A former university administrator, Professor Laide Abbas, has called for the immediate scrapping of the Nigeria Universities Commission, NUC, saying the Commission is killing creativity.

Students, a quarterly resource for students at all levels, has been launched with the first volume spanning January to March 2016.

lagos—The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till February 10 to hear an appeal by Honeywell group, seeking to vacate an order limiting it’s financial transaction.

Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh has explained that his team’s failure at the African Nations Championship was not a matter of tactical deficiency.

Senator Danjuma Laah, yesterday faulted the recent free feeding program introduced for the 1.8 million primary school pupils of Kaduna state at N50 per meal by the Governor Nasir El-Rufai-led government.

THE Statesman-Columnist bears a heavy burden. Quite often, he is torn between two worlds: even where he constantly has an opportunity to privately advise on critical issues – and that’s the extent to which the political class expects him to go – his audiences still want to know his stand, if only as a pointer to the direction they should be looking at.

Genotype Foundation, a charity, non- governmental organisation, has called on Nigerian youths to know their genotype/ blood group before going into marriage to reduces cases of sickle cell disorder in the society.

The Supreme Court, Wednesday, upheld the election of Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, even as it dismissed the appeal that was lodged before it by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state, Mr Adegboyega Isiaka.

Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral John Jonah (retd), yesterday, described as “untrue,” claims that the recent setting up of the Establishment Committee by the state government to ascertain the true number of civil servants on its payroll was targeted at sacking workers over partisan politics and retrenchment in the civil service.

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Wednesday gave a press conference at the Geneva Press Club to a packed audience of diplomats, policy makers and journalists where he gave details of his post presidential focus and touched on some of the roles his administration played in key areas of the Nigerian and West Africa polity, with particular emphasis on Security and Education.

Fiery Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana, on Wednesday, replied the rejoinder by Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who described as malicious his (Falana’s) application to the Special Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over her role in the alleged abuse of the raging $2.1 billion arms scandal.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan during the world press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday.

US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Wednesday got a peek at the Oval Office he hopes to occupy after November’s election, meeting President Barack Obama for an hour-long discussion.

The new Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello, on Wednesday, declared his stands against corruption and impunity, said he was in a hurry to develop the state.

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