A Non-Governmental Organisation, The Great Transformation Support Initiative (GTSI), has petitioned the Presidency, to intervene in the plight of primary school teachers in Kogi State.

As ETL trains top tertiary executives BY DAYO ADESULU The Consul-General of Nigeria in the United States of America,Ambassador Habib Baba Habu has stated that about 60 million Nigerian youth are uneducated.Even as he equally noted that Nigerians in Diaspora are among the most sought after by American universities because of their intelligence. He disclosed […]

The Kaduna State House of Assembly, yesterday, suspended its former speaker, Alhaji Usman Gangara for three months after finding him guilty of hiding its mace.

IT is said he who wears the shoe knows where it pinches. Northern Nigeria, especially the Muslim zone of the North, knows where the shoe of Islamic terror and insurgency is pinching. That much is pretty obvious.

The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA is to commence monitoring of offshore operations to ensure compliance in all operations, Port Manager of Onne port, Munir Umar, has said.

Although the impor-tance of education in the development of a nation cannot be overemphasized, Nigeria seems to be missing it as far as education is concerned

THE Director- General,National Cen-tre for Women Development,NCWD, Onyeka Onwenu has said women’s education is under attack as over 200 schoolgirls were abducted from school by terrorists who are adamantly opposed to educating girls and women.

The Lagos State University Senate, has elected Prof. Fidelis O. Njokanma as the new Deputy Vice-Chancellor, (Administration) for the university. The election was held at the university’s hallowed chamber, Ojo.

Igbinedion University illustrates the long and difficult road to travel by proprietors of new private universities. It was one of the first three private universities to be approved in 1999. The other two being Babcock University, Ilishan which received 2,139 applications and Madonna University, Okija, to which 1,021 applied. Thus, almost 15 years after opening its doors, Igbinedion is still struggling to fill its classrooms.

OSOGBO—THE ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State yesterday sang discordant tunes over the desirability of the four-man commission being planned by the state government to probe the recent attack on the first Executive Governor of the state and governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke