ACTING Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Prof. Charles Onocha, said in Asaba, Delta State, yesterday, that specific interventions geared towards broadening access and ensuring functional learning for Nigerian citizens were being initiated to address the issue of large number of out-of-school children estimated at 10 million.

AHEAD of the second anniversary of the present federal administration, President Goodluck Jonathan has given a marching order to all Federal ministries, departments and agencies to complete ongoing and abandoned projects that are viable and of economic benefit to the people.

BISHOPS in the Niger Delta region have supported the state of emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, but former national chairman of the Traditional Rulers for Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, HRM, Charles Ayemi-Botu, said it should be extended to six other troublesome Northern states.

Policemen at-tached to Area B Command, Apapa, Lagos, have arrested four persons, among them three ‘Managing Directors,’ who allegedly specialised in defrauding unsuspecting petroleum dealers.

In Nigeria, insurance has never been a popular buy. A common answer being given by the average Nigerians on why he will not buy insurance has always been “Insurance don’t pay claims.”

FORMER House of Representatives member, Mr. Ikechi Chinwo has reassured Governor Chibuike Amaechi of the support of the people of Obio Akpor Local Government Area of the state.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, ordered the remand in Ikoyi prisons of a 25-year-old man charged with human trafficking.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, penultimate week, opened the telecom industry up for another debate when it released the operators’ market status and declared two, MTN and Globacom, as dominant players in different categories.

ENUGU—Residents of Odongbu-Amogbeke and Akponge-Amoju in Ezimo, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State have been sacked by gully erosion, while seven other communities are being threatened by the menace.

KADUNA—JOURNALISTS working with the New Nigerian Newspapers, NNN, have appealed to the 19 northern states governors to settle the N780 million outstanding liabilities owed workers of the company.

President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Solomon Ogba has commended grassroots athletics coach, Isaac Osagie who has been fishing out budding talents from primary and secondary schools to train.

Chairman of the League Management Company, Honourable Nduka Irabor has said that the alarm being raised by Sharks Football Club of Port Harcourt over the security situation in Maiduguri was unfounded

Few months ago, Nigerians woke up to receive with shock and disbelief, news of the decrepit level of decay at the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos coupled with its deplorable state. The college located on Oba Akinjobi way, close to Arch Bishop V inning Cathedral never gave any passer-by the slightest inkling of its real state, until it was revealed by a television station in January, 2013.

No one can say tomorrow, Simon Peter, one of the top associates of Jesus warned, when he wrote that “a day with the Lord is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day.”

NOW it looks like President Goodluck Jonathan has decided to take on the beast of religious terrorists ravaging different parts of Northern Nigeria, particularly the North-Eastern part, with his imposition of emergency rule on the three states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa last Wednesday.