The long holiday is almost here but sadly, students don’t know it’s holiday as they have to attend summer school, which deprives them of the joys of travelling to fun places or spending the holidays with families and loved ones.

In his well published diatribe against the Igbo people of Nigeria, Joe Igbokwe, the Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Lagos State chapter, who is also a son of Igbo, poured invectives on the Igbo nation while making spurious allegations against them.

In its quest to boost MBA education with e-learning, Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria has launched an online MBA programme where examinations could be written at designated centres in Lagos, Abuja and Zaria.

Abuja—Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, said yesterday that the Federal Government was determined to improve the health sector by providing adequate funds for it in the 2017 budgetary allocation.

ON Sunday April 3, 2016, a most momentous event took place at the Bourdillion, Ikoyi residence of Aremo Olusegun Osoba, former two time governor of Ogun State. In attendance were the leading lights of current progressive politics in the South West and indeed Nigeria that were instrumental to midwifing an opposition party that electorally took over power from a ruling party since 1999. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, a host of sitting governors and their representatives and other diehard progressives all converged in the house of Osoba with a singular aim: Bring Back Osoba into APC.

ABUJA—The All Progressives Congress, APC, has formally reacted to reports alleging that the Senate was contemplating to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the purported move as ‘a huge joke taken too far.’ This came on a day Chairman, Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education, Senator Aliyu Wamakko, said senators’ meetings held in his house were designed to repair the frosty relationship between the executive and legislature and not to initiate impeachment move against the President.

This is a welcome development which is long overdue. Nigerians have been clamouring for the amendment of the Electoral Act. Even Nigerians in the diaspora have added their voice to the cry. Their inclusion in the process would be a positive development for many reasons. First of all it will represent true democracy and full inclusion of all Nigerian citizens stricto sensu. However, the amendments should not only be focused on party primaries. There should be a holistic amendment of the Act.

As the fight against insurgency gets to a climax across the different theatres of operation across the north east, the need for Nigerians to support their troops in all ramifications comes to the fore. This is against the backdrop of the unnecessary politicisation of the military aspect of the campaign against the insurgents which has […]

The federal government has taken the lead to ensure that contractors in the country comply with the 2010 Workmen’s Compensation Act.

ABUJA—The Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service NIS, Mohammed Babandede, has announced the retrieval of diplomatic passports and other official travel documents from immediate past government officials.

Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi one of the eleven governorship aspirants that contested the APC primaries has said that he will not leave the party despite his dissatisfaction with the emergence of Godwin Obaseki as the party’s candidate.

I was driving through the Central Business District in Abuja when it struck me that those concrete eyesores used to fence off many key institutions in the city have been removed and roads that were once barricaded as a result of the makeshift contraptions have been opened to traffic.

OGHARA—THE Rector of Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe-Oghara, Dr. Clara Sogbaike, has said that the student whose corpse was found at the institution’s staff quarters junction on Saturday, July 2, had been away from school for about two weeks and came back a day before her dead body was found.

Microsoft Nigeria at the maiden edition of its Partner’s Awardat held recently in Lagos has recognized Signal Alliance and MainOne for excelling in delivering its solutions in the 2016 fiscal year spanning July 2015 through to June 2016.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, annulled the increment in electricity tariff recently announced by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC. Trial judge, Justice Mohammed Idris in his judgment in the suit by a human rights lawyer, Mr. Toluwani Adebiyi, challenging the increment, described NERC’s action as procedurally ultra vires, irrational, irregular and illegal. In a swift reaction, labour applauded the judgment and asked NERC and DISCOs to immediately respect the ruling, describing it as a “victory for the ordinary Nigerian who had been crushed by exploitative bills.”