From east to west, north to south, evidence of the deplorable state of our education system seemed very glaring. Just like other sectors, the nation’s education standard has been on a steady decline in the past years.

Recently, Rev. Sister Mary Cecelia Ojetunde, Principal of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic College, Okokomaiko, along Badagry Expressway, spoke with Vanguard, touching on several issues relating to the educational system in Nigeria

The Commandant of Command Day Secondary School-CDSS, Ojo Lagos, Lt.Col UN Babangida, has identified untapped athletic talents in Nigerian youths as the major obstacle preventing them from attaining to the peak of the career.

A group, identified as the Democratic Militia has claimed responsibility for the arson, in the early hours of Tuesday, at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC office in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc will this month be grilled by Dutch lawmakers for the first time over its operations in the Niger Delta, reflecting growing concern in the West about oil spills in West Africa.

SOME six Governors belonging to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were, yesterday, night steeped in the midst of controversy following the allegation that each of them made mandatory donations of N500 million to the Jonathan/Sambo campaign organization.

PRESIDENTIAL Task Force on Power, PTFP, yesterday, said the process of winding-up the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, has begun and that employees in the corporate headquarters, were being transferred to the Power Ministry.

THE Police has said yesterday that they have uncovered clues that would lead to arrest of the perpetrators of the New Year eve bomb blast at the Mogadishu Barracks which killed 4 persons including a pregnant woman and injured 26 others including a 5-year old girl.

INDICATION emerged yesterday that the Nigerian High Commissioner to Australia, Professor Olu Agbi, might have been disqualified for the primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Ondo Central Senatorial election slated for tomorrow.

THE Personal Assistant to the ousted governor of Ekiti State, Engr Segun Oni, Mr Bunmi Ojo has been arrested and detained by the Ekiti State Police Command over an allegation of supplying arms to a criminal suspect.

Economic experts have condemned Friday’s Federal Government’s sharing of $1bn from the Excess Crude Account.

ANXIETY yesterday gripped the political camp of Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole following the loss of his three candidates in the Ogun Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Assembly primaries held in the state

As agitation for another northern consensus president aside Alhaji Atiku Abubakar continues to hot up in the country, National Association of Arewa Citizens Action for Change, ACAC, has disclosed its intention to choose another consensus candidate for northern Nigeria irrespective of party affiliation.

An attempted jail break was yesterday averted at the Jimeta Prison in Yola, Adamawa State capital.
The officer-in-charge of the prison, Mohammed Gwami, was attacked and slightly injured by the inmates. The timely intervention of anti-riot mobile police saved the situation.

THE popular annual carnival, usually held in pomp and pageantry in most Low Cost Housing estates in Lagos State, turned tragic on new at Jakande Estate Ilasan, in Lekki area of the state after a middleaged man was allegedly stabbed to death by some of the fun seekers on new year day.