Women from different parts of the country gathered at the Wheatbaker Hotel, Lagos, at the weekend, to mark the 2014 International Women’s Day with readings from poetry collections, short stories and exciting excerpts from various female authors.

THE United Nations Organisation for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) has declared that Nigeria could raise $13 billion (N2.08 trillion) more in 2015 to fund education if it increased its Tax-to-GDP ratio from its current 25.3 percent to 27.1 percent, and allocates 5.6 percent of its GDP to the educational sector.

Diego Maradona would like to watch how Pep Guardiola trains his Bayern Munich team and said the freshly-crowned Bundesliga champions would be unbeatable if they had Lionel Messi as well.

he 14th edition of Lagos State Ministry of Education Spelling Bee Competition has held, with Master Edun Olabanji of Army Children Senior Secondary School, Onigbongbo in first position.

NIGERIA’s next governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday, promised to review the past expenditure profiles of the nation’s apex bank to find out why it ran a budget deficit of N266 billion in 2013.

ACTING Director-General and Chief Executive of the Nigeria French Language Village, Dr Matthew Alawode has lamented the low patronage of the language school by Nigerian students.

The Secretary of Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST), Alex Peters, has said that strict onshore security is the solution to the issue of piracy and sea robbery in the nation’s waterways.

As part of its academic responsibility of making learning interesting and ensuring comprehensive learning outcome in young children, Wonderland Entertainment recently took pupils out of the four walls of their schools for a train ride excursion.

THE Senate Committee on Marine Transport has expressed concern over the increased number of abandoned project at the Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN) Oron, Akwa Ibom State.

FORMER Chief of Defence Staff, General Alani Akinrinade (rtd), will lead eminent Nigerians to Agip Hall, MUSON Centre, Lagos on April 17 for the public presentation of a book, ‘The Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency’ written by Dr. Wale Adebanwi.

THE House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption, Ethics and Values has summoned the Director General of National Directorate of Employment, Mallam Mohammed Abubakar, over how he allegedly spent N44million Millenium Development Goals, MDGs, fund to commission three centres.

FORMER Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Professor Peter Okebukola, has lamented the misplaced goals in science education in Nigeria, heaping the blame at the doorsteps of the government, teachers and students.

THE Federal Government’s dream of making Nigeria world’s hub for leather processing is being realised as a wholly indigenous start-up company, Berekotry Detergent Ltd. based in Iseyin, Oyo State, has discovered, through its cellulose fusion technology, a dual active antifungal and biocide extract with fast efficiency in leather dehairing, allegedly the fastest in the world now.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, arrested a 39-year-old electronics merchant with eight kilogrammes of Diazepam injections at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos.

THERE was a mild drama Wednesday at the venue of the on- going National Conference, when the Lamido Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammadu Barkindo Mustapha told his fellow delegates that he was prepared to secede from the present Nigeria if the country disintegrates.