THE fanfare that heralded the celebration of 100 years of Ondo Boys High School seemed noble, and a sign of great achievement. However, past students and guests at the occasion of the public presentation of the book titled: One Century of Ondo Boys’ High School: The History of Nigeria’s First Community High School, could not help but lament over the deplorable state of education now. This is  as they reminisce the good old days of quality education void of religious and ethnocentric colouration.

It has come into the public domain that any person who is charged with corruption or any other charge alleging financial impropriety, should be without the service of counsel, particularly senior counsel. It is now also within the consciousness of the public that the judicial system has been turned upside down and polluted by senior counsel, whether dead or alive.

Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc (SAHCO) and ABX World, a courier and logistics company, have created a logistics initiative to bring down cost of delivering Nigeria’s fresh agro products exports to various global markets. The initiative also seeks to ramp up Nigeria’s export in this category to 800 tones per day.

The re-election of Buhari and the ruling party’s renewed majority in the national assembly impacted on the stock  market yesterday, with investors losing another N85 billion while the benchmark index fell by 0.7 percent.

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the latest attacks by bandits in Sokoto State and inter-communal conflicts in Kaduna State and warned that “mass murder of innocent people by criminals would be met with full force.”

The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) posted 41.7 percent effectiveness in the funding of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the state by 2018, a report of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) of activities of the Fund between 2017 and 2018 has revealed

OWERRI—Orlu Elders Council, OEC, has  condemned what it called “the unnecessary brigandage witnessed in our senatorial zone in the last presidential and National Assembly elections”.

Athletics legend Yusuf Alli has described the decision of the Lagos chapter of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) to organize a road race as one of the best things that happened to marathon and road races since Governor Akinwunmi Ambode revived the culture in February 2016 with the Lagos City Marathon.

lagos—A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja yesterday ordered the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, AMONI Zone, Lagos to grant clearance to one of its members, Pharmacist Eton Alexander Ani to enable him renew his 2018/2019 license.

Following the recent flood disaster in Delta State, selected health workers drawn from the most affected communities within the state  have been equipped with skills and tools for effective response to flood occurrence by the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA.