In the Women Ministry, we treat a lot of issues; we address creativity, empowerment, marriage, womanhood; taking your place as a wife but recognizing the fact that the man is the head of the family, etc. It’s fashionable to dress with half of your boobs out now, but you must know that the fashion trends of the world are not for believers.

T he Federal Government has granted amnesty to Niger Delta militants, who have been fighting government and oil multinationals over the deplorable conditions of the Niger Delta region as a result of activities of oil companies. It will be recalled that President Umaru Yar’Adua, had deployed the military (Joint Task Force) to the region to […]

By Awa Kalu Thus, an illegal association cannot be said to be for the protection of any person’s rights. It is for this reason that there is no association of prostitutes, of armed robbers or of devils. It is also for this reason that section 137(1) of the constitution and other sections dealing with disqualification […]

By Innocent Anaba The judgment of the Delta State Governorship Election Tribunal which dismissed the petition filed by the Action Congress’ governorship candidate for the state, Mr. Peter Okocha against the election of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate came to mane as a surprise. This is because not many people knew the […]

….Text messages, computer print-outs could become admissible in court By Emmanuel Aziken When the Evidence Act was first enacted 64 years ago it neither envisaged the use of computer technology nor the use of mobile telephone text messages in fraud. It is thus not surprising that clear evidence of the use of computers and mobile […]

By Hessington Okolo According to the Black’s Law Dictionary sixth edition, Amnesty  means ‘a sovereign act of forgiveness for past acts, granted by a government to all persons ( or to certain class of persons) who have been guilty of crime or delict, generally political offenses- treason, sedition, rebellion, draft evasion, and often conditioned upon […]

The other projects which Yabatech proposed to the ETF Visitation team is procurement and deployment of interactive teaching and learning platforms for each of 100 model lecture rooms, spread across all departments and provision of e-books, audio-visual/multimedia equipment and furniture in the library, estimated to cost N100m and N50m respectively.

Addressing the delegates, President of NUPENG, Comrade Peter Akpatason, praised members for standing steadfast despite the challenges posed by globalisation, global economic recession and the crisis in the Niger Delta which has remained the greatest threat to job security of members.

These revelations came from the National Executive Director of CILT, Nigeria, Mr. Fracis Ehiquese last week at the Institute’s extra-ordinary general meeting. According to him, two examination diets will hold each year, adding that the training providers will set and forward examination questions to CILT, Nigeria for moderation which will, in turn, send it to international arm of the institute for final moderation.

THE traditional belief, where girl child is rated as not worthy to be invested in her education has deprived many women of the opportunity to assume leadership positions in the country.

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.