….Decisive actions will be taken against singer, says Hisbah, Police By Bashir Bello KANO – Angry youths have on Wednesday staged a protest over what they described as blasphemy against the Holy Prophet, Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in a song composed by a youth, Yahaya Aminu Babangona. Babangona, a resident of Sharifai quarters in Kano Municipal […]

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday advocated stiff penalties for electoral offences such as election rigging and ballot snatching. 

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday dismissed a US offer to help the Islamic republic fight its coronavirus outbreak, charging that “vicious” American sanctions are depriving the country of medicine. Iran has scrambled to halt the rapid spread of the virus that has claimed 92 lives out of 2,922 confirmed infections in the past two […]

THE National Youth Council of Nigeria Enugu, NYCN, in Enugu state has disclosed that no less than 97 per cent of the present local government chairmen in the state are youths with ability to enthrone good governance at the grassroots.

LIKE some other sectors, education is facing serious challenges in the country and the factors militating against its growth are known to most people. Also, everybody agrees that there is need to save the sector, but the question is how do we save education from total collapse? Saving the sector also needs considering various stakeholders in the sector. These include the teachers, parents/guardians, the government and even the pupils/students. Other factors such as funding the sector, the curriculum to teach the pupils/ students are also important. It was in the light of this that people from different parts of the country converged on Lagos to discuss the way forward. The promoter of the event tagged: #SaveEducationNow# was a group, Concerned Parents and Educators, CPE.

Not all seems well with the ruling All Peoples Congress, APC, as  an Abuja High Court, yesterday,  suspended its National Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole.

BLISS Team Educational Services, Bred Hub, has called on the Federal Government to introduce Artificial Intelligence in school curriculum as part of measures to prepare this generation for the future.

A PYSIOTHERAPIST, Mr Jide Alaje, has urged parents who are searching for good schools for their children to look out for schools with all-round education in sports and learning, adding that sports develop students’ brains faster.

THE Principal of Corona Secondary School, Agbara, Ogun State, Mrs Chinedum Oluwadamilola, has advised students to complement their sporting talents with academics to help them get the best out of life.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has widened the permissible activities of Micro Finance Banks (MfBs) to include the issuance of commercial papers (CPs) and appointment of agents under the Agency Banking Model.