Bayelsa decides: The gladiators on ground
The significance of the outing of former President Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday would not be lost on anyone. For the first time since he lost the presidential election, Dr. Jonathan appeared in a public ceremony and came out wholly to endorse his protégée, Governor Serikae Dickson for a second term.
I’m alive and’ll will keep demolishing illegal structures – El-Rufai
After about two weeks of absence from public appearances, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State yesterday showed up at a peaceful rally of local labour unions in the state and announced that he was alive and healthy, saying he would go on with the demolition of all illegal property erected on public school lands in the state
Power probe: Ministry blames NASS for power failure
ABUJA—The Ministry of Power, yesterday, blamed the management of the National Assembly, NASS, for the power outages which disrupted Wednesday’s sitting of the Senate ad hoc committee, probing the funds expended on the power sector since 1999.
I remain chairman of Osun UNESCO institute — Oyinlola
Osogbo– Controversy over who heads the board of trustees of the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, CBCIU, a category 2 UNESCO institute, Osogbo between the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and former Osun state governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola remained unsolved as Oyinlola insisted that he remains the valid chairman of the centre.
Ambode approves review of schools’ curriculum
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has stressed that the challenges of the educational sector must be tackled head on if the nation desire to be active participants in the present knowledge-based global system.
Traffic Law: Clearing agents to shut down Lagos ports
Lagos—The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, yesterday threatened to shut down the Lagos ports over restriction order on movement of trucks.
