NEARLY a decade after the demise of its last Ovie, His Royal Highness Asakpakeregha, Onoriji 11, the Owevwe Kingdom in Ughelli North Local Government has concluded plans for the installation a new traditional ruler.

Access Bank website has been adjudged overall winner of the 2013 edition of the Web-Jurist ‘Website Effectiveness Award’ conducted by Philips Consulting.

The Advisory Board for the Nigeria Prize for Literature has released the final shortlist of three Poets for the 2013 edition of the prize. The three shortlisted writers, are Tade Ipadeola (The Sahara Testaments), Amu Nnadi (Through the window of a sandcastle) and Promise Ogochukwu (Wild Letters).

‘Since we were retired, no kobo was paid to me. Every time, we would be called to come to Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, to fill one form after another. Sometimes, we sleep at Awolowo Road on the bare floor, for us to be attended to. In spite of that, nothing has come out of it. It was only in 2010 October that I was paid, since then, no payment. My children are in school, I can’t provide for them. Anytime they come back, we all starve and they will cry all day till they go back. There is nobody to help me except God. My husband died since 2003′

The National Universities Commission (NUC), on Tuesday, 10 September, 2013, organised a workshop on the Development of Learning Outcomes for Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) for undergraduate programmes in the NUS. In a welcome address, the Executive Secretary, NUC, Professor Julius Okojie, said that the first Minimum Academic Standards (MAS) for 13 disciplines, were developed in 1989 and served as a reference document for the first accreditation exercise in the system, in 1990. He said that the MAS was reviewed, in 2004, through a process that led to the evolution of the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS).