The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), has elevated sixty-six (66) academic staff to professorial and associate professorial cadres.

Barely two months after the induction of Barrister Fred Agbeyegbe as the first grand Living Legend of the Nigerian theatre by the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (NANTAP), another Nigerian theatre icon and filmmaker , Moses Olaoluwa Olusanya Adejumo popularly known as Baba Sala was last Friday honoured with the title of Grand Living Legend of Nigerian Theatre.

BY WOLE MOSADOMI MINNA—Two people were reportedly crushed to death at Maikunkele town, headquarters of Bosso Local government area of Niger State by a Toyota Jeep, Wednesday. The duo, a motorcycle repairer and a five-year-old boy were crushed to death by unkown driver. Vanguard gathered that the mechanic who was sitting on top of his […]

Last week Friday, I was at the international wing of the Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with two other columnists. As we waited for a friend to arrive in a different flight, an item on the front page of THE Sun newspaper caught our attention: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had paid a visit to the family of Babakura Fugu, the brother-in-law of the leader of Mohammed Yusuf, the slain Boko Haram leader.

In response to a barrage of questions from journalists on the Plateau issues [SIC], Jang angrily said: “Am I God to end Jos crisis…He wondered why people were particular about insecurity in Plateau. ‘Is Plateau the only place that has security problem? Security situation is all over the country, so why are you so particular about Plateau State?”- DAILY TRUST, Wednesday, September 14, 2011.

The meeting or conference might grant the Moslem states the right to demolish Christian churches and to prevent the erection of new ones. But there, it must also grant the Christian states similar rights, to uproot existing mosques and abolish the construction of new ones in their own areas.

National Pension Commission,PenCom, has said it is taking some drastic steps to recover un-remitted pension funds from defaulting organizations, lamenting that one of the greatest challenges facing the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, in Nigeria is non-remittance of deducted funds by private sector organizations.

Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, a senior advocate, SAN is the Ondo state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice. In this interview he spoke on the National Minimum Wage Act 2010, Freedom of Information Act, call for merger of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, amnesty for Boko Haram, and other issues.

As the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, warms up for its warning strike scheduled to commence next Monday, it has appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to live up to her responsibility to avoid further disruptions in the education sector.

FORMER Managing Director of the of the defunct Nigerian National Shipping Lines (NNSL), Mr Gerald Chidi, has warned that if adequate preparation are not made to expand the current port facilities, the current trend of cargo throughput could lead to an explosion of import.