The Ogun State Commissioner for Eduction, Science and Technology, Olusegun Odubela, has disclosed that the State government would soon form a joint national inspection of schools with the Federal Inspectorate of Education in the state.

MANY Lagosians obviously had not bought the assurances from officials of the Lagos State government and militant Yoruba socio-cultural group, the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, that Lagos is safe from Boko Haram-sponsored bomb attacks.

The Nigerian Navy has charged officers and ratings of the organisation to always strive to uphold the ethics of the profession, saying it was the hallmark upon which the military was built. In this vein it announced that it will go to any length to unravel the cause of the alleged murder of a female rating by her live-in-boyfriend, a seaman. The seaman identified as Harry was reported to have murdered the rating identified as Itoya over allegation of infidelity.

It has become a tale of woes in Cross River State following ravaging flood that has rendered several families in the state homeless and turned them refugees in their own fatherland.

MOTIVATED by the level of cooperation between it and other response organisations in the country, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, says a Centre for Disaster and Emergency Management, CDEM, would soon be established for simulation exercises and training of officers on search and rescue efforts and basic disaster management techniques.