“President Jonathan came from a village. President Buhari came from a village. They too can also become the President or governors of states.” Similarly, one of the leaders of APC in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT and incidentally a resident of the community, Hon. Yamawo Tanko was full of praises for the organisers of the Programme.

ONITSHA – An Onitsha Magistrate Court in Anambra State has fixed July 9 for further hearing in a N500,000 suit filed by a businessman, Chief Ntomchukwu Atuchukwu, against a legal practitioner, Charles Ononye. The matter which was earlier scheduled to come up before Chief Magistrate Mike Okonkwo on May 28 could not hold because the defendant (Ononye) said he was served the hearing notice on May 27.

“You don’t have that in a regular Nigerian university where you are expected to follow a set of rules in doing your course. But here, you have professors who are not too strict, who unlike most Nigerian professors allow you to explore, make your mistakes and they pick you up; you have friends who are not looking at how rich or poor you are. There is this wholeness and oneness mixed.”

In a bid to tackle the alarming deterioration of the nation’s education sector, as well as the attendant unemployment rate, the Nigeria Breweries Plc (NB), last Friday, gathered over 500 students from across five schools, in Lagos, to enlighten them on the right career paths to take. Among the participating schools at the event tagged ‘Beyond the School’, a career and guidance counselling initiative of Nigerian Breweries-Felix Ohiwerei (NB-FO) Education Trust Fund, were SSI-SS3 students of Oregun Senior Secondary School, Oregun;

Senator Oluremi Tinubu has called on women to be empowered both in the academia and in vocational skills as this will aid development of the nation. She made this known at the launch of Women in Colleges of Education, (WICE) magazine and award ceremony, hosted by Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, WICE chapter.

DELTA State House of Assembly has discarded the bill initiated by the immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, to restructure Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC.

The Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers State chapter, Prince Felix Obuah, has expressed concern over what he called the deplorable condition of Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt and liaison offices in Abuja, Lagos and other places, following alleged removal of property by the immediate past administration.

ENUGU—Teachers and pupils of a private school situated on Bisala Road, Independence Layout, Enugu, last Tuesday, foiled attempt by officials of the Enugu State Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, from demolishing their perimeter fence.b Officials of ECTDA, accompanied by armed policemen besieged the school at about 2.15p.m. to demolish the perimeter fence separating it from the premises of a three-star hotel in the area.

Ex-Super Eagles mercurial play maker and chairman of the Delta State Football Association, Austin a Jay-Jay Okocha will be the Special Guest at the opening ceremony of the Basalt Cup competition for primary schools in Anioma South, Delta State.

The Edo State House of Assembly, yesterday, approved the sack of the suspended Chairman of Owan West Local Government Area of the state, Mr Godwin Aigbodion.