Global Environment Facility(GEF) is collaborating with Federal and State governments along with including oil/gas companies to finance Niger Delta biodiversity conservation project at the costs of $9,760,000 (about N1.4 billion).

Fondly called the Dollar Senator by his admirers and youths of the area who form the bedrock of his support base, Mr. Byuan at the moment has taken his campaigns for the PDP senatorial ticket farther than everyone expected of him and this has inadvertently given him an edge over other known big names in the race who took him for granted.

One of the challenges in tertiary education is that of inadequate space as we are not able to accommodate all the qualified candidates. We cannot ignore that fact because if you don’t give them proper alternative we are going to have miscreants in the society. So the whole range of tertiary education must be developed to make it attractive. If you cannot go to the university, you must be able to go to the polytechnic.

In the first decade after independence, there was free-flowing access to education at all levels – primary, secondary and tertiary (university specifically).

A new Executive Secretary for the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Kaduna has been approved by the Federal Government. He is Dr Masaúdu Kazaure, who until the appointment was the Rector of Hussaini Adamu Federal Polytechnic, Kazaure, Jigawa State.

TWENTY secondary school students, whose artistic works were adjudged as outstanding out of the 216 students who submitted entries for this year’s NNPC/Chevron Art competition, were honoured with plaques and mouth-watering monetary reward during the exhibition/prize-giving ceremony which held recently at Nicon Luxury Hotel, Abuja.

To save Nigeria education system from further collapse and deterioration, His eminence, Anthony Cardinal Okogie of Lagos Archdiocese has called on government at all levels to return all the mission schools in their possession back to the original owners to enable them revamp them and take them back to their former glory.

The Vice Chancellor, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko Prof. Oluwafemi Mimiko has called for a critical review of the political structure in Nigeria in order to legitimize good governance, bring down corruption, end alienation and enhance the delivery of the capacity of the Nigeria state.

Dressed in their various beautiful traditional wears, the pupil, parents, and teachers of St. Saviour school Ebute Meta couldn’t hide their excitement as they celebrate the schools’ annual cultural day on Tuesday September 28 at the school premises.

FOUR hundred and Fifty (450) Niger-Delta workers who were laid off by Global Offshore Inc. with headquarters in the United States of America, USA, last year, have protested their sack by the company without notification and payment of N900 million severance benefits and other entitlements.

From Kolade Larewaju ABEOKUTA – THE Akarigbo of Remo; Oba Michael Adeniyi Sonariwo Tuesday deplored the crisis rocking the Ogun State House of Assembly saying that the group of 15 legislators led by Speaker Tunji Egbetokun had rebuffed all his entreaties to resolve the crisis Oba Sonariwo who spoke in his palace while receiving factional […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has attributed the high cost of accommodation in the state to the unreasonable demands by estate agents from prospective tenants in form of high fees, commissions and upfront payments.

Academic activities at King of Kings Nursery and Primary School in Ago, Okota area of Lagos were, yesterday, brought to a standstill following the discovery of the lifeless body of one of its pupils inside the school’s septic tank.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, said yesterday, that any discussion about convening a Sovereign National Conference in Nigeria should be forgotten, noting it was “highly irrelevant and unnecessary at this time.”

FEDERAL Government overspent its budget estimate in July by N 143.52 billion. This was because the revenue retained by the Federal Government during the month was N185.06 billion, while total estimated expenditure was N328.58 billion.