The Edo State Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) has faulted the abrogation of the Youth Empowerment Scheme (YES) in the state.

By Dele Sobowale Read Saraki provokes mother of all media wars 1 “The election of a Peoples Democratic Party senator as deputy Senate President is evidently a grand conspiracy to sabotage the Buhari government.” Senator Kabiru Marafa, PUNCH, June 22, 2015, p 7. In Europe, the 100 years war started one day and with a single […]

Peguy a French philosopher who died just over a hundred years ago, after leaving us with those words on marble must have had something like the rogue account, called Excess Crude Account, ECA, created by the combination of President Obasanjo and Minister Okonjo-Iweala in 2004. As one of those present at the creation of this illegal account at the time, I had raised objections to the ECA in 2004 and predicted that it was bound to create conflict in the future. But Obasanjo and Dr Okonjo-Iwela were operating with the enthusiasm of new evangelists, they were immune to other ideas.

It is just three weeks since the Eighth Senate was inaugurated on the proclamation prepared by President Muhammadu Buhari. Since then, a lot has happened within the institution which under normal circumstances should have attracted positive attention from members of the public, including the ardent critic of the nation’s legislature. However, all the developments in that upper chamber of our legislature had been overshadowed by the din emanating from the circumstances in which its leadership emerged.

A former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant and educationist, Mr. Kenneth Imasuagbon, yesterday, formalised his return to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his ward in Ewohimi, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State.

If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas, or in Latin, qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent. “He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas”

The mantra of change facing ordinary Nigerians and their throbbing desire for improved living conditions. But how many of those who vociferously chanted ‘change,’ especially APC leaders and their supporters across the country, actually understand what genuine social change is all about? What are the philosophical underpinnings and dimensions of change? Are all changes desirable – and if so what types of human beings or groups are best qualified to actualise it in a given society?

60 years ago, there was a handful of good secondary schools – Igbobi College; Methodist Boys High School; Kings College; Government College, Ughelli; Government College, Ibadan; Ibadan Grammar School; Christ School, Ado Ekiti; St. Gregory’s, Government Collage, Umuahia, Denis Memorial Grammar School, C.K. C, Hope Waddell etc.

Chile defeated Argentina on penalties here Saturday to end their 99-year wait for a Copa America crown and condemn Lionel Messi to a second straight heartbreak in a major international final.

National Under-23 coach, Samson Siasia has urged all the players he selected ahead of the African U-23 Championship qualifier against Congo to report to camp on Monday or forget it.