YENAGOA — mother of Bayelsa State Commissioner for Lands and Survey, Mr Furoebi Akene, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen.

ABUJA— Forty-eight hours after Governor Murtala Nyako was removed from office, details of how the game plan was hatched and implemented by the House of Assembly have emerged.

POOR organization and not “lack of talent” has been identified as the reason behind the failure of Nigeria’s Super Eagles to progress beyond the round of 16 at the 2014 Fifa World Cup finals in Brazil.

AHEAD of August 9 Osun State gubernatorial election, President Goodluck Jonathan vowed yesterday that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP would win the election, saying the state belongs to PDP. He insisted that those presently occupying the government house did not get into office through elections.

Last Wednesday, the education sector got its 18th Education Minister from June 1999.
After over 10 months without a substantive education minister, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau eventually assumed office as the Minister of Education. It would be recalled that Professor Ruqqayattu Rufai bowed out of office as the Minister of Education in September 2013.

It was a sight to behold! Hearing their sonorous voices from the other side of the fence, one would have thought that a new Pentecostal church had relocated to the M&M Event Center which is adjacent to the Nicon Luxury hotel in Abuja.

Association of Better Rivers State, ABRS, and Rivers Congress for Positive Change, RCPC, yesterday urged former senator representing Rivers South-East senatorial zone, Senator Lee Maeba, to contest the 2015 governorship election in Rivers State.

Stakeholders in the justice sector converged in Lagos in the penultimate week to develop an action plan aimed at bringing to an end issues of delay in justice administration.

One of the major challenges rocking the northern part the country is the problem of out-of-school children. Even though the government of Nigeria has increasingly recognised the right of children to education and development, efforts by respective state governments in the north have not necessarily translated into equitable advantage for the out-of-school children in the region.

The removal of Admiral Murtala Nyako as governor of Adamawa State was a prediction long foretold. But why he walked straight into the booby trap is a wonder

While some survivors of the flood disaster recorded in some parts of Ibadan metropolis are trying to put the incident behind them, others are yet to come to terms with the painful reality of the incident where a make-shift bridge collapsed and emptied those on it into the raging flood.

The Bayelsa State Police Command, yesterday, described as untrue, the reported killing of three students of the state Niger Delta University, Amassoma, in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state, by suspected cultists.

Universities and Polytechnics are clearly a key part of all tertiary systems, but the diverse and growing set of a public and private tertiary institutions in every country -nursing schools, research laboratories, distance learning centres and many more institutions that support production of high level capacity necessary for development.

Impressed by the judi-cious use of the funds approved over the last five years to it by its Visitor, Governor Olusegun Mimiko, the Ondo State House of Assembly Committee on Education, Science and Technology, last Wednesday, commended the management of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, assuring that it will not hesitate to facilitate the approval of more funds for completion of other projects in the school.

ABUJA— The Governing Council of the University of Abuja have ordered the shutdown of the school indefinitely