The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, and Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to commence training, teaching and research programmes in the state polytechnic with the establishment of Faculty of Agricultural Science and Engineering in the institution. According to the Media Relations Officer of the Institution, Mr. Tope Abiola, all machineries have been put in place by the institution to commence full academic programmes in Agricultural Science and Engineering.

“Great Nigerian people have spoken! We needed change and we have it,” said Ade, a commuter in the CMS-bound commuter bus last Wednesday.

The road to the 2017 AFCON will be rough for Nigeria as they will battle the Pharaohs of Egypt, Chad and Tanzania in Group G for a place at the 2017 AFCON to be staged by Gabon in 2017.

THAT was the way the proprietor of Chelsea University, a private university which is scheduled to resume in 2016 described it. In addition to that wildly exaggerated claim, Chief Chidolue promised to engage the best professors in the world to teach at the new school. Chelsea serves as a metaphor for what we can expect from the proprietors of new universities in their bid to get our kids to enroll as pioneer students.

Following the victory of General Muhammadu Buhari at the March 28 polls, concerned educationists and stakeholders have called on the President-elect to make education top priority in his administration, saying no nation can progress without educating her people. Nigeria’s education sector is currently battling with corruption, inadequate funding, low enrolment of students in basic education as Nigeria houses over 10 million out of school children, low quality of teachers at all levels of education, poor performance of students in public examinations, among others.

The Oyo State Police Command has arrested 49 suspects allegedly involved in the killing of a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Ikeokwu Nworgu, at Adekile area of Ibadan, where a kidnappers’ den was discovered.

Scientists have again discovered how marital relationship affects couples’ health. While other studies have shown that stress and negative marital quality can influence mortality and blood pressure, there has not been research that discussed how it might affect married couples over time.

Survivors of the nuclear family of Chief Christopher Adube have raised alarm that their lives were under fresh threats.

AS the headquarters of many Christian evangelistic missions it was not surprising that the outgoing governor of the state, Mr. Jonah Jang was repeatedly alleged to have claimed that God would decide his choice of a successor.

FORMER Chairman of defunct Ebonyi State Enlightenment Committee, Chief Otuka Anyasi, has accused the state governor, Chief Martin Elechi of working against the power sharing arrangement agreed upon by the founding fathers of Ebonyi by not supporting the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dave Umahi.