Vice President Kashim Shettima has praised Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, for establishing Nigeria’s first State Council on Skills, describing it as a game-changer for human capital development and urging other states to follow Kaduna’s example.

Former Minister of Education and Founder of the School of Politics, Policy and Governance (SPPG), Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has called on the Nigerian Senate to immediately rescind its decision suspending Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central and allow her to resume her legislative duties.

Lagos State Government has ruled out the possibility of compensation to illegal property owners and occupants displaced, following demolition of marked buildings and shanties along Iyana Oworo, Lekki coastlines.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is questioning the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Mele Kyari, over alleged financial misconduct linked to a $7.2 billion refinery turnaround maintenance project.

Beveledge Designs, an interior design and luxury furnishing company in Nigeria, has launched its new flagship showroom in Ajah, Lagos.

By Sebastine Obasi In commemoration of World Literacy Day 2025, Heirs Energies Ltd., Africa’s leading indigenous integrated energy company, and the World Literacy Foundation (WLF), a global non-profit dedicated to eradicating illiteracy, have announced the launch of the Sun Books Literacy Initiative in Rivers State, Nigeria. The initiative will directly benefit more than 500 pupils […]

European Commission said it plans to enact new measures against Israel over its attempts to undermine the two-state solution being proposed to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has advised airlines to blacklist unruly passengers to serve as deterrent to others.

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has declared that no amount of state brutality or political repression will silence the working class, insisting that every attack on its leadership only strengthened its resolve to resist anti-people policies.

In a landmark judgment that sent seismic waves through Nigeria’s political landscape, the Supreme Court recently affirmed the financial and administrative autonomy of the nation’s 774 local government areas.

On this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day, African governments have been tasked to adapt suicide prevention strategies, decriminalize suicide and invest in mental health care, even as civil society and communities are to recognise suicide as a public health and human rights issue, and not a crime or a taboo.

By Elizabeth Osayande   Del-York Creative Academy, an arm of Dell Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to empower 10,000 students of Yaba College of Technology in digital creativity, animation and post-production initiative. The partnership, signed in the Board Room of Del York office at Victoria Island in Lagos, is aimed at bridging the gap […]

By YAN YUGING New global challenges call for new concepts of global governance, and at a time when some countries move against the tide of history, China demonstrates its sense of responsibility. At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Plus Meeting held on September 1, 2025, Chinese President Xi Jinping formally proposed the Global Governance Initiative. Following the […]

The Fafunwa Educational Foundation, FEF, a non- governmental, non-political educational development organisation, is set to hold its 23rd Annual Lecture and the 18th Annual Post- Doctoral Awards in Education on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos. FEF was founded in 1995 by the Late Emeritus Professor Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa, a former Minister of […]

By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA About 47 million pupils and teachers in Smart Schools across Nigeria are set to receive free laptops and tablets this year under a new Federal Government’s initiative aimed at improving access to quality education. The initiative was unveiled during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Universal Basic Education […]