THE Emeritus Catholic Bishop of Issele-Uku, Rt Rev Emmanuel Otteh, has said that the decision of Governor Peter Obi to return schools taken over by government after the Nigerian civil war to their original owners would help reduce the ills in the society.

Women in Agriculture Association, WIAA, has urged the Federal Government to compel banks disbursing the N200 billion loan to farmers, to set aside part of the fund to finance women farmers in the country.

TRAINERS from Havering College of Further and Higher Education, UK, through its Education Partnership in Africa project in collaboration with Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Otto/Ijanikin, Lagos, held a 3-day workshop for selected secondary school teachers and lecturers in tertiary institutions which addressed skills gaps in innovative teaching in Nigeria to meet the Global Millennium Development Goals in education.

The spate of criminal activities in Imo State is on the rise again, as the traditional ruler of Okwuamarihe, Orsu local government area of Imo State, Eze Mike Ebighi, narrowly escaped assassination last Wednesday.

BARELY twenty-four hours after the release of the revised timetable for the 2011 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP met yesterday for several hours to deliberate on it.