DR. Abdullahi Bichi Baffa is the Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Before his appointment in 2016, he was the Special Adviser to the Minister of Education. In this interview with Vanguard Learning, he explained reasons for some of his decisions since assuming office as TETFund boss and also discloses how institutions could benefit […]

AS academic activities for the 2017/18 academic session gathers momentum in primary and secondary schools across the country, the Lagos State government has assured of the safety of her students as adequate measures have been put in place to make public schools safer and more secure.

ASABA—THE Senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said every Nigerian should feel at home anywhere in the country, urging those with genuine reason to agitate to follow the path of conditionality, law, dialogue, love, brotherhood and peace.

And now as ‘radical’ Lamidos contend with the ‘reactionary’ Walis of their PDP, to pick its ticket, they have to worry also about the ‘aristocratic’ Atikus of APC possibly crossing carpet to trade tackles with them; even as they all have to contend with the incumbent might of an ‘autocratic’ Buhari asking for a second term

Super Eagles midfielder Ogenyi Onazi has put his failed transfer to Birmingham City behind him by making an impact for both club and country.

AS the on-going strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, enters the third week, the former Acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande has described as unfortunate how the academic and other labour unions always exclude the primary education system in their demands from governments.

THE bill for a law to establish the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC, 2017, has passed second reading on the floor of the state House of Assembly.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, yesterday, said the Ekeukwu Owerri market and Douglas Road would be renamed after Somtochukwu Ibeanusi, who died during the demolition of the ancestral market.

WORRIED by the increasing rate of gender based violence, the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT, on August 24, 2017, organized a walk in the Epe area of the State to raise awareness and sensitize residents of the area about domestic violence, rape, child abuse and all forms of sexual violence. 

Gombe State Task Force Committee on Environmental Sanitation and other Related Matters vowed, yesterday, to continue to remove campaign posters of politicians from the streets of Gombe, even if they were that of President Muhammadu Buhari.

While some see it as an unparalleled show of disloyalty; coming from an employee to her boss (President Buhari), others define it as a show of courage and fearlessness. It is interesting to note, however, that every politician contacted strongly declined to comment.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has felicitated with the players, technical crew, management, backroom staff and supporters of Plateau United FC of Jos over the club’s emergence on Saturday as new champions of the Nigeria Professional Football League.

With barely two months to the November 30 deadline given to the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) by the Federation of International Basketball Association (FIBA) to put an end to the leadership crisis rocking the federation, the National Assembly says it will do everything within its powers to ensure that normalcy returned to the sport.

Sixteen year- old, Bukola Zoffun , that recently emerged 2017 one-day governor of Lagos state has pledged to use her status to encourage Nigerian youths, especially those from ghetto areas to seek proper education.

The crisis rocking the Ekiti State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party took a new turn yesterday, when some of its members sent a protest letter to its National Caretaker Committee.