Adding its weight behind revamping the education sector, Incubator Africa Limited in collaboration with EduCluster Finland have organised a 2-Day learning event to empower key decision makers in the sector on practical steps to raising standards and student performance in the Nigerian educational system.

A front row seat,watching the best of life unfold in a time when life seemed so easy is a gift. Maybe its nostalgia that is romanticising the past and making it seem that the good old days were much better than the present. I was at a dinner a few days ago and some youngsters came to do a dance interpretation of Fela’s “Suffering and Smiling”.

The Pastor in charge of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA), Kafanchan Branch, Pastor Wakili Kadima has called on Nigerians to always seek God’s intervention to ensure peace and unity of the country.

The major focus of the GCPP, according to Dr. Lartey, is African liberation and economic improvement of Ghanaians and he intends to achieve this by focusing on three major areas – energy, agriculture and job creation “The strategy of the GCPP is not about political power but rather economic change,” he said.

Having been at Patricks since 2006, I would say it’s been very fascinating working with children with special needs, especially those with autism. I never knew anything about Autism even though I knew about children with Asperger syndrome, until I got an appointment with Patricks.

The three day international conference on the theme, Africa and the Diaspora in the New Millennium held at the University of Missouri, St Louis, United States of America by the Centre for Black African Art and Civilisation ( CBAAC) in conjunction with E Desmond Lee Endowed Professorship of African/ African-American Studies and International Studies Program at the University of Missouri- St. Louis and Pan African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG) Nigeria has come and gone. But the memory will linger for a long time.

Alhaji Lam Onaolapo Adesina,Oyo State governor from May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2003, passed on to glory on Sunday, 11, November, aged 73 years. Lam rose to the pinnacle of all his callings in life. He got to the zenith of his career as a teacher; as a social crusader, he got state recognition and was tagged a ‘prisoner of war’. Politically, he did not only realize his ambition of becoming the governor of his state, he achieved the extra ordinary by installing a governor, not while in power but eight years after he had left office.

Whereas corruption is generally associated with stealing of (public) funds, the following catalogues the many serial acts that demonstrate how corruption magnifies the scope of underdevelopment – especially in a zero-sum political atmosphere like Nigeria’s, with a ruling party that has the nation in a vice-grip hold, and politicians whose major consideration is about the verb ‘EAT

To Governors Adams Oshiomhole (Edo) and Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo) as well as a former governor of Ogun State, Chief Gbenga Daniel, the death of eminent jurist, Justice Kayode Eso, is a monumental loss to the country and the judicial profession.

RELIGIOUS leaders including the General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Musa Asake; Director of National Issues of CAN in charge of North West Zone, Rev. Haruna Karatu; and the PRO of 19 northern states and Abuja CAN, Elder Sunday Oibe have condemned the comments credited to Pastor Tunde Bakare who was calling for a revolution because certain eminent religious leaders have private jets, saying there is nothing wrong with people donating aircraft to their religious leaders.

Maize in Ekiti is not as valuable as yam which gives them pounded yam or, better still, cash crops like cocoa or kolanut. But maize is an important crop in Ido-Ekiti. History has it that in the days of old, the people of Ido made a fortune from maize.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.”- Frederick Douglass

COUNSEL to the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday, faulted the testimony of a witness of the appellant, Maj.-General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd), in the case which he instituted before the Election Petitions Tribunal challenging the victory of Governor Adams Oshiomhole in the July 14 election.

Saturday November 3, 2012, would forever remain a day to be remembered for by Nwagbo Chimezien, a graduate of statistics of the Imo State University, as she emerged winner of the coveted Face of Edo Beauty Pageant.