Last week, the Federal Government announced that it would establish forty new universities to complement the existing ones. The idea, according to government sources, is to expand access to public higher education given the increasing number of new applicants seeking university education in the country.

On August 19, 1998, some individuals decided that the G-34 group which piled pressures on Nigeria’s maximum dictator, Sani Abacha, before his death, should form the nucleus of a political party. A few disagreed. But today, that party is the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP.

THE Nigerian Church appears to have flagged off a process of mobilising Nigerians for the forthcoming elections scheduled for next year, if recent statements of the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Sunday Ola Makinde, are anything to go by.

THE Federal Government and the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta have dismissed the Niger_Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, a militant group, which issued, about 48 hours ago, four conditions for cessation of renewed hostilities in the region.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), leading Nollywood stars and other dignitaries drawn from both the public and private sectors will be attending this year’s edition of the annual Association of Movie Producers AMP-EKO International Film Festival, as special guests and invitees.

Chief Ovie Omo-Agege, Delta State gubernatorial aspirant, yesterday, declared that he would contest in the upcoming gubernatorial fresh election ordered by the appeal court in the state.

NATIONAL Chairman of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has said that the party would accept defeat in a free and fair election, adding, however, that with the situation of things in the country, his party was going to form the next Federal Government.

From the Middle East to the Southern American regions of Venezuela and to the Niger Delta of Nigeria, mass deposits of oil, onshore or offshore, is the wealth that continually threatens world peace.

Former Gombe State FA chairman, Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe has said that Dr. Amos Adamu, a former executive committee member of FIFA, ought to be banned for life just as he alerted that there are many Adamus in the sports circle that need to be flushed out.

Chief Michael Johnny, a human rights activist, says recent actions of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), amount to criminality which should not be condoned. Johnny speaks against the backdrop of the bombings for which the group claimed responsibility.

The annual Ojude- Oba, usually celebrated third day after Eid-el-Kabir, took place on Thursday in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, with sons and daughters of the ancient town trooping to the headquarters of Ijebu Division to pay homage to their traditional ruler, the Awujale, Oba Sikiru Adetona.

Traffic came to a halt at Aromire, Ikeja, Lagos, as Forever Living Products Nigeria Limited, celebrated its Lagos Success Showcase where company management conferred “Managers” to numerous independent distributors across the country.

MEMBERS of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Burutu local government area, Delta State have declared their total support for Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan for the re_run election as ordered by the Appeal Court in Benin City.

The coordinators of Godswill Akpabio 2011 Campaign Organization in the 31 local government areas of Akwa Ibom State have risen from a meeting with a pledge to deliver their areas in the 2011 gubernatorial elections to Governor Godswill Obot Akpabio.

The Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Oto-Ijanikin, Lagos and the Havering College of Further and Higher Education, United Kingdom, have entered into an education partnership to develop a curriculum that will help achieve the Millennium Development Goals in education. The project, to be known as UK-Nigeria Teacher Training (UNITET), is the first of its kind in Nigeria.