Etisalat blazing the trail in academic excellence
Worried by the declining state of tertiary education and the United States Department’s report that Nigeria is the largest source of students from sub-Saharan Africa to the US with over 6,560 Nigerian students studying in over 733 regionally-accredited US colleges and universities in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, telecommunication operator, Etisalat Nigeria, lent its weight to attempts to improve the quality of education in the country.
Court extradites Nigerian fugitive, Asemota, to UK for trial
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, ordered the extradition of one Franca Asemota to the United Kingdom to face human trafficking charges.
Expert seeks introduction of good governance in curriculum
The Editor-in-Chief, Lead Times Africa magazine, Dr. Samuel Ogar, has called for the introduction of Good Governance as a course in the university system.
MASSOB, MOSOP to partner for Biafra actualization
Leader of Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Solomon Chukwu, has said that his group was partnering a faction of Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, for the actualization of an independent state of Biafra.
NNPC bags Reuters’ award for $1.2bn oil well financing deal
The Joint Finance Team of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and its Joint Venture Partners, Chevron Nigeria Limited, were yesterday, named the winner of the Thomson Reuters/PFI Magazine ‘Africa and Middle East Oil Deal of the Year Award for 2015.’
Ex-Ondo Speaker’s abductors reduce ransom to N5m
Akure—FIVE days after the former Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr. Victor Olabimtan, was abducted, his captors have reduced the ransom from N20 million to N5 million.
