Towards improving water transportation and implementation of general safety and security on its waterways, the Lagos State Government has completed dredging and channelization of Ijegun-Egba and Ebute-Ojo axis.

A RECENT report of the last West African Se-nior School Certificate, WASSCE, showed a decline in students’ performance in English Language and General Mathematics but an improvement in the performance of candidates in Arabic, Igbo, Islamic Studies, and CRK.

IN 2011, 2,892 candidates scored above 300 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME. In a sad turn of events, the performance has nosedived drastically since then; only three candidates scored 300 and above in 2012 with the number increasing slightly to 10 in 2013.

Yola — Former Military Administrator of Lagos, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, lacked ‘’what it takes to form the next government in Adamawa State.’’

The Bauchi State Government is to receive N10 billion loan from the World Bank to resuscitate its water sector, the former state Commissioner for Water Resources, Alhaji Sani Bura, has said.

A MAJOR crisis is brewing in the Trade Unions Congress, TUC as no fewer than 13 affiliates have petitioned the leadership of the labour centre questioning the leadership of style of its President.

The Chairman, Nigerian Population Commission, NPC, Sir Eze Duruiheoma, SAN, has appealed to Nigerians to divorce politics from the forthcoming national census.

A young Nigerian, Mr. Zege Aondofa, a 2012 Mass Communication graduate from Benue State University, says he is in love with the word ‘recycling’ and has, therefore, taken paper recycling a notch higher. Currently awaiting his call-up letter for the compulsory one year national service to his fatherland, Zege has made chairs and dressing tables from paper. In this chat with Vanguard Learning in Yola, Zege speaks on his passion for recycling and what he has been able to achieve so far

DESPITE the state of insecurity in the country, events in and around the country reveals that Nigerians are fun loving people and this they demonstrated last Monday when they trouped out en mass to the Cinema Hall 2 of the National theatre for the much advertised special Easter Chorale performance tagged Peace and Unity.

Mr. Yinka Oyebode, official spokesman of Governor Kayode Fayemi has debunked assertions that majority of the governor’s cabinet was secretly backing the Labour Party candidate, Opeyemi Bamidele.