The Niger Delta Enlightenment Network, NDEN, has called on the Federal Government to privatise public universities with a view to ending incessant strike by workers of the institutions, which was threatening sustenance of quality education in the country.

It is usually a common word that we always say – love. However, when we take a walk down the lane of experience, we find that to a very large extent, the word “love” is grossly misunderstood. We hear of things like “real love,” “stupid love,” “wicked love,” “wasted love,” and even some ridiculous statements like “love should kiss my a**.” One thing that comes to mind generally about love is always around romance and some sort of wooing. But love goes beyond that.

The AIG Zone 8, Christopher Dega has said visibility policing, Intensive and Efficient Vehicular and foot patrols coupled with community policing against previous strategies was responsible for the massive decrease in crime rate in the zone in 2013 compared to previous years.

All is not well with the health sector in Nigeria. For months on end, the industry has been entwined in a web of dispute, discord, protests and wranglings culminating in or arising from strikes, or threats of strikes and other expressions of disharmony.

ANEW global report on polio has shown that Nigeria has made considerable progress toward polio eradication in the last 18 months.
According to the report published in the latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, MMWR, , since late November 2013, no Wild PolioVirus 3 cases had been reported for more than a year.

The recently signed anti-gay bill by President Goodluck Jonathan has sent tongues wagging both in the local and foreign scene. An overwhelming percentage of Nigerians are happy with the law but then there is the minority who just can’t stomach it.

Former AC Milan midfielder and Dutch vetern, Clarence Seedorf has announced his retirement from his playing career to take up the vacant coaching job at San Siro.
Seedorf made more than 400 appearances in a stellar 10-year spell with Milan, during which he claimed two Serie A and two Champions League titles.

The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has promised to rehabilitate all federal roads across the country in 2014 and beyond, an official has said.

A member of the board of the agency, Alhaji Ahmed Gusau, stated this when he addressed a news conference in Sokoto on Tuesday.

The Founder of the O’odua People’s Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasehun, on Tuesday ordered a manhunt by the group for those involved in the alleged torture of two women in Ejigbo, Lagos State.

Alhaji Ahmed Gusau, former Minister of Solid Minerals, on Tuesday advised against the use of religious sentiments in the run up to the 2015 general elections.

The relative peace enjoyed by people living in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital was Tuesday disrupted by a deadly bomb blast which rocked the Post Office General area killing no fewer than ten people, while several others sustained injuries.

Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has dropped two commissioners and changed the portfolios of three others in a minor cabinet shake up.

Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray all spent mercifully little time on court but Lleyton Hewitt bowed out in a five-set thriller in sweltering conditions at the Australian Open Tuesday.

Third seed Maria Sharapova clawed her way into the Australian Open second round Tuesday with a straight-sets win over Bethanie Mattek-Sands as she seeks her first Grand Slam title since the 2012 French Open.

Most Nigerians who were at the venue of the 2013 GLO/CAF Awards in Lagos on June 9 or those glued to their seats at home, watching the ceremony live on television, had a common mindset: