A LECTURER in the Department of Economics and Development Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Prof.Philip Alege, has called for the review of the curriculum in Macroeconomics Studies so as to move away from static and single equation approach to analyzing and predicting ecomomic trends.

FEDERAL and state governments have been urged to give incentives to operators of private educational institutions in the country as a way of encouraging them to do more.

RECENTLY, during the 45th convocation ceremony of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the university”s Visitor, made a policy statement that may eventually change the admission policy into all federal universities. Buhari, who was represented on the occasion by the Deputy Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Suleiman Yusuf, abolished the use of catchment areas as one of the criteria in admitting students into federal universities beginning from next year.

A Shari’a Court ll sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna on Thursday ordered one Khadija Ishaq to return N22,000 dowry to her husband, Adam Hashim in order to be redeemed from their union.

UNSUBSTANTIATED claims of potency of some medicines, both orthodox and traditional, to snare gullible buyers, have been proliferating in our society. The regulatory authorities, since the exit of the late Prof. Dora Akunyili, appear to have gone to sleep in their duties regarding this danger.

Federal and state governments have been urged to give incentives to operators of private educational institutions in the country as a way of encouraging them to do more. The Chancellor of South Western University, Okun Owa, Ogun State, Engineer Babatunde Adewale Odufuwa made the call at the maiden convocation of the university held at the […]

The Our Water Our Right campaign spearheaded by the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, has won the Transformative Cities 2019 People’s Choice Award in the water category.

SHORTLY after overthrowing Muhammadu Buhari’s military junta on August 27, 1985, Ibrahim Babangida set up what he called the Nigerian Political Bureau. The 17-member panel inaugurated on January 13, 1986, with Samuel Cookey, a professor of political science, as chairman was charged with the responsibility of refocusing Nigeria’s political trajectory by chiseling out a new socio-political order. 

Empowerment giant and member representing Ndokwa East State constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Friday Ossai Osanebi has released the sum of Thirty Million Naira to train and empower jobless youths from the three local government areas of Ndokwa Nation, and make them employers of labour.

No fewer than 2,000 repentant Youths who terrorised Gusau, Zamfara,  handed over 190 locally made rifles and shotguns to Gov. Bello Matawalle at the Government House, Gusau.