Aptech harps on IT education among youth
Following the lingering strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Computer professionals around the world have advised Nigerian youths to seize other options such as enrolling in Aptech computer programs that will better equip them in gaining Admission effortlessly into Middlesex University.
Interstate Electrics to improve electricity distribution in S/East
Interstate Electrics, the preferred bidder for the Enugu Electricity Distribution Plc (Enugu DISCO) has reiterated its commitment to enhance efficiency for effective service delivery in the distribution of electricity in South East Nigeria. This follows its successful payment of the balance of $94million required for the takeover of the DISCO.
All four Delhi gang rape suspects guilty of rape, murder
Four men were found guilty Tuesday of gang- raping and murdering a student on a New Delhi bus last December in a case that sickened India and led to tough new anti-rape laws.
Miss World organisers say Bali final ‘impossible’
Miss World organisers said Tuesday it would be “impossible” to stage the final in Bali, vowing to petition Indonesian authorities to move the event back to Java after it was switched in the face of radical Muslim protests.
Unfair FAAN bashing over Stowaway Daniel
THE stowaway simply known as Daniel recently hit the touch button for a media frenzy when he quietly slipped into the landing gear compartment of an Arik Air aircraft on the runway of the Benin Airport on August 24, 2013. The aircraft was on its way to Lagos.
60-yr-old woman raped by 27-yr-old son
An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court in Ekiti State, yesterday, remanded one Akintunde Omotehinde, 27, in prison custody for allegedly raping his 60-year-old mother.
Electronic Voting Possible If…
NIGERIANS can vote electronically today if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, wants it to work. The other side to the use of electronic voting is the National Assembly, and myriad of politicians who have interests that electronic voting would not support.
55-yr-old allegedly defiles 11-yr old girl
An Osogbo Senior Magistrate Court, Osun State has remanded a 55-year-old man,Titiloye Tella, for allegedly defiling and raping an 11-year-olg girl simply identified as ‘Tapepa’ (not real name) in his (Tella) bedroom.
It’s wrong to make stowaway boy hero – NAAPE
National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, NAAPE, has criticised the award of scholarship to stowaway teenager, Daniel Oikhena, by the Governor Rauf Aregbesola Foundation.
Osun PDP suspends chieftains for attending Oyinlola-led state nPDP meeting
Barely 24 hours after factional secretary of Alhaji Kawu Baraje led new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola held a rally in his home-town, Okuku, attended by PDP members from all the 30 local government areas in the state, the Osun State chapter of the PDP has suspended chieftains of the party including its former chairman, Alhaji Ademola Rasaq, for attending the rally.
Help! My mother is denying me!
THE story you are about to read will no doubt evoke several emotions in you by the time you finish reading next Thursday. It is the pathetic story of a young lady seeking to know her true identity. I was moved to tears after listening to this lady as she narrated her story. At the end of it all, I concluded that this was a classic case of over indulgence on the part of this lady’s grandparents as well as sheer wickedness and lack of fear of God and humanity on the part of her mother. That is if indeed she qualifies to be called a mother.
Declare your plans for 2015, Anenih tells Jonathan
As elders in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, brainstorm on how to resolve the current crisis in the party in order not to lose ground to the opposition, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT), Chief Tony Anenih, has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan and other party members who are interested in contesting for elective offices in 2015 general elections to declare their intentions before the end of this month.
Woman jailed 14 years for stealing N3.15m
An Abuja Magistrate Court, yesterday, sentenced a 22-year-old cashier, Mariam Salifu, to 14 years in prison for stealing N3.15 million belonging to her employers.
Anambra poll: Air Force jet to convey sensitive election materials – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, said it had concluded plans to conduct a gubernatorial election in Anambra State that will be the best ever conducted in Nigeria.
Ozekhome’s release imminent – Brother
AS Iviukwe community, Agenebode, in Weppa Wano clan of Estako East Local Government Area of Edo State waits for the release of their son, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, by his abductors, his elder brother, Chief Pius Ozekhome, has denied rumours that he has been released.
Lagos transport: Molue going!, going!!…
•LAMATA to launch 350 buses
Nigeria’s business hub, Lagos, one of Africa’s biggest cities, with an estimated population of 20 million inhabitants is famous for three distinctive features: high commercial activities, rush/congestion and its popular yellow commercial buses.
