THE Rivers State Government has organised a one day training and sensitization programme on the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD for teachers and school administrators in public and private schools in the state. The Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Health put up the programme to sensitize teachers ahead of resumption for the 2014/15 academic session.

BEING risk-averse or risk-prone is a function of the brain, researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have discovered.

BREAST cancer, the most common type of cancer in women, is often seen as a death sentence by victims and their families especially in the third world. The reason is that many sufferers present very late and at that point, there is pretty little or nothing medical science can do to save them and so they die

The recently released results of the West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, for May/June 2014 have generated an uproar across the country. The results showed that about 69 percent of the candidates who sat for the examination failed to get credit passes in five subjects including English Language and mathematics.

WHEN the Information and Communications Technology,ICT, revolution began in Nigeria at the beginning of this century, stakeholders in the eduction sector were upbeat about what it holds for the sector.