“All the logistics for the examination have been put in place and the examination will start on March 9 across the 400 centres in the country. The examination will last for 10 days, and will be rounded off on March 21. There are going to be breaks during the days, but the exams are going to run for 10 days,” he added.

With six films nominated for Best Film in a Drama category, anxiety has continued to mount over which of the film will clinch the prize. Pundits are tipping AY ‘s “30 Days in Atlanta” for Best Film in a Comedy category, while they are yet to come up with the film that will clinch the prize in a Drama category, given the quality of the entries that were nominated for the award.

THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, said yesterday that the Federal Government was owing it N700 billion.

As we celebrate the International Women’s Day tomorrow, two incidents in the last two weeks gave me a wake-up call. First, I met a female politician who was denied her party’s ticket to the state House of Assembly because a veteran Politician, who is an octogenarian and a lead actor in the second republic, does not deem a woman fit to represent the constituency. According to the lady, the baba told her in clear terms that a woman cannot represent his constituency and that included his daughters.

The band led by Tunde Kuboye, and his wife, Fran Kuboye, who died in 1997, was the dawn of the new era. It was a marketplace of ideas, where talented musicians fused classical Afro rhythm with jazz to form Afro jazz. Kuboye, together with his 15 man versatile ensemble were the talk of the town then.

Flying Eagles coach Manu Garba has said he hopes for a convincing win over hosts Senegal in tomorrow’s opening match at the 2015 AYC in Dakar.

He was only 21 years old when he graduated with a second class upper grade. Upon completion of his National Youth Service, he got a job at age 23 and worked in an accounting firm and later moved to an oil company and by the age of 27 he was already married while still developing himself before launching his own brand, Rainoil, at the age of 30 after quitting his lucrative job. One thing has helped Gabriel tremendously, and that is his mathematical skills.

The Savoy Records star artiste made this declaration recently in Cotonou, the capital of Republic Du Benin during a ceremony where she was presented with two trophies for Best Female Artiste West Africa and Best African Contemporary awarded at the 2014 All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, which held on Saturday, December 27, 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria.

SOME months ago, a 13-year-old girl turned up at the Family Planning Clinic in one of the Mother & Child Centres, MCCs, in Lagos. Family planning providers were shocked to discover, on examination, that the unnamed girl had a contraceptive device—the Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device, IUCD (a.k.a The Coil) inserted as a fertility control method.

A GRIPPING modern horror puts lover boy actor, Mike Ezuruonye (Emeka) on the edge of life, as he battles, not only to save his wife, the beautiful Omoni Oboli (Adaku) and their unborn baby, but also his investment of N120million, inadvertently, on a cemetery, glorified in a potch duplex – but too late, the resident ghost is already on rampage.