Children should be allowed to freely choose careers that they want to pursue based on interest and capability. Professor Ademola Onifade, one-time Dean, Faculty of Education, Lagos State University, (LASU), Ojo gave this advice as guest speaker at the Valedictory Service/Merit Award ceremony of Newland Senior Secondary School, Tolu Schools Complex, Olodi Apapa, Lagos.

Igelle called on the 2009 graduates to live out the motto of the college: Action not words, and that they should not be surprised to know that “people around will judges your actions or inactions, and will form their impressions about you. It goes far to indicate that there is high expectation on you.”

“You are not to build skyscrapers but standard functional buildings that won’t collapse due to bad structure.
He commended AFED for assisting in the development of the education sector, and that government cannot do it alone, with support of private initiative. He called for unity among all the operators of private schools, the need for quality and improvement of facilities.

Chairman of EASYPASS Learning Limited and the Dove and Brooks Group, Dr. Olatunji Oluwagbenga Sobodu has called on stakeholders in education sector to rise up to the financial challenges plaguing the sector in these hard times of global economic recession that makes it seemly difficult to fund schools, especially private schools.

Before now, I had wanted to study in the UK, but when I observed the lives of some people who had their education overseas and discovered that some of them could not fit into our system when they returned, I told myself I want to study in Nigeria, because I want to be able to fit into the system.

And it’s worse now that they have GSM to play with, they tell lies almost everytime you hear them talking because they know the person they’re speaking with will not see them”.

By Albert Akpor and Lamidi Bamidele To say that Lagos residents and by extension, the entire country was shocked beyond words as they woke up last week to the gory sight of a  shattered Atlas Cove jetty and the charred remains of naval personnel and some yet to identified persons after militants operating under the […]

Another house wives who lives at Ijede (Ikorodu area) said the product is being sold at N120 per litre. “My neighbour sells kerosene but it is usually N120 per litre while the filling station sells at N80, but I would need to spend N200 on a bike. It is better for car owners because they will always buy on their way home but for somebody like us, it is tough O,” said Ayilara Abeni.

The Lagos commercial bus had barely left the park when a voice with strong American accent suddenly and repeatedly shouted, “praise the Lord!”. And having obtained the desired chorus of, Amen! urged all present in the bus(except the driver) to bow their heads in prayer.

Most of the things that bring about all these things we are shouting about today are because, ab initio, people were not elected by the majority of the votes cast in the elections

Last week, I brought to you an introductory segment of this series on faith. In defining faith, I said it is behaving according to God’s Word so as to become God’s will. This week, I will show you other definitions of faith for clarity of purpose.

A CHRISTIAN cleric and leader of the Apostolic Church, Witnesses and Youth Movement, Pastor N.O.V. Ogunmuyide has blamed the increasing number of social vices among the youth on endemic poverty in the country.

By Sam Eyoboka THE growing interest    among research    scientists in various parts of the world for embryonic stem cell research has been given the thumbs_down by ministers of God’s Kingdom Society (GKS) who lamented the loss of life due to the destruction of human embryos besides the dire possibility of scientists developing the capacity for […]

By  Chidi Nkwopara The people of Ohaji/Egbema LGA of Imo State are predominantly farmers.They pride themselves as “the food basket of Imo State”. They were right until the advent of the huge petro-dollar came from the petroleum as it reversed everything in the area. The once very peaceful and accommodating people somersaulted. Militancy, cultism, armed […]

By Albert Akpor LAGOS  – THE entire Bariga and environs in Shomolu Local Government Area of Lagos were thrown into utter confusion Wednesday after  a team of heavily armed police men reportedly from the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) Alausa broke into the palace of a Lagos Monarch, His Royal Highness, Oba Gbolahan Timson, the Jagunmolu […]