Monthly allocation to state owned tertiary institutions in Delta State has been reduced by twenty-five percent even the release of the allocation has not been regular. Speaking during the familiarization visit of the new Commissioner for Higher Education, Hon. Charles Emetulu to the polytechnic, the Rector of Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe-Oghara, Dr Clara Sogbaike said: “ monthly overhead cost from the state government has been reduced by 25 per cent from four million naira to three million naira”.

LAWYERS, judicial workers and other stakeholders in Plateau State have called for an overhaul of the states’ justice sector.

PEOPLE of goodwill have been disturbed about the level of violence around our elections. Early this year, the fears here were succinctly captured in the words of Chief Emeka Anyaoku, the former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth: “Nigeria has a history of election and post-election violence and the signs are already there that the same would be repeated if nothing is done about it”.

Defending champion, Nigeria’s Ojo Onaolapo, Olajide Omotyao and three other Nigerians as well as three Egyptians secured their places in the quarterfinal stage of the ongoing International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Tour, Lagos Open holding at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium.

In its continuous efforts to blaze the trail in the education sector in Nigeria, Olashore International School has started a special training programme for carefully selected teachers across the country. The programme , tagged, The Teacher Training Programme (TTP), which kicked off last Saturday in Iloko Ilesha is meant to infuse special training skills on teachers who are carefully selected across the country as well as teachers from partner schools .

A coalition of Civil Society Organisations, under the aegis of Centre for Social Justice, CSJ, in conjunction with the United States Agency for International Development, USAID and International Foundation for Electoral Systems, IFES, have raised an alarm over the threat posed to the growth of the Nigerian economy by the huge spending by political parties in the build up to the elections.

All Progressives Congress, APC, governors, yesterday, rebuffed Tuesday’s concerted attack on the party’s presidential candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors, describing it as a reflection of the poverty of ideas of the ruling party.

The School of Environmental studies, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ogun State, has organized its first international environmental conference themed ‘Sustainability of land, shelter, urban development and management in developing countries’.

International rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, yesterday, warned that Nigeria’s economy is in a “clear and present danger,” even as data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, revealed that Nigeria earned N12.8 trillion from crude oil export in 2014.

The academic arm of Emirates Group Security, Centre of Aviation & Security Studies (CASS), and Arab Air Carriers Organisation Regional Training Centre (AACO RTC), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to extend two University Diploma programmes to members of the Arab Air Carriers Organisation (AACO). The programmes, Diploma in Aviation Security Management and Diploma in Ground Handling, are being inducted as part of AACO RTC’s training curriculum with its offices in Jordan and Egypt, and are jointly developed by Edith Cowan University of Western Australia and Emirates Group Security.