AFTER 44 years of its establishment, the University of Jos has moved its administrative block from its temporary site at Bauchi Road, to the permanent site at Naraguta community of Jos, the Plateau State capital. 

ABUJA—THE special investigative panel set up by the Federal Government to probe the circumstances that led to the death of former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, on December 18, 2018, ruled out politics from the killing.

No Super Eagles player has made the CAF Best XI after Group stage of the ongoing 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

The first twenty appointments made by the newly-elected President served notice to us that our hope may have been misplaced. Virtually all the important appointments went North

TRAGEDY was averted recently as 94 passengers and six crew members of a plane operated by Air Peace narrowly escaped death after the aircraft almost crashed in Port Harcourt. The aircraft on flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt reportedly skidded off the runway at Port Harcourt International Airport in Omagwa, Rivers State, on Saturday June 22, 2019.

THE overall best candidate in the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination, UTME, Ekene Franklin has added another boost to his outstand performance feather to his cap by winning the 2019  outstanding gifted child in American Mathematics Competitions, AMC.

Owerri—armed herdsmen in Obokofia, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, yesterday, caused pandemonium when they invaded the community, shooting sporadically.

The entry into force of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, Agreement on the May 30, 2019, is indeed a historic event in the long march for economic integration in Africa. The AfCFTA seeks to create a single unified market, thereby boosting Intra-African trade from 17% to 52% by 2022, and increasing the Gross Domestic Product of the African continent from USD2.5trillion to USD25trillion by 2050.

IN its desire to teach pupils to read correctly and improve their literacy, GE Nigeria is collaborating with a non-profit organization – United for Kids Foundation (UKF)    to set up a Mobile Library for    literacy development programme called ‘Read To Me’.   The Read-To-Me mobile library programme which kicked off    in four primary schools in the Akowonjo area of Alimosho Local Government, would cover the entire Lagos State.   About 350 children are currently enrolled in  this initial launch of the Mobile Library in four schools, planning to reach  1,800 children per annum.The Mobile Library, according to GE, is the first of many to come, adding that it would teach pupils to read  and improve their literacy.

President Muhammadu Buhari suspended the controversial “Ruga” programme in anger, saying that its   implementation is at variance with the National Livestock Transformation Plan, NLTP, developed by the National Economic Council and approved by the Federal Government.