THE Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has inducted 512 graduates of the Federal College of Education, Technical, Umunze, Anambra State into the teaching profession. The inductees include those who had successfully completed their Ph.D, Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE), Masters, first degree and NCE programmes.

Fortunes of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, further dwindled in Enugu State, weekend, as a former Military Administrator of Gombe State, Group Captain Joe Orji retd), defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Worried by the huge sums of money Nigeria expends on the importation of syringes, Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, has solicited the partnership of the World Bank to establish a syringe manufacturing plant in the state.

NOTE: That the Jonathan government was decadently corrupt is not to be debated any longer. Nor should it be debated too that virtually every one in that government helped themselves scandalously to the public till. What continues to be denied though is that Jonathan himself, on whose desk the buck should have stopped, had a hand in that filthy bazaar; or in the very unlikely event he did not, at the very least he should have remorsefully borne responsibility for the humongous theft that happened under his permissive -or even if negligent- watch.

Not fewer than 10 people were reportedly killed in a clash at the Sabo area of Ile-Ife when the ancient city was yesterday engulfed in a bloody clash between the indigenes of the town and the Hausa community.

Hollywood actress Tonto Dikeh in this emotional video bears her mind on issues concerning her life, her son and her ex husband.

A law to provide framework for the regulation, development and management of Enugu State Health System and set standards for rendering health services in the Enugu State and for Other Matters Connected Therewith, otherwise known as Enugu State Health Reform House Bill 2, 2017, yesterday scaled second reading at the Enugu State House of Assembly.

ROBERT Adeyinka Adebayo, born March 9, 1928, was the former governor of the now defunct Western State of Nigeria between 1966 and 1971. He became governor after Col. Francis Adekunle Fajuyi’s death in the 1966 coup d’état.

—The National Electoral Reform Committee, yesterday, solicited for inputs from well-meaning Nigerians on ways to improve the nation’s electoral system.

The Otemunoruemu of Olomu Kingdom, Ughelli, Delta State, Olorogun Okiemute Okwagbe, has commended Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for constructing the Effuruntor/Ovwor bridge which has been neglected for many years by successive governments.

If you have the knowledge of power, nobody should even think of giving out a child to any home or baby factory

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State will soon inaugurate the Export Processing Zone, EPZ, interface committee geared towards the establishment of the Gas Revolution Industrial Park, GRIP, Ogidigben.

The naira yesterday depreciated sharply to N465 per dollar in the parallel market due to upsurge in demand for dollars importers travelling to China.

I have only encountered President Olusegun Obasanjo twice. The first time was in 2001 when his Media Adviser, the late great journalist, Mr. Tunji Oseni, invited me to Aso Villa for the Presidential Media Chat series. The second event was quite dramatic.

A hat-trick by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and teenager Christian Pulisic’s dazzling display fired Borussia Dortmund into the Champions League quarter-finals with a 4-0 thrashing of Benfica on Wednesday.