FOR the first time since the 1999 presidential elections, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP may be given a good fight at the polls if leaders of the All Progressive Congress, APC did their home work.

IN our previous analysis, we have shown why France went to war after Al -Qaeda in Mauritania and Mali, especially, to stop the international jihad agenda and the criminality associated with this agenda. that was being visited on its citizens in its former colony.

THE lack of distinction between for-profit and not-for-profit educational institutions in the country is almost certainly linked to the fact that office holders who ought to have championed making the distinction (including imposition of tax on the for-profit institutions) are guilty of benefitting from this cheating, another form of corruption. It needs to be corrected without further delay.

HOWEVER, any critically minded observer can see the greater tension between the IAEA and North Korean State over their nuclear power development programme than is the case with their sister South Korean State.

PRESIDENT Jonathan appears to be agnostic on the subject. In this area, it would be correct to assert that there has been leadership failure.(b) The military established unitary secondary schools, again contrary to the assignment of this function to sub-national level governments in the 1963 Constitution it suspended: only higher education was on the Concurrent Legislative List.

The following are the percentages of students who obtained five credits, including English and Mathematics in the May/June WAEC over the last five years: 23 per cent (2008), 26 per cent (2009), 24 per cent (2010), 31 per cent in 2011 and 39 per cent in 2012.

Less than one month into its military offensive against the Al-Qaeda backed Islamist group in Mali, France has been sounding it loud that it would hands off the chase of the rebel group in the Sahel.

EIGHTEEN days after a faction of the Boko Haram Islamic sect announced a cease-fire following a 42-month multi-prong attack on military, police and security facilities and churches among others that claimed about 3000 lives there is still fear in the land.

INTRODUCTION: The title of this lecture, “Education sector in Crisis” in reference to any country must be considered a cause for serious concern because of the great value attached to education world-wide.

I READ Dr. Reuben Abati’s article titled ‘The Hypocrisy Of Yesterday’s Men” (February 3, 2013) which was published in virtually every newspaper in the country with amusement.

NUCLEAR proliferation/disputed nuclear power development programme: case studies across the globe: Generally, nuclear power energy related development programmes have been generating controversy between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and some aspiring nations across the globe.

Thirty four years after the Islamic revolution that ushered in the theocratic state in the Persian Gulf Nigeria and indeed will be watching closely what comes out of Tehran today as it takes stock of the socio-economic and political ramifications in Iran.

Being a paper presented by Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan,CON, at the School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, Washington, USA last week INTRODUCTION: I am greatly honoured to be here today, in the midst of professionals who have committed their time and resources to steering a formidable think-tank that fosters important global issues. […]

PARIS (AFP) – If 2012 African Footballer of the Year Yaya Toure thought a change of scenery would bring a change of luck at the weekend, he was sadly mistaken. A week after his Ivory Coast team were bundled out of the Cup of Nations by Nigeria in South Africa, the English Premier League title hopes […]

AFTER spending about five months outside the country, Enugu State Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime returned to Nigeria in the early hours of Thursday.