When I was in my second year in school in 2012, I saw an advert in the MTN Foundation website where they requested for application from interested students for their scholarship scheme. I showed interest, took the exams and passed. Since then, I have maintained the required CGPA and have enjoyed the scholarship worth N200,000.

In furthering its mission to empower youth through communication technology, Vodacom Business Nigeria hosted fifty-six students from the S.S. Peter & Paul Nursery and Primary School, Ikate Elegushi on a special tour of the company’s facilities to learn about the cloud computing and the technology behind e-learning.

The story has been told of four lazy friends – Somebody, Anybody, Everybody and Nobody – with a task to be performed. Somebody said Anybody can do it; Anybody said Everybody should do it. In the end, Nobody did it.” Anonymous.Ask any of our leaders of thought – Pat Utomi, Bolaji Akinyemi, Hassan Kukah etc — what are the missing elements in our search for economic, political and social development.

As part of the strategy to fight the Boko Haram insurgency, President Muhammadu Buhari will today host a meeting of Heads of State and Presidents of the Lake Chad Basin Commission in Abuja.

Candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for the Umuahia-Ikwuano federal constituency in the just-concluded general elections, Sir Collins Onyeama, has expressed optimism that Abia State Election Petitions Tribunal will restore the mandate of the party at all levels in the state.

The Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, has decried what it described as preaching of “mystic doctrines by some unguided extremists, which are completely contradictory to Islamic faith and principles.”

His strength is in his character which is invisible. Thus, in searching for Hon. Festus Ovie Agas a lawyer, it is quite possible to look beyond him. Yet he is not hidden because he does not shy away from responsibilities and challenges. He will always be compelled by his sheer grasp of issues to listen to him.

EX-MILITANT leaders under the aegis of Urhobo Gbagbako, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to overhaul and restructure the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to pave way for “genuine host communities” to be physically captured in the interventionist agency’s development programmes.

Azeez Ladipo, the Captain of the Nigeria national rugby players, on Wednesday urged his team mates to remain focused to ensure Nigeria moved up to Africa Cup 1B.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), yesterday, confirmed that it is yet to remit $11.6 billion, about N2.32 trillion, into the Federation Account, blaming its inability to remit the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, dividends on an ongoing reconciliation process.