RECENTLY, Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State removed Mr. Umana Okon Umana, former secretary to the state government, from office. While tongues were wagging on the reasons or motives for the sack, the state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr. Aniekan Umana, in a paid advertorial stated that the former SSG was sacked because he refused to resign even while nursing a political ambition or campaigning to contest the Governorship election of Akwa Ibom State in 2015.

Cameroon claimed the 10th and final place in Africa’s final qualifying round for the 2014 World Cup The Indomitable Lions beat Libya 1-0 in a winner-takes-all showdown in Yaounde on Sunday.

Wrestling has won back its spot as an Olympic sport and will be contested at both the 2020 and 2024 Games.

An expert on space technology, Prof. Babatunde Rabiu, has called for the domestication of space technology in the country, saying that this will boost Internally Generated Revenue, IGR. Rabiu, the Director, Centre for Atmospheric Research, National Space Research and Development Agency, said this in an interview with the NAN in Abuja.

Former Head of State, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has urged members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to remain united to for them to achieve the set goals of the party.

THE on-going strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has become a source of concern as it has brought untold pain to parents and guardians whose children and wards are idling away when they are supposed to be in classrooms.

TO get Nigeria’s 10 million out-of-school children into school and learning, today, alongside development partners, we will announce millions of dollars of international support in a joint effort with President Goodluck Jonathan and his state governors.

Nigeria’s Minister for Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, and his counterpart in Women Affairs, Hajia Zainab Maina, will lead a host of top government officials and international diplomats to the opening ceremony of the Airtel Rising Stars Africa Championship taking place in Lagos, from September 16th – September 22nd, 2013.

Former Kwara state governor and one of the leaders of the breakaway “New PDP”,Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki representing Kwara central in current Senate chamber insisted Sunday that the group would not compromise on the principle of ‘fairness and equity’ in the affairs of the party in the bid to settle the ongoing logjam in the ruling party.

TODAY 10.5 MILLION NIGERIANS WILL NOT GO TO SCHOOL.

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