LAGOS state government has terminated the contract awarded to Plycon Nigeria Limited, to construct the 7.5 kilometer Ipaja-Ayobo road in Alimosho Local Government.

Vanguard gathered that the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode terminated the contract awarded to Plycon Nigeria Limited, following series of complaints from residents over the slow pace of work done by the contractor.

Speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Mr. Aniekan Uko, has urged practicing journalists in the state to always uphold the ethical and professional conducts by carrying out their duties including sustaining the Nigerian democracy.

Police in Bayelsa State have confirmed the arrest of three armed robbery suspects at Sabageria/Okoloba in Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of the state.

Armed men, suspected to be sea pirates, yesterday, ambushed two speedboats and allegedly kidnapped three persons along the Ogbia-Brass waterways of Bayelsa East senatorial district, Bayelsa State.

Nigeria faces a myriad of problems in her educational sector. Some of these problems are over-crowding in schools, reduced quality of staff, inadequate facilities in school and above all, the problem of developing an academic standard that will develop pupils who are at par with their counterparts globally.

THE announcement concerning the change of policy was made by Mr Soji Eniade, the state’s Head of Service. In addition, “pupils in secondary schools in the state would start paying N3,000 per session.” Oyo is the first, but will not be the last state, even in the old Western Region to jettison the long-held pretense to free education. Soon, states paying for JAMB and UMTE will also pass the buck to the parents.

Former Commissioner for Education, Rivers State, Dame Alice Lawrence-Nemi, has urged students to leverage on the technology available to them by acquiring more knowledge, noting that many students’ are not measuring up computer has called for support former The African Futuretrust Model United Nations,TAFMUN adding that it will revamp ailing education sector of Nigeria.

ABUJA – Worried by incessant mass failure of candidates in examinations in Nigeria, West African Examination Council, WAEC, has challenged the Federal Government to review the nation’s education policy to create a comparable standard among the 36 states. The Regional Head of WAEC Nigeria, Mr. Charles Egurudi stated this in Abuja while speaking to journalists on conduct of WAEC examinations in Nigeria and international practice of test on students.

IT is widely believed that education is the best legacy parents can bequeath to their children. Thus, in nations like the US, Sweden and the Philippines, education is compulsory to a certain level for citizens. For many parents in developing countries who know the importance of education, though poor and uneducated, they can sell their property or go a borrowing to pay their children’s school fees.

The impact of continued decline in the international oil price has dragged down growth indices in the Nigerian economy in the second quarter, 2015. According to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, released yesterday, Gross Domestic Product, GDP, expanded 2.35 percent on an annual basis, compared with 3.96 percent a quarter earlier. Quarter on quarter, real GDP increased by 2.57 percent.