Heritage Bank Limited has packaged a N200million Naira loan facility for young graduates willing to advance their dreams in small scale businesses. The Bank also gave a cash prize to Miss Onwura Onyinye Chima for outstanding performance during the service year that won her the Lagos State NYSC Director’s Award.

THE Former Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, and currently, the Provost, Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Epe, Lagos State, Professor Olu Akeusola has said that graduates of NOUN are not qualified to participate in National Youths Service Corps programmes.

Underestimating people and institutions can produce some startling surprises. Let me confess that I was a pessimist about the prospects of the University of Ilorin back in the 1980s. Despite knowing it was there, it just never occurred to me that I would have anything to do with it. I was forced to consider it when one of my dearest in the world, my daughter Onikepo (Nike) Sobowale made two decisions on her own. First, she was going to read computer science. Second, she was going to offer Unilorin as her first choice.

Ahead of its October 30th resumption date, the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Reverend Dr. Alfred Adewale Martins, has said the newly established Catholic Church-owned university, Augustine University, will contribute immensely to meeting the needs of personal, social and economic development of Nigerians and the nation at large.

According to Desmennu, waste, like every product, has its value chain and if properly programmed and harnessed, will lead to increase in internally-generated revenue (IGR) for states and greater income for the citizens. “Until waste becomes a source of income generation for everybody, we will never get out of the quagmire. About 80 per cent of waste cannot decompose because they are chemical-based but every waste can be recycled. We don’t even eat enough so organic waste is just about 30 per cent of waste generated.