IMO State Volleyball Male and Female teams showed yesterday that their missions to the 18th National Sports Festival ( NSF), tagged Eko2012 were to finish tops after they demolished their Kebbi (male) and Anambra (female) counterparts by 3-0 apiece in the event’s opening matches.

LAST week Friday, many Nigerian newspapers carried on their front pages, the picture of Tony B-LIAR, former British Prime Minister, surrounded by the Sultan of Sokoto, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and other religious leaders.

Exactly one year after Professor John Oladapo Obafunwa assumed office as the 11th Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, massive developments have sprung up in various sections of the university.

Shareholders have called for the amendment of the Companies and Allied Act (CAMA) law to allow remuneration for audit committee members.

The President of Goldashe United Football Club of Port Harcourt, Mr. Fubara Kingsley Hart has charged Nigerians to imbibe the culture of caring and nurturing sportsmen and women who made the country proud in their heydays.

Some technical officials who were protesting the quality of accommodation and food given them by organizers have called off their protest.

INTEGRITY, they say, is telling oneself the truth, while honesty is telling the truth to other people. People should always learn how to toe the path of honour, if they have any, especially when it is clear they are no longer relevant and wanted by the larger society.

Mr. Kyari Abba Bukar is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) Plc, a subsidiary of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

“Justice has been kidnapped in my country and nobody is willing to pay her ransom, she was absent at the tribunal when the verdict was given, so the marauders were declared winners even though the votes were phantom…”

The Vice Chancellor,Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Professor Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, former Minister of Education, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, Tiina Raatikainen who is a Lead Expert with EduCluster Finland and a host of experts in the education sector over the weekend spoke with one voice, calling for training and retraining of teachers to enhance productivity. Ibidapo-Obe has said that to get the best from education sector, “we must train new teachers continuously as well as retrain older teachers.”

Mr Olasupo Ati-John is the Secretary of Section on public Interest and Development Law, SPIDEL, a section of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. In this interview, he noted that for corruption in the judicial system to be adequately addressed, the entry level of the profession must be restructured to curb the menace of corruption.

The Executive Chairman, Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Mr. Ishaya Dary Akau, in this interview with Favour Nnabugwu in Kaduna touches on a number of issues bordering on the problem of education in that state and ability and inability of the state to access the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC’s intervention funds

Analysts at Arms Research have projected that the share price of Presco Oil will experience appreciable increase within the year, even as they recommend a buy rating on the share.

As the ban placed on operations of commercial motorcycle riders, popularly called Okada bites harder in Lagos, a Yoruba group, O’odua Nationalist Coalition, ONAC, has called for a five-year long term plan to completely phase out Okada as a means of transportation in the South West states.

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has picked Yaba College of Technology as one of its Computer Based Test (CBT) centres for its take off of the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) having met all the criteria of qualifying as CBT centers.