It was an epoch-making accomplishment as a young lady from Bayelsa State, Miss Itari Turner, recently graduated from Brunel University, London, United Kingdom with a doctorate degree at the age of 27.

AS Bayelsa State Government intensifies efforts at resolving the issue of unpaid salaries of workers at the local government level, all the affected staff, Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE and other affiliate bodies have been urged to cooperate with the various committees going round to appraise the situation in the eight local government areas of the state.

THE African Chicken Genetics Gains (ACGG) has said it intends to transform smallholder chicken production into commercially viable enterprise with active private sector engagement that empowers rural women.

THE Senate Joint Committee on Customs, Excise and Tarrif and Marine Transport has raised the alarm about a plot spearheaded by a state chief executive to discredit the noble and patriotic duties of Committee members aimed at ending the vexed issue of revenue leakage at the nation’s Ports.

ONDO State governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, yesterday, presented N215million cheques and  farm inputs to farmers in the state

THE Future Project has, in collaboration with Microsoft Nigeria,  initiated a programme aimed at engaging youths in small and medium scale businesses to accelerate economic development through enterprise development and technology. To this end, the organizers have called interested youths to apply for the programme tagged, “Accelerate the Economy through Youth in Enterprise” (Accelerate LABS), from August 7 to 24, 2017.

VICE-Chancellor, Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, Prof. Victor Peretomode, has said that one of the factors to maintain and sustain a stable academic calender in Nigerian varsities was the need for a healthy and cordial relationship between institutions’ management and various unions in the schools.

CHAIRMAN Advisory Board, of Fast Track Schools, Mr. Tom Obaseki, has urged the federal government to increase spending in the educational sector to transform it to meet the needs of the 21st century. Obaseki, who said this at the graduating and prize giving ceremony of FasTrack Schools in Lagos, decried the state of education in the country, stating that the transformation must begin at the basic level.

THERE are critical segments of our    society that have not been properly assimilated in the scheme of things; hence we have suggested consistently in this Column that there is the crying need to return to a modified Regional System of Government. We have advocated the restructuring of the country into eight Regions under which the Middle Belt minorities of the old North; the Mid-Western minorities of the old West; and the Calabar Ogoja Rivers, COR, State Movement of the old East will be properly assimilated, once and for all. For too long, these minorities have been agitating for their own separate Regions.

ABUJA—THE Federal Government, yesterday, approved the 2018-2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF,  and the Fiscal Strategic Paper, FSP, with a commitment to   achieve seven percent growth rate by 2020, in accordance with the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan. ERGP.

TO ensure that students are prepared for the workplace and entrepreneurship, J. Soji-George & Co, a management consulting firm, has organised a three-day training programme for the graduating students of the University of Lagos, UNILAG.

Lagos—A middle-aged man, who has been feeding on his faeces while chained for 18 months in an apartment at 18 Damigoro Street, Mushin area of Lagos, was, yesterday, released by policemen attached to Area ‘D’ Command, Mushin.

ABUJA— Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said Nigeria is not as prosperous as it should be because its cities were too analog and disconnected.

lagos—In order to curb alms begging in Lagos State, the governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has disclosed that 250 physically challenged persons have been employed by the state government, to assist People Living With Disabilities (PLWDs) in the state.

Some Nigerians have bared their minds about the issue of hate speech causing tension in the country. A Vox Pop  conducted by Vanguard collated some responses from the Nigerians from their perspectives.