By Etop Ekanem LAGOS—Ahead of the new school session commencing  September 5, the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board’s (LASUBEB) EKOEXCEL has asked parents and guardians to enrol their children in public primary schools for maximum learning gains. EKOEXCEL is an educational intervention launched in 2019 by Governor BabajideSanwo-Olu to transform Lagos public primary schools […]

By Kingsley Omonobi Following the kidnapping of the wife and two children of serving lawmaker Hon Ibrahim Aminu, in Katsina State by bandits, the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Commanded by DCP Tunji Disu has arrested three (3) informants to a syndicate who specialize in kidnapping victims for ransom. Making this known in a statement, […]

By Steve Oko Hundreds of hapless patients who had converged from different parts of Osisioma Local Government Area of Abia State, were Sunday, frustrated when a team of medics coming to attend to them were prevented by a group of armed youths suspected to be thugs from accessing the venue of the exercise. The ongoing […]

By Joseph Erunke The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has again, rolled over its ongoing strike. The action of the nation’s public university lecturers’ union, came after its National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Abuja. READ ALSO: The meeting which began late Sunday at the University of Abuja’s headquarters of ASUU, ended early […]

South-South Elders Progressive Forum, SSEPF, has accused the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, of a ploy to mislead President Muhammadu Buhari in the constitution of a substantive Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The forum, whose membership comprises elders cutting across the Niger Delta states, alleged […]