The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie, has tasked members of the National Project Performance and Review Committee (NPPRC) of the African Centres of Excellence (ACE) project, to be objective and thorough in the discharge of their assignment.

ANY foreign national who possesses specialised and relevant skills, abilities and technical know-how required in Nigeria for the development of its economy may be employed to work in Nigeria for a period of time in order to transfer such skills, abilities and knowledge. Before such skilled foreign national can be employed in Nigeria, the employer must prove that no Nigerian citizen possesses the same skills, abilities and technical know-how; it must also have obtained a work permit for the prospective employee to the skilled migrant to work legally in Nigeria.

It is in every word and description the Nigerian story. At a time in the history of the nation when after 52 years of independence, various ethnic groups are working and scheming assiduously to control the political space especially ahead of the 2015 elections, the menace of terrorist groups, kidnapping, corruption as well as the growing religious and sectarian divide in the nation, the dance drama, Nigeria The Beautiful, aptly comes alive.

Determined to attain 91 per cent literacy rate before the 2015 Education for All deadline, the Lagos State Agency for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, LSAME, in conjunction with the National Mass Education Commission (NMEC), UNESCO and the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Office, has concluded a six-day training workshop organised for the 111 facilitators of the adult literacy scheme in some of the local government council areas of the state.

The delegation of Football Association of Malawi to Saturday’s 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against African champions, Nigeria will land in Abuja on Thursday morning. The contingent will arrive from Accra, Ghana.

THIS column today is dedicated to two Nigerians – Master Daniel Ohikhena, that wizkid who flew from Benin City to Lagos without paying a kobo; and Alhaji Danbaba Suntai, the Executive Governor of Taraba State, who travelled to hell and back.

Controversy trailing last weekend re-run election in Offa local government area of Kwara State took a strange dimension, yesterday, when one of the councillor ship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Shao South West Ward, Mr Jimoh Afolabi Olawole, earlier declared winner alongside others by Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission, KWASIEC, said he did not win the election.

It is amazing that the Federal Government has allowed the ASUU strike to continue without any serious attempt to resolve the impasse. In the first place, it needs to be stressed that once an agreement has been reached by parties, it ought to be respected and implemented.

FORUM for Justice and Human Rights Defence, FJHD, has called for the conduct of credible local government elections in Delta State, as the current situation where caretaker committees are in-charge, denies the people of true representation at the grassroots.