The Federal Government has said it plans to re-issue its five- and 10-year bonds in the last quarter of 2015 to raise up to N270 billion after JP Morgan’s index on Wednesday delisted half of Nigeria’s maturities.

THE Chairman of Udu Local Government Area, in Delta State, Solomon Kpoma, was yesterday, impeached by the legislative council, while the local government account was also ordered frozen.

IT would be uncharitable to say that Nigeria has made no progress since independence. That would be wishing away all the massive expansions to our highways, airports and seaports; plus the fact that at independence, we had only a single university but we now have a multiplicity of universities and other tertiary institutions. We also built a befitting National Capital, which is now far removed from the susceptibility of enemy attacks from the sea, air and land.

Most people don’t start out as entrepreneurs. They choose to start their own business only after some level of work experience. It could be because they don’t like the idea of having a boss and want to step out as their own. It could be because they learned critical skills that enable them to be a leader in their own right. It could even be because they came up with a great idea in the normal course of working.

A host of Nigerian leaders, yesterday, looked at the state of the nation, 55 years after independence and returned a grim verdict: the country has under-achieved.
Noting that Nigeria started on a promising note on October 1, 1960 with huge potentials to become a super-power within a short time, they identified where the country went wrong, the challenges and direly-needed changes.

The Vice Chancellor, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria, Professor Igbekele Ajibefun, on Wednesday last week, charged the staff and students of the University to be security conscious.

NIGERIA will not meet its economic or social potential as a nation until female education attainment rates are met, Pearson’s Managing Director in Nigeria, Muhtar Bakare, has said.

Not less than four students bagged first class as Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogwa, Edo State churned out 57 graduates at her maiden convocation.

AS Nigerians eagerly await President Muhammadu Buhari’s education minister, he has been urged to focus on youth Youth Empowerment Programme through vocational education.

The Delta State governorship candidate of Mega People Progressive Party, MPPP, in 2011 governorship election, Chief Afro Biukeme, has faulted those claiming that the trial of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki is a witch- hunt.