HOW can we best describe a person who made a First Class honours in a course of study and also repeated the same performance in a national contest? If not genius, then the best nomenclature suitable for such a person is ‘exceptional’.

THE Rivers State Government has organised a one day training and sensitization programme on the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD for teachers and school administrators in public and private schools in the state. The Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Health put up the programme to sensitize teachers ahead of resumption for the 2014/15 academic session.

NO fewer than 1,274 intending pilgrims from Plateau State for this year’s pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, have been declared free of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, as well as other deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS.

IF what Robert Coram, wrote over two hundred years ago is true, and it is substantially correct, then Nigerian universities, by and large are not discharging their responsibilities to the youth. Everyday, we are confronted with the fact that our universities generally are turning out graduates who are unemployable. The answers to the question, why, are numerous, but one or two are the most prevalent.

CONTRARY to the perception that Nigerian students do not represent the country was overseas, the Minister of State I, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri has said that Nigerian students are good ambassadors

A member of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Uche Ekwunife, said yesterday that there was no alternative to President Goodluck Jonathan in next year’s presidential election.

ANXIETY looms in Enugu State over the directive from Federal Government to Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, to reopen schools next Monday as the union executive members are insisting that there would be no resumption until they got clearance from the national body for a go-ahead and necessary precautionary measures put in place.

The Ghana Football Association has confirmed that seven expatriate coaches including Milovan Rajevac have applied for the Black Stars coaching job.

WE must thank DAILY TRUST for the investigative piece of Thursday, September 11, 2014, titled “161 pro-Jonathan billboards in Abuja”. The nut and bolt of the piece was that Abuja has literally become swamped in a surfeit of billboards “praising President Goodluck Jonathan’s achievements and urging him to seek re-election in 2015”.

Unilever, an Anglo-Dutch multinational company which50 percent of its global business is domiciled in Nigeria has called on the government to integrate Post-2015 Development framework on the country’s development agenda in order to facilitate poverty reduction, boost job creation and sustainable environment.

When will the pathetic issue of unpaid benefits of public pensioners end in Nigeria. From civil servants, Para-military to ex-servicemen, the sad tale of unpaid benefits is the same. The other day, it was retired Nigeria Postal Service, NIPOST, workers, yesterday, it was retired senior civil servants and today it is retired military pensioners protesting […]

The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), has urged the National Assembly, which resumed from its two-month vacation, yesterday, to ensure speedy passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), to accelerate development of the oil sector to boost the country revenue.

Yenagoa—The Bayelsa State Government, yesterday, ordered Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, to temporarily shut down its facility in Ayamabele and Kalaba communities in Orkordia clan of Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state over rising cases of oil spills in the area.

A VALEDICTORY court session to honour the immediate past Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Philips, holds on September 23 at the State High Court Foyer, Igbosere, Lagos.