Residents of Gusau metropolis in Zamfara State were shocked recently after the swollen corpse of one of their neighbours and two of her daughters were found dumped inside a nearby dam in the area. More shocking was the suspicion that mother and daughters were killed by their on blood, 25-year-old Kamal Yusuf Aliyu. The suspect who is presently in police net has reportedly given reasons why he killed his mother and younger sisters.

Professor Julius Ihonvbere is a renowned political activist, as a matter of fact one of those who fought doggedly in wrestling power from the military. He was the former Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Programmes Monitoring and Project Implementation.

Hardly a day passes on without any issue relating to Islam making the headlines in a very sorry manner. If it is not the Boko Haram ‘Islamic’ sect, it is the Ansaru ‘Islamic’ sect or better still a Michael that was converted to Islam. Even if they never had any link with Islam as a religion, or whether such heinous activities run contrary to the teachings of Islam, it wouldn’t matter to them. It is Islam here and there. It is one wrong notion or the other about the religion mainly orchestrated to decimate the religion. But no matter the persecution, Islam will outlive its persecutors.

IT was another nightmare for motorists and commuters at the Mile Two to Berger axis, Oshodi-Apapa Expressway as well as Cele- Express- Ejigbo- Ikotun Road on Wednesday night following traffic congestion that made movement to the areas nearly impossible.

If 25-year-old Emmanuel Nkwogba, who hails from Imo State, had known that going to work on the night of May 28, 2013 will cost him his life, he would have stayed at home with his family. But just as nobody knows the day or the hour of his death, he went to work and heeded the great call of all mortals.

RECENTLY, IndustriAll Global Union affiliates in Nigeria gathered at the National Secretariat of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Lagos, at a one day workshop to mark the World Day for Safety and Health.

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (UNESCO) has promised to assist the federal government in all its developmental agenda including education and security challenges in the country.

Desertification, poverty, poor soil quality, high unemployment level and more, are some of the problems a group of students led by their lecturer, Professor Raith at the Yola-based American University of Nigeria (AUN), are trying to solve.

In this interview with Vanguard Learning, the General Secretary of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), Comrade Peters Adeyemi, spoke extensively on the education sector, the role of NASU as a major stakeholder and other issues.

Some stakeholders have contradicted the recent declaration by the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqquatu Rufai, that there are only about 520,000 admission slots in the nation’s tertiary institutions. In a chat with Vanguard Learning, Dr. Andrews Jegede, the National President of the Association of Innovation and Vocational Institutions, opined that there are 103,000 more spaces available for students at Innovative Enterprise Institutions (IEIs).