For the uninitiated, there was very little to chose between the Flying Eagles of Nigeria and their French counterparts Sunday night when they clashed in the quarterfinal of the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia.

The Ukrainian women’s group, Femen, took its distinctive brand of protest to the trial of ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday when two activists climbed atop a police wagon outside the court and bared their breasts.

Secondary school mathematics teachers have attributed the failure in the subject among students to the lack of concentration and laziness.

An Islamic Scholar and University of Ilorin Lecturer, Dr Ibraheem Abikan, has disclosed that Islamic banking was first licenced in the South-West zone in 1963.

The Cross River State Government has spent about N393 million on the maintenance of roads across the Southern Senatorial district of the state.

By Adekunle Aliyu Government workers in Enugu State took to the streets, Tuseday, to press home their demamd for N18,000 minimum wage The protesting workers barricaded the busy Okpara Avenue there by hindering  traffic flow. More details soon

PROTESTING students of tertiary institutions in Osun, yesterday crippled economic and other activities in Osogbo, over continued closure of their schools due to the ongoing strike by the academic and non-academic staff of their institutions.

LAST week, several national papers lamented the abysmal performance of Nigerian candidates who sat for the 2011 West African Secondary School Certificate Examination. According to reports, of the 1.5 million candidates who sat for the May/June examination, only 472,906, or a disappointing 31 percent, obtained five credits and above in the subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

FORMER presidential candidate of Fresh Party of Nigeria, Rev. Chris Okotie, yesterday, joined other well-wishers in congratulating former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, on his 70th birthday, tomorrow.

A body of lawyers under the aegis of Justice and Integrity Group, JIG, yesterday, urged the embattled President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, to resign his position forthwith, saying it was the only way to save the judiciary from further public embarrassment.