THE Provost of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Prof Adeyemi Idowu, has criticised the non-utilization of study funds in the custody of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TET-FUND) by the academic staff of tertiary institutions.

My seven years of living with him has been hell. He made life unbearable for me; if I continue with him, he might end up killing me. He takes me for granted because he got me pregnant while I was still in secondary school”, a housewife, Maria Nwanche, told an Agege Grade A Customary Court in a divorce suit.

NATIONAL Commissioner with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in-charge of South East, Dame Gladys Nnenwafor, has decried the low turn out at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Area Council elections conducted Saturday, saying that the turn out was below forty per cent.

Fresh hostilities broke out Saturday between Adadama community of Cross River State and the Ikwo people of Ebonyi State. Reports said at least seven persons were killed.

A critical weakness in leukaemic cells, which may pave the way to new treatments, has been discovered by scientists at Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics and The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, USA.

The research team has demonstrated that leukaemic cells can be eradicated by removing a carbohydrate modification displayed on the cell’s surface.

AN important step toward developing a vaginal gel that may prevent the spread of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, may have been achieved following the discovery that nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom can destroy HIV while leaving surrounding cells unharmed.

Manchester United capitalised on a slip-up by Manchester City to open up a massive 15-point lead at the Premier League summit despite a laboured display in a 1-0 win at home to Reading on Saturday.

As political parties galvanise ahead of the 2015 general elections, former presidential candidate and foremost professor of political economy and management, Prof.Pat Utomi, in this interview, declares his hope in the emerging All Progressive Congress-APC- and also faults President Goodluck Jonathan’s competence. Utomi, it would be recalled, was a presidential adviser in the Second Republic’s government of Shehu Shagari. He had entered full-time politics in 2007 when he joined the African Democratic Congress under which he vied for the presidency. After that, Utomi formed another party, the Social Democratic Mega Party- SDP. Following the unimposing performance of the SDP at the 2011 elections, he heightened his gospel of a two party system, thereby joining the Action Congress of Nigeria which recently metamorphosed into the APC.

Dr. Chike Obidigbo, from Umunya, is a graduate of universities of Salford, Manchester, and Lancaster, UK; one time lecturer; journalist; and an industrialist engaged in product manufacturing and job creation for over two decades. He is presently the chairman of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Enugu, Anambra and Ebonyi states, and a member of National Council of Small and Medium Scale Industries.

The Federal Government, Saturday, summoned the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States (US) Embassy to protest a statement credited to the spokeswoman, Deb MacLean, on the embassy’s Twitter account expressing disappointment over the state pardon granted former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha.

Swansea, United Kingdom – Arsenal bounced back from their Champions League exit to step up their challenge for a top-four Premier League finish as goals from Nacho Monreal and Gervinho secured a 2-0 win at Swansea City on Saturday.

Nigeria on Saturday ruled out a ransom payment to the kidnappers holding seven members of a French family as France’s foreign minister held talks with President Goodluck Jonathan on the abductions.

THOSE born in Nigeria 900 years ago and others who made unquantifiable sacrifices on behalf of this country; either during the nationalist struggles or paid the supreme sacrifice on the field of war to keep the nation one will not survive one week in today’s Nigeria. Many of them, civil servants, lived freely in any part of the country. Railway workers, P&T workers, as well as traders freely resided wherever they wanted in any part of the country.

Utimanik Suites, Grace Bill Road, Eket, in Akwa Ibom State, will on March 30, play host to lovers of literature and the state’s Literati as one of Nigeria’s budding authors Godwin Ekpe launches his two poetry books.

The 1998 graduate of Geology from the University of Calabar who also holds a Masters in Geophysics from the University of Port Harcourt, with the release of The Mirror of Self and The Soul of a Poet has ventured into the deep world of poetry.

Senator Christopher Babajide Omoworare (ACN, Osun East) is the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter Governmental Affairs. He also serves on the Senate Committee of Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters; Rules and Business; Sports and Social Development.
In this interview, Omoworare bares his mind on President Goodluck Jonathan administration, the Senate, and Governor Rauf Aregbesola administration, among other issues of national importance.