PORT HARCOURT—Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has expressed the belief that the disputed oil wells between Rivers and Bayelsa belong to his state, urging the Surveyor-General of the Federation to resolve the boundary dispute so the matter can be rested.

LAGOS— Barely a week after the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, suspended a 10-day strike, public hospitals nationwide are facing imminent shutdown as all the major unions of health workers under the umbrella of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, yesterday, embarked on indefinite strike.

Ifeyinwa Okafor is the Chief Executive Officer of Homes and Landscapes, an interior decorating company. Interestingly, the company does this with recycled products. In this interview with Prisca Sam-Duru, Mrs. Okafor speaks about her company’s pet project, ‘Art Arise’ and more on the need for children to be allowed to choose careers based on their talents.

FOR the first time in the history of higher education in Nigeria, a Draft National Policy on Open Educational Resources, OER, has been validated to address the dearth of learning resources in quality, quantity and currency in higher education in the country. No fewer than 340 participants at a one-day Stakeholders’ Validation Symposium at the National Universities Commission, NUC, Abuja, considered, finalised and adopted the policy document, following a motion by a member and Advisor of the National Steering Committee on Open Educational Resources (NSC-OER), Professor Peter Okebukola,  OFR.

Yenagoa—President of Ijaw Youth Council , IYC,  Mr. Oweilaemi Pereotubo, has said it will be historic in the creeks of Niger Delta for the take-off of academic activities at Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State in October 2017.