MASTER Akinwale Oluwatola and Miss Olaitan Ibironke Lawal have emerged as the best candidates in the May/June 2010 WASSCE in Nigeria.

The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) has struck-out the name of Mrs. Cecilia Ibru, former Managing Director/Chief Executive, Oceanic Bank International Plc and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute from her Register of members.

Pandemonium broke out at the popular Ladipo market, Lagos on the eve of Christmas after over 100 hoodlums allegedly invaded the Aguiyi Ironsi International Trade Centre and unleashed terror on defenceless traders, injuring over 20 persons while shops and other makeshift stalls were looted.

Determined to have a maintain standard for operation of academic programme at the post graduate level of nation’s university education, the National Universities Commission (NUC) has developed benchmark for minimum academic standards for thirteen post graduate disciplines.

The Executive Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Raji Fasola (SAN) and the Minister of Sports, Alhaji Bolaji Abdullahi are expected to jointly unveil the Olympic Countdown Clock of the Nigeria Olympic Committee scheduled for this Saturday as part of her 60th year of Olympism and preparation towards the London 2012 Olympic Games .

The visitation panel to the Polytechnic Ibadan which was set up by Governor Abiola Ajimobi has recommended that the institution be converted to Oyo State University.

USED and new vehicles as well as Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) topped imports into the country for the month of December against the envisaged increase in the importation of rice at this time of the year.

THERE is enough evidence to empirically establish that Nigerian football is in disarray. For the first time since 1986, Nigeria has failed to qualify for the African Nations Cup finals.

TEN children were critically injured in another bomb explosion that hit an Islamic school in Sapele, Delta State, on Tuesday. It was the second of such attack in three weeks.

THE poor state of health delivery in the country came to fore once again at the 36th National Executive Council, NEC, of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, at Owerri, Imo State.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said his government will partner the Federal Government to fight against trafficking in persons and child labour.

The Federal Government plans to explore the use of dams across the country to boost the country’s electricity supply, Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe has said.

It was another day of wailing in Plateau State, yesterday, as a family of three was wiped out by gunmen, who stormed their abode at Wereng, Riyom Local Government Area, Tuesday night.

Host communities in Akwa Ibom State which make undue demands, including the award of contracts to their indigenes, from contractors before the execution of projects in their areas may lose such projects.

President of Nigerian Institute of Welding and former national chairman of Peoples Progressive Party, PPP, Chief Solomon Edebiri, yesterday, formally declared his intension to contest the 2012 governorship election in Edo State on the platform of the Coalition of Political Parties, CPP