By GBENGA OLARINOYE, Osogbo REtirees of the Obafemi Awolowo University OAU, Ile Ife Osun state under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, have called on the Federal Government to review the scheme to give succor to those that have served their country faithfully and selflessly. At a briefing in Osogbo on activities lined up to mark […]

The nation’s learning resource company, Learn Africa Plc, has congratulated the National Examinations Council (NECO) and the candidates that sat for the NECO June/July 2013 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCE) on the Significant improvement recorded in the performance of students and the reduction in the incidence of examination malpractice.

The Rivers State Government has flagged-off its 2013 Free Education Project. The flagging-off ceremony took place at the Dr.Christie Toby Model Primary School, Elekahia, Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt.

The decision of the Federal Government to change the University of Lagos UNILAG, to Moshood Abiola University has been reverted, UNILAG Vice-Chancellor, Professor Rahamon Ade Bello has said. He disclosed this during the UNILAG Advancement Alumni cocktail/dinner held at Sheraton Hotel, Lagos on Saturday.

LAGOS State Police Command has smashed a notorious car- snatching syndicate on its wanted list, arresting three suspected members of the gang at Akala, Idi-Oro area of Mushin, Lagos.

BAUCHI State has for some time been featuring regularly in the news for the wrong reasons, especially those bordering on terrorists attacks. As if to compound the situation, stories of armed robbery have also begun to make the front pages. The frequency of these tragic occurrences leaves one with the impression that people in the state had become inured to them.

Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, have arrested three suspected members of a robbery gang who robbed popular Fuji star, Pasumu Wonder, of his Range Rover Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, and an unspecified amount of money, four months ago in Lagos.

Come, are we progressing or retrogressing? asked a perplexed Iyke, a commuter in the Apapa-bound bus as a young girl walked up to the commuter bus at Oshodi-Oke busstop hawking her wares which included potato chips.

Wonders, they say, shall never end. This aptly described how a gigantic Iroko tree, mysteriously ignited fire on top of itself amidst heavy down pour last week at the University town of Nsukka, Enugu State and collapsed after several hours of the raging inferno.

A 40- year-old businessman, Peter Williams, was Monday, arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, for allegedly receiving a 40-feet empty Container valued at N1.5million.