Godwin Oshodin

Recent indications appear to suggest that all is not well with the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) established in year 2000 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The agency under Dr. Magnus Kpakol is believed to be crumbling because it has been turned into a house of insidious intrigues and infighting.

ABUJA – Aminu Maigari, the Nigeria Football Federation president was excited yesterday after the Super Falcons drubbed Mali 5-0 in the team’s first game of the on_going African Women Championship in South Africa .

AS Nigerians await to know who the next head coach of the Super Eagles would be, Samson Siasia, the man most touted to be coach has vowed not to work with or under his former skipper, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi.

Seven times African champions, the Falcons of Nigeria yesterday sent a warning signal to teams campaigning in the ongoing African women championship that they were in South Africa for a mission – to reclaim the African women title they lost two years ago to Equatorial Guinea.

Nigerians have been urged to participate in the voter registration exercise, as the coming elections would largely define the future of the country. In a statement, weekend, in Port Harcourt by the Trade Union Congress, TUC, the body also urged Nigerians to vote for the candidates of their choice in the elections.

The Nigeria Football Association, NFA, have concluded moves to re-unite National Association of Nigerian Footballers, NANF, and Association of Professional Footballers of Nigeria, APFON

For former Nigeria international and candidate for Thursday’s interview for the national team coaching job, Stephen Keshi, it won’t be fair talking about other candidates, not the least, Siasia.

Even though last weekend signalled the end of October – traditionally acknowleged as “Breast Cancer Awareness month”, the message continues to be no less significant.

Former United Kingdom Treasury Secretary, Lord Paul Boateng, yesterday, said Nigeria was the key to African’s success as other countries on the continent look up to the country to demonstrate good leadership and sound economic management, especially coming out of a global recession.

Most Nigerians who seek medical treatment abroad really have no business doing so because many of the ailments being taken abroad can be successfully treated in Nigeria. This is the position of the Nigerian Cardiac Society which conducted a survey in 2009 that revealed that the country spends more money on foreign medical trips than on any other sector of the economy.

The planned re-ar-raignment of former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, suffered a setback.

BY tinkering with genetic codes of the malaria-causing Anopheles mosquito, scientists at the University of Arizona have reportedly created “malaria-proof” mosquitos by engineering a genetic “on” switch that permanently activates a malaria-destroying response in the insects.