Following its emergence as one of the higher institutions in Nigeria benefitting from the Federal Government’s Special Intervention Funds the management of the 100-year-old Federal School of Surveying, Oyo has pledged to take the delivery of digital surveying education to higher level.

The Co-ordinator, Child’s Rights Advancement Protection Initiative, Barrister Ozioma Onyenweaku has said that only education is capable of addressing the increasing incidence of child abuse and violence against children in Nigeria.
Barrister Onyenweaku made the assertion during a workshop organized by Child’s Rights Advancement Protection at Apata Memorial Schools, Isolo, Lagos.

Thousands of students who are indigenes of Lagos, Ondo, Rivers, Delta and Bayelsa States studying Medical and Engineering courses in various tertiary institutions are currently smiling to banks, courtesy of the N118 million scholarship funds made available by Agbami partners, a group of oil companies.

Confucious Institute has been established at the University of Lagos which will provide Chinese language teaching at various levels, teaching Chinese language instructors and providing Chinese language teaching resources.

The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Ahmed Modibbo Mohammed has said that Basic Education is not only paramount to National Development, but for development to be sustained, it has to be anchored on sound and relevant Education.

WHAT could have made a Police commissioner who allegedly commended a group for its peaceful conduct, interacted with it, and above all, praised it for its constitutional behaviour, to suddenly after a private “meeting” with the another group, turneround and declare leaders of former wanted for alleged criminal conspiracy, theft, attempt to commit culpable homicide, mischief and inciting disturbance?

WAEC being conservative, unless we go back to the board for change. The examinations are not attached to the months. It’s just a nomenclature. Also Nigeria plays prominent role in WAEC affairs. When we changed to 6-3-3-4 system, others went the same way with Nigeria.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowopejo Barring any unforeseen developments, communities in Lagos with no electricity transformers or malfunctioning transformers will have every cause to rejoice soon if an intervention plan by the Lagos State government to solve electricity problem in the state is anything to go by. The plan was said to have been […]

AS tension grips the nation over planned deregulation of the oil sector and the privatisation of the country’s refineries, the Education rights Campaign (ERC) has threatened to mobilise Nigerian students and youths for nationwide protest actions and lecture boycotts should government fail to halt this policy.

DRIVING along the ever-busy Bank Anthony Way, in Ikeja, one will not fail to notice the campaign banner stretched through the length of the road. One’s curiosity is immediately aroused by the campaign message: “Lagos Own the Game”.

His name is Abiye Sekibo. An Okrika, his name, Sekibo Mina Konju Orike, means a dancer does not see his back. He used his name to illustrate the futility of succession by anointment which he says does not guarantee loyalty.

Miracles are no accidents. They are the responses of God to the desperate faith of men and women. We don’t wait for miracles, we work at them. I want you to know that every need answers to a miracle! Every challenge bows to a wonder, and every desire surrenders to a sign. When you take your place in God, every devil will no doubt give way to you on earth. I believe that before you get to the end of my teaching this month, you would have been initiated into a world of signs and wonders.

THE prevalence of evil in the world today does not mean that God does not exist but is a test of faith for true Christians, according to the president of God’s Kingdom Society (GKS), Brother Oseghale Emmanuel Aighalua, who admonished Christians not to allow the fear and worries of present day life to seduce them from “the firm and settled principles of Christianity”.

PRESIDING Bishop of Rhema Christian Church, Sango Ota, Dr. Taiwo Akinola has called on all Nigerians to always pray for God’s mercies upon the nation, stressing that only divine intervention can put the country back on the path of socio-political development.

They vowed to kill me and my unborn baby and my three and half year ~old daughter if my husband failed to pay them N20 million as ransom for our release”. These were the words of Mrs. Nkechi Odidika who, alongside her little daughter, Sandra have just been rescued by Men of the Benue State Police Command from the den of kidnappers who abducted them two days ago from Kebbi state en~route one of the southern states.