GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has been advised to return schools to the missionaries as a way of avoiding repeat of last year’s poor performance of students in the Senior School Certificate Examination in the future.

DR. Reuben Abati’s articles in The Guardian published especially on Fridays and Sundays are always a delight to read, digest, assimilate and kept as a veritable reference material because of their sound editorial quality, lucid packaging, presentation, objectivity and factual content.

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—Touched by the huge devastation of Haiti by the recent seven-point earthquake, the Nnamdi Azikiwe University community has collected N1.134million, an equivalent of $7,413 for Haiti earthquake victims. The Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Boniface Egboka initiated the humanitarian gesture by setting up a committee to coordinate the collection of the […]

By Tordue Salem ILORIN—University of Ilorin has been ranked by a website as the best in Nigeria.The University stands out among 104 Private, State and Federal Universities in Nigeria. A latest 2010 World Universities ranking of the universities is published by webometrics.info on its website “Ranking Web of World Universities.’’ University of Ilorin, according to […]

An Abuja-based legal practitioner, Mr Atagbua Agboje has invoked the original jurisdiction of the Federal high court sitting in Abuja, requesting it to stop Dr Jonathan Goodluck from further parading himself as Acting President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

NO fewer than five persons, mostly commuters traveling along the Enugu-Abakaliki expressway reportedly lost their lives in the renewed communal war between Ezza and Ezillo communities in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

Former member of the Senate, Senator Matthew Mbu (Jnr) has advised the National Assembly and governors of the 36 states of the Federation to compel the Federal Executive Council to declare President Umaru Yar’Adua permanently incapacitated in order to allow Dr Goodluck Jonathan to take over as substantive presiden

WITH cabinet reshuffle imminent at the Federal level, feelers from Abuja weekend revealed that ex-governors in the immediate past administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo are falling over themselves to get ministerial appointments.

…moves to end long queues By Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA —The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, says it has taken proactive measures to supply the nation with fuel as it has about 14 days of sufficiency ready to discharge, 40 days on the sea and 29 days planned for March. This, it adds, is in a […]

At least one person was feared dead and several hectares of farmland destroyed following an alleged reprisal attack on Jol village in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State by suspected Fulani herdsmen last weeken