Abia State Government has vowed to prosecute parents and guardians whose children are caught hawking on the streets of the state.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji, who made this known while presenting a paper entitled The Nigeria Child on the Street: Its implication for the Future of the Country, at the launch of “Save the Street Child Aba Initiative” by the National Association of Seadogs Pirates Confraternity in Aba, added that a mobile education court, specially designed for education-related offences, would be set up.

The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, is bitting harder as Nigerians await the April 7 deadline promised by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu to end it. Vanguard photographers captured the frustration of Nigerians in search of the scarce commodity across the country    

Egyptian players are now having the last laugh on Zamalek’s Nigeria-born midfielder Moruf Yusuf after their country sent the Super Eagles packing from AFCON 2017.

In its renewed efforts towards addressing the vaccum created as a result of the removal of history as a subject from the school curriculum, the management and staff of Cyndees International Schools, Ewu Owa Gberigbe, Ikorodu, Lagos, took a practical step recently,when it took the children on an excursion to the Badagry Slave Centre.

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Cross River State, Mr Godie Akpama, has said that the appointment of former Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, and a former governor of Cross River State, Mr Clement Ebri, into the APC Board of Trustees has significantly strengthened the party to get its rightful position in the state.

Thought Pyramid Art Gallery is one of the biggest galleries in the country, and definitely the biggest in Abuja. The gallery which has changed art history of Abuja is the brain child of Mr Jeff Ajueshi, who incidentally is the curator and Director. A native of Oghara, Ethiope West Local Govenment Area of Delta State, Jeff who did not study art, but is now one of the greatest art promoters in the land, in this interview reveals the motivation for establishing the gallery, the challenges, the choice of Abuja and other sundry issues.

In the three tears left to this administration, we have given ourselves the target of 10,000MW distributable power. In 2016 alone, we intend to add 2,000MW to the national grid.”

Many Nigerians have followed the trial of the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh closely. Interestingly, the court trial has now been subjected to media trial.

Arsene Wenger says Alex Iwobi’s decision to play for Nigeria is a loss for England after he inspired Arsenal to a 4-0 win over Watford.

Any state or nation that doesn’t plan or think of tomorrow, does not have a right to exist because if whatever you exist for is for now, then you have missed everything about life because there’s much more in the future than what you are seeing today.

The Ecobank Rapid Transfer has been named as the official money transfer service for the 4th Okpekpe 10km Road Race, scheduled to hold on May 7 in Okpekpe town, Edo State.

Chief Olusegun Osoba, the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Sunday returned to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The present economic downturn occasioned by dwindling oil prices in the international market, has not only led to frantic calls for economic diversification, it has also opened our eyes to our deeply flawed laws currently inhibiting business competitiveness and obstacles on the way of investors – foreign and local – who genuinely want to invest in the country. The concomitant negative effect of these deeply flawed and obsolete laws over the years had seen the whittling of businesses in Nigeria at a geometric rate and the permanent lockdown on long term investments in our potentially huge non-oil sector. Therefore, it has become imperative to remove the anti-business obstacles if the urgent quest to navigate the economy away from hitting the rocks due largely to over dependence on revenue from crude oil exports is to be achieved.

The first elected civilian Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Deipreye Solomon Alamieyeseigha will finally be buried on Saturday, April 9, in his Amassoma country home, Bayelsa State.

The Rotary Club of Isolo has empowered about 20 persons with tools and equipment to further enhance local output and encourage entrepreneurship among people living within Isolo community, commissioning a one block of two classrooms at the Isolo Comprehensive Senior High School, Alabe.