Executive Chairman of the pioneer private polytechnic in Nigeria, The Polytechnic, Ile-Ife, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin has advocated the outright scrapping of the Higher National Diploma, HND, programme and replacement with a Bachelor’s degree in Technology as obtained in advanced nations of the world.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia said on Tuesday vowed that all those responsible for the tragic fire in a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo would be punished.

Sierra Leone’s presidential election run-off will now hold on March 31, four days later than planned, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday

 The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday said it had seized 159 million tablets of Tramadol at Apapa Port in Lagos.

Nigeria has taken a further step to recover illegally acquired assets, including monies, taken to Switzerland.

CHAIRMAN, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Mr Babatunde Fowler, yesterday, allayed fears over the report by the International Monetary Fund, IMF and World Bank that Nigeria was at risk of economic crisis, saying the country will soon meet the target of the international bodies.

A disabled man, alleged to be running a one-man robbery squad arrested following his foiled attempt to burgle some shops at a shopping plaza in Shasha area of Lagos, was yesterday taken before Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court.

INVESTIGATION emerged yesterday, that Imo state governor’s son-in-law, Mr. Uche Nwosu, has deployed strategies to woo members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, for his guber ambition.

The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday held its caucus meeting ahead of a meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) scheduled for Tuesday.

CATHOLIC Bishop of Nnewi Diocese, Most Rev. Hilary Odili Okeke, has lamented the twin evil and violent activities of herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgents, saying they are promoting rising enemity, violence, insurgency, militancy, murder and wickedness in Nigeria, and warn that if something urgent is not done, the country will be in serious trouble.

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the United Nations (UN) of his commitment to conducting credible, free and fair elections in 2019.

A 36-year-old woman, Ngwu Nkeiru, who allegedly poured hot water on her housekeeper and burnt her hands and legs with hot pressing iron, was yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

CONVENER, Niger Delta Self-Determination Movement, NDSDM, Ann-Kio Briggs, has applauded former Minister for Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd) on his call on Nigerians to “rise and defend themselves.”

International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, yesterday described as belated but containing weighty, irrefutable facts and therefore must be paid attention to by Christians, the call by a former army chief and Defense Minister in Nigeria, retired Lt Gen Theophilus Danjuma to all Nigerians particularly members of Christian faith in the Northeast, North-Central and Southern parts of the country to defend themselves against the ongoing widespread massacres across the country.