WE are in the new year already and most people are just trying to recover, financially, from the expenses of the Yuletide period, but life is not static and things are not too, including financial commitments. The beginning of the year is also a period of some financial obligations, such as paying house rent and in Nigeria, time to pay the school fees of pupils and students in primary and secondary schools. January is the beginning of the second term in primary and secondary schools across the country.

Perez Brisibe Suspected assassins Wednesday evening shot dead Mr Paul Onomuakpokpo, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olomu Ward 1 in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State while driving out of a site. The incident according to an eyewitness occurred Wednesday night at a building site adjacent to the palace of Ohworode […]

M Benjamin Babalola, 21, who emerged the Best Graduating Student at the maiden convocation of Mountain Top University, Ogun State, said he wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination thrice while pursuing the ambition of studying medicine in some universities in the country.

The Chairman, Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Alhaji Muhyi Magaji, says the agency has recovered N256.01 million between January and December 2019. Addressing newsmen on Wednesday in Kano, Magaji said the commission also received 3,192 cases, out of which 1,858 were resolved. He said that some of the complaints were rejected, some withdrawn […]

By Sola Ogundipe AS part of its commitment to integrate Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine practice into health care delivery in the State, the Lagos State government has inaugurated a 27-member Traditional Medicine Research Committee. At the commissioning on Wednesday, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Akin Abayomi explained that the  Committee aligns with the […]

The Lagos State  Police Command has smashed a syndicate that specialised in selling arms and ammunitions to robbery and kidnapping gangs in the South West region of the country.

I READ the brilliant article in the Vanguard Newspaper of January 6, 2020 titled: “Nigeria in Dire Need of Salvation” by my friend of over 20 years, Augustine Okhiria Agbonsuremi, a seasoned and fearless Nigerian journalist, formerly of The Guardian Newspaper and later African Independent Television, AIT, where he became famous for his programme, Political Platform, in which he lamented the in-action and complicity of the average Nigerian citizen against bad political leadership and apparent oppression and repression by the Nigerian political elite with great interest.

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has slammed a N15 million suit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over alleged consistent breaching of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011. MRA, in a statement issued on Wednesday by Mr Idowu Adewale, its Communications Officer, said NNPC violated its statutory duties under the FOI by denying access to […]

By Chioma Obinna As a commitment to ensure that adolescent girls are empowered with knowledge and skills to prevent HIV infection, unplanned pregnancy, among others, risk behaviours that hinder their successful transition into productive and healthy adults, Youth Empowerment and Development Initiative, YEDI, with support from FIFA Foundation, carried out a one-week Christmas holiday camp […]

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has pledged to make civil servants in the state the cornerstone and fulcrum of his administration during his second term in office. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Bello will be inaugurated for a second term in office on Jan. 27. The governor gave the assurance at a […]

According to the latest report regarding the world’s most powerful International Passport, the Nigerian passport places at 95, just above countries like Djibouti, South Sudan, and other war-torn countries in the middle-east.

SOME experts and stakeholders recently came together in Lagos at the Parenting Summit organised by Brainy Educare Services to enlighten parents on how to handle their children in the 21st Century and expose them to new trends and practices in parenting.

THREE members of staff of Yaba College of Technology, Yabatech, Dr. A. A. Abiodun, a Chief Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Science, Dr. Funmilayo Doherty, a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Biological Science and Mrs. Odun Orimolade, a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art, who won a Ford Foundation Development Grant for the College recently convened a strategic meeting on Sexual Harassment/ Gender Based Violence in line with the mandate of the development grant won.

Former Imo Action Alliance (AA) governorship candidate, Mr Uche Nwosu, has expressed optimism that achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration were obvious to earn the All Progressives Congress (APC) continuity in power by 2023. Nwosu, who recently returned to the APC along with his supporters, expressed the optimism in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday […]

The Federal Government is set to engage 5,000 youths through the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in five selected local government areas (LGAs) of Jigawa. The NDE Coordinator in the state, Alhaji Abubakar Muhammad, said this when he granted the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) an interview in Dutse on Wednesday. Muhammad said that the […]