FORMER Nigerian Ambassador to Ethiopia and founder, African Refugee Foundation, AREF, Chief Segun Olusola has stressed the need for an immediate review of the nation’s educational system in order to address the decay in the sector.

Alhaji Lateef Sofolahan, an alleged informant to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who is presently standing trial alongside Major Hamza al-Mustapha, over the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, wife of Chief M.K.O. Abiola, in 1996, yesterday, denied ever stepping into Abiola’s house while he worked as protocol officer with the Abiola’s presidential campaign organisation, ‘Hope 93’.

First Bank of Nigeria Plc has been named the best telecoms financing bank in Nigeria at the 2011 edition of the Nigerian telecoms awards by Logica Media Group.

Eighteen senior secondary schools selected from the six geo-political zones of the country based on outstanding WAEC/NECO performance are to participate in the maiden National High Schools Quiz Championship (NHSQC). Both private and public schools are involved in the competition termed as “The Champs.”

LAWYERS and licensed Customs agents yesterday besieged the office of the Federal Operations Unit ( F . O .U ) of the Nigeria Customs Service to effect the bail of their clients,friends and family members who who were arrested along with touts raided by the officers of the service last in Apapa.

The election of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy President of the Senate as Speaker of the ECOWAS parliament at the same time Nigeria’s President Jonathan is chairman of the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government gives Nigeria an opportunity to consolidate its dominance of the sub-region

A line in the Nigerian national anthem reads:“the labours of our Heroes past shall never be in vain.”As a manifestation of this prayerful wish, the family of one of the first generation and greatest artists of the Nigerian art, late Prof. Ben Chukwukadibia Enwonwu in honour of the indelible archievements left by the accomplished artist of pioneer contemporary art in Nigeria, established the Omenka Gallery as a place of research, exhibition and production of knowledge.

In a bid to curb the rate of unemployment among youth in the country, the National Association of Business Administration and Management, NABAMS, Lagos City Polytechnic, has disclosed that the association is doing everything possible to inculcate in the students the need to become great entrepreneurs as well as job creators instead of job seekers.

The third annual Achebe Colloquium on Africa will be held at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA from 3-4 December, 2011.

The trade between Nigeria and India has hit $14.628 billion in March 2011, representing a growth of over 71 per cent compared to that of the previous year, according to the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Mahesh Sachdev.