Security operatives in Bayelsa State, Wednesday, swooped on two illegal voters register at private apartments in Yenagoa, the state capital and recovered three diverted Direct Data Capturing machines.

Six years ago, when I was compulsorily retired from my place of work where I held an executive position, I decided to learn a trade, information technology, to be precise. So at the age of 49, I found myself amongst a group of prospective business centre operators under the tutelage of a fairly successful expert.

When Joseph Ajayi was arrested for breaking into someone’s apartment and making away with cash and valuables, he passion-ately pleaded to be let off the hook and at the same time swore never to indulge in such nefarious act again in his entire life. He was however, charged to court from where he was sent to jail for six months.

Enugu-based Umuchinemere Pro-credit Micro Finance Bank (UPMFB) is to partner with Enugu State government in the management of the state government’s Small and Medium Credit Fund.

The European Union will consider stockpiling raw materials and will confront any country that restricts supplies, according to a European Commission strategy document.

In fulfillment of his pledge to tackle the spate of terrorism in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday approved the appointment of Zakari Ibrahim, former director general of the National Intelligence Agency as the new coordinator anti-terrorism in the country.

On December 10, 2010, the 192 -Member States of the UNO and the UNO itself marked the 62nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Rights, UDHR, enacted on December 10, 1948.

Considering the enormous responsibility of imparting knowledge on people particularly, on young children, teachers are suppose to be the highest salary earners in the country.

ONE of the three main reasons why General (Dr) Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s longest serving military head of state came to deliver the 2nd personality Lecture of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) on Friday, January 21, 2011, was to “share experience on a specific subject matter — education – that has the capacity to advance or derail the Nigerian dream, depending on how it is handled.” The occasion was also the celebration of second year Founder’s Day of ABUAD.

Against the calls of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Staff Unions like the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) as well as the numerous protests, demonstrations and agitations by stakeholders in the education sector for the government to increase funding to education up to UNESCO recommended standard of 26% as a step towards the provision of a free and functional education at all levels, President Jonathan and the Federal Executive Council (FEC) have prepared a budget that totally relegates education to the background while allocating a larger unmerited chunk to the Presidency and the National Assembly.