Different strokes as Reps hold people’s public sessions on new constitution
Although, the People’s Public Sessions on the Review of the amended 1999 Constitution held by the House of Representatives in the 360 federal constituencies across the country three Saturdays ago has come and gone, the event nonetheless reinforced the political reality that sovereignty actually belongs to the people.
From READ comes Poetry of Spoken Word
“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…”
Experts make case for teachers’ training, quality education
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.”
Our judicial system must be overhauled to reflect contemporary challenges
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.
State budget cannot address the problem of education in Kaduna – SUBEB Chairman
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
Arms Research sees bright prospect for Presco …share price to rise to N22.52
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.
Yoruba groups want Okada banned in South West
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.
JAMB picks YABATECH as 2013 UTME CBT centre
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.
Nigerian varsities yet to review syllabuses after 15 years – FRC
The Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer, Financial Reporting Council (FRC), Mr. Jim Obazee, has revealed that most Nigerian universities are yet to review their school syllabuses for upward of 15 years.
CBN proposes autonomous body to fix oil benchmark
The Central Bank of Nigeria, through its Monetary Policy Committee, MPC has called for the setting up of an independent legal structure that will be charged with setting oil benchmark output and price.
65 students get N6m scholarship in Ogun
No fewer than 65 indigent students of Ogun State are to benefit from a N6 million worth of scholarship aimed at rescuing brilliant students whose academic careers are being threatened by financial challenges.
