Crisis brews between INEC, PDP over state congresses
STRONG indications emerged yesterday that crisis is brewing between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, following disagreement by the latter with the recently conducted state congresses that produced the present executive of the party in eleven states.
Almajiri project an exercise in futility – Shehu Sani
KADUNA based rights activist, Mallam Shehu Sani, yesterday, faulted the launching of the Almajiri Boarding Primary Schools by President Goodluck Jonathan in Sokoto State Tuesday as way of curtailing the activities of Boko Haram, saying that the scheme is not only “white elephants,” but “waste of public fund,” as such schools were propagated by the Islamic sect which the Sultan of Sokoto belonged to.
Omoboriowo, Ondo ex-gov, dies at 81
ADO-EKITI – Foremost politician, lawyer and former deputy governor to Chief Adekunle Ajasin in the old Ondo state, Chief Michael Omoboriowo, is dead.
Low-waist trousers, trend or aberration?
“Oh my God, what sort of temptation is this, please young lady, cover your buttocks. You are making me feel uncomfortable, exposing it.” “Oga what is your business with my ‘backside’; wetin your eye find go there, abeg no just disturb me again, unless both of us go put leg for the same trouser inside this bus.”
New curriculum for chemistry in the pipeline
Towards forestalling the perennial high failure rate in chemistry in the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, SSSCE, the Federal Government is set to introduce a new curriculum for the subject.
FCTA trains 137 ex-sex workers, 57 disabled, 336 others
Determined to rid the streets of Abuja of prostitutes, beggars and destitutes, Social Development Secretariat, FCTA, in collaboration with the Society Against Prostitution and Child Labour (SAP-CLN) has trained 137 ex-sex workers, 57 disabled persons and 336 others in various skills.
