Fresh alarm over threat to marine environment
Minister of Transport, Alhaji Ibrahim Bio, is worried about the dangers posed by ballast water dumping in the Nigerian waters. He warned that the country is faced with the risk of invasion from micro-organisms in the ballast water using for balancing by ships.
Freight forwarding group warns agents against sharp practices
A group, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has warned its members operating at the Ports and Terminals Multi-Purpose Services Limited (PTML) to desist from clearing cargoes without proper Customs documentation.
Storm: NIMASA to charge Jolapamo, others for removal of vessels
Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is to charge owners of unseaworthy ships forced to the beach from their anchorage at the Lagos break waters the cost of moving them from the beach.
Jonathan: ‘Those against NASS resolutions are Nigeria’s enemies’
Engr.Solomon Edebiri is the National Chairman of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) and he is one of the young breed politicians gunning for the governorship of Edo State in 2012. Edebiri in this interview with Vanguard, commended the National Assembly for settling the constitutional crisis that arose as a result of the ill-health of President Umaru Yar’Adua.
Customs rakes in N2.04b from anti-smuggling in one month
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) through its anti-smuggling monitoring and quick response team, has raked in a total of N2, 043,260,000.00 as seizures in one month as it heightened anti-smuggling operations.
I’ll ensure UNILAG be among first 100 in the world – Sofoluwe
The 10th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, appointed on Friday, January 29, 2010, Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe has declared his own vision of the institution
Despite amnesty, fishing trawlers come under heavy attacks , Orakwusi
THE amnesty programme created by the Federal Government may have failed as the fishing trawling sub-sector of the Nigerian economy has experienced an upsurge in attacks of fishing vessels.
Cowbell : 236 candidates begin battle in Ilorin
About two hundred and thirty six candidates from sixty secondary schools in Ilorin took the Cowbell Milk sponsored National Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition, (NASSMAC) examination held at Queen Elizabeth School last Saturday in the first stage of the exercise to determine eventual winners of lucrative prizes lined up for the best successful students.
NUC set to approve Salem Varsity’s double degree programme
The one-year old Salem University, Lokoja, Kogi State is set to begin the implementation of an initiative which the University of Ibadan that came into existence in 1940s as well as the other first generation universities that were established in the ‘60s have not toyed with.
Group, Lagos Govt organise Mathematics Clinic for students
As part of efforts geared towards making students develop interest in mathematics as a way of enhancing the learning of sciences in our secondary schools as no nation can develop without mathematics, a non governmental organisation MCLILYVILLE , an education consulting firm in collaboration with Lagos State government organised a Mathematics Clinic for SS1 students in Lagos mainland last week. The clinic tagged No Maths No Vision 2020 brought together over 50 teachers and 500 students from different schools in Lagos mainland.
“Sports, extra-curricula activities make education complete “
The exposition of school children to sports and other co-curricula activities should be encouraged before a school can claim to have given the children complete and functional education.
