GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, said Nigeria needs a revolutionary agenda to fix its problems and urged journalists to continue to probe the activities of those in power.

CHAIRMAN of Patani Local Government Area, Transition Committee, Delta State, Mr. Chris Ekiyor, has said that it was not the constitutional responsibility of local government areas to pay the salary of primary school teachers.

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the Federal Government, under an arrangement with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will recruit young professionals that will work on a variety of UN programmes in various parts of the world.

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Bauchi—The Academic Staff Union of College of Education, Azare, Bauchi State, COEASU, has demanded the immediate removal of Alhaji Aliyu Shehu, as registrar of the college, warning that it would not call off its strike unless its demand was met.

Water sachet nylons, polythene bags, plastic bottles, broken plastic buckets, basins, cans etc., litter the streets and gutters leading to blockage of drains and generally making the environment unsightly and unhealthy. It was so bad that the former Director-General of NAFDAC, Professor Dora Akunyili called for the banning of sachet water because of the amount of waste generated.

West Brom striker Osaze Odemwingie has warned coach Stephen Keshi he could soon be sacked even after leading Nigeria to AFCON glory.

LAST Sunday evening, Nigeria’s nomenclatura gathered inside the Banquet Hall of the Aso Villa, to celebrate one of the wonders of modern Nigeria; the return from death of First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. It was a solemn spiritual event; a power show; a fashion statement extraordinaire and a political gathering, all rolled into one.

OPERATIVES of the Nigeria Custom Service, NCS, Murtala Muhammed International Airports, MMIA, Command, Wednesday arrested a passenger with $1.1 million at MMIA, Lagos on his way to Kenya.

An Information Communication Technology, ICT expert, Dr. I.K. Oyeyinka, has said that Nigeria can be far better than India in technology if the right institutions and government agencies properly manage computer gurus in the country.

THE joint committees on Downstream, Niger Delta Ministry and Local Governments in the House of Representatives yesterday summoned Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, to explain his ministry’s role in the Federal Government’s Subsidy Re-investment Empowerment Programme, SURE-P.

Stakeholders in the judicial, executive and legislative arms of government, among others are to brainstorm on the autonomy of local governments in the country at a national public discourse.

PATANI—CHAIRMAN of Patani Local Government Area, Transition Committee, Delta State, Mr. Chris Ekiyor, has said that it was not the constitutional responsibility of local government areas to pay the salary of primary school teachers.

University administrators have been urged to always give back to the society and live up to the demands of the ethics of their profession.

AHEAD of the 2014 governorship election in Anambra State, a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Afam Ogene (APGA, Ogbaru Federal Constituency) has dismissed as false claims by some politicians that there was no consensus that the next governor of the state should come from Anambra North, which has never produced the helmsman since the inception of the state. Regretting that only Governor Peter Obi has kept the agreement, Ogene said in this interview that Anambra North has what it takes to fight the electoral battle.

Dr Lorenzo Manuel David, Jr. is a filipino who has been living in Nigeria for over 30 years. From 1988 to 1998, he taught Geophysics in the University of Benin. Presently, he is the principal of White Sand School, Lekki. In this interview, he spoke of his personal commitment to education and the way forward for education sector in Nigeria. Excerpts.