She informed that the academy recorded its highest number of student during the year: 21 for medical programme into the first year at the University of Debrecen, Hungary.

“The Corp has been able to provide a platform to engage professional Nigerians in diaspora to interact with the Nigerian youth for purposeful direction in adjusting to adulthood, noting that private individuals are more available to render such support and give them the needed leadership direction,” Soyode explained.

Rumour peddlers in Enugu have been talking about alleged standoff between Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and his predecessor,Sullivan Chime, following a motion adopted by the state House of Assembly to probe the Internally Generated Revenue,IGR,generated between 2008 and June 2015.

Located at Plot 10, Amadi Street, co-owners, Captain and Mrs Aigbogun Alloysius, said government should partner well-meaning people to give “sound healthcare to the citizenry.”

With a vast experience that spans a decade in studio production and music engineering , 4Stage has fashioned out the kind of music youths both, in the church and on the street, yearn to listen to without deviating from its main objective.

I believe the Federal Government has done remarkably well considering the situation we found ourselves in after we were sworn-in on May 29, 2015. People tend to forget that the economic downturn actually started manifesting in 2014 due to a growing mismatch between the profligate and reckless spending of the previous government fueled by high oil prices and the resultant shock to the system when prices started to fall. Nigeria’s case was worsened by the fact that with the falling oil prices, our production targets were affected by militant activities in the Niger Delta and outright theft of the nation’s crude on a massive scale perpetrated with the full backing of government officials.

I am certain there are professionals within the state with institutional memories and the required competencies, but having been away from the system, I cannot make a direct assessment of the current state of facilities which were all put in place at that time. If those facilities are still in place, in the conditions which we left them, then one might assume so. However, if they have been left in disrepair and allowed to decay, then one cannot give such assurances.

When veteran Yoruba actor, Adebayo Salami, popularly known as Oga Bello speaks, there is little else to do than to listen. With more than 50 years of experience in the movie industry, everything he says must be gold or one may just as well be doing away with wisdom as the man radiates wisdom, knowledge and experience.

The road was not motorable during rainy season due to flooding, residents living around the bad roads had resorted to using canoe and wooden bridges to cross from one end to the other.

China, Cuba, Egypt, Bulgaria, Thailand and the convention’s host country, India, for the conference may have a hard time having delegates approved to attend the event and vote on issues that impact their citizens.

Also, Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), AOCED Chapter said: “We are appealing to civil society groups, the NLC, eminent lawyers, journalists, student union leaders, religious leaders and traditional rulers, judges and the masses to prevail on AOCOED Council to do the needful on the report to save the College from being financially crippled.”

Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and environmentalist, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has advised governors in the Niger Delta region to construct roads with concrete instead of bitumen because of the watery terrain of the region.

Most people know about condoms but few acknowlege their relevance. They top family planning items across the world. Meanwhile, whereas condoms are a household name in Nigeria, many people don’t use them. Reports show that about 1.8 billion sexual activities occur in Nigeria yearly, 80 percent of which are unprotected, a development that may be contributing to the burden of infectious diseases as HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea and other sexually transmitted infections, STIs. Chioma Obinna examines the position of condoms in family planning issues and in driving the control and prevention response to STIs.

Obasanjo, in story titled “I and others brought Buhari to salvage Nigeria”, published on August 20, 2016, by a national daily.

(Jottings and Notes on Nigerian affairs by Professor Ladipo Adamolekun during his years in international development work, 1987-2004. Although they are mostly commentaries on past events covering 1987-1998, they have relevance for the country’s present and future).