FEC budgets N700m for completion of secretariats in AnambraGombe, others
Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday, approved N700 million for the completion of federal secretariats in Anambra, Bayelsa, Gombe, Nasarawa, Osun and Zamfara states.
18-yr-old Benue student electrocuted while charging phone
MAKURDI—An 18-year-old Senior Secondary 3 student of Jesus College, Otukpo, Benue State, Godwin Ejeh, has been reportedly electrocuted in the school hostel.
Senate mulls stiffer penalties for drug offenders
THE Senate, yesterday, decried the flexible penalties imposed on drug offenders by judges in the country. This came on a day the bill to amend the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Act passed second reading.
Mikel belittles Mourinho’straining methods
SUPER Eagles captain John Obi Mikel said Chelsea players were fitter and better under present coach Antonio Conte, unlike last season when they struggled for form under former coach Jose Mourinho.
Teaching Maths requires a lot of emotion – Teacher
MRS. Essien Bassey, a Mathematics teacher at Pegasus High School, Eket, Akwa Ibom State, has said that her method of “preaching mathematics like a church sermon” has helped greatly in sustaining the interest of her students in the subject.
IIDA: How Ibrahim, Daomi, Uwene emerged winners
By Dayo Adesulu MASTER Salisu Ibrahim, Miss Favour Uwene and Master Babatimileyin Daomi have won the 2016 Indomie Independence Day Award (IIDA) for Nigerian heroes. Declaring these winners on Saturday at Victoria Island, Dufil Ltd., makers of Indomie said Babatimileyin emerged winner in the Intellectual Bravery category, Favour won Physical Bravery category, just as Salisu […]
Musdapher: The voice not heeded (1)
IN his suave, genteel, self-effacing stride, and maybe even in his judicial worldview, he seemed like a judge who preferred that ‘settled judicial waters’ be left undisturbed. And why, by the way, should ‘settled judicial waters’ not be left undisturbed?
DEFAMATION: Odili slams N6bn suit against Peterside
FORMER governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili has slammed a N6 billion defamation suit against Dr Dakuku Peterside, before a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt.
Car bomb kills 8, injures 15 in Borno
An Improvised Explosive Device, IED, placed in a commercial Volkswagen Golf car, exploded at Muna Garage Junction in Maiduguri, Borno State, yesterday, killing eight persons, including the driver/occupants and injuring15 others, according to the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA.
Rohr: Unity’ll win Falcons African title
Super Eagles Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr has advised players of the Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons to “have fun but be serious” ahead of their defence of the Women Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon next month.
Navigating the labyrinths of patterns in Ogundipe’s Mythopoeia
Ogundipe’s visual articulation is summative of the meticulous intellectualism of artistic forms of Yoruba artists over the years
