The United Nations marked the World Teachers’ Day yesterday with a warning that 6.1 million more teachers were needed to meet the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of attaining universal primary education by 2015. Two milli...
A former member of the upper chamber of National Assembly and elder statesman, Senator Suleiman Salawu, has declared that the much expected Yoruba leader will emerge soon. Salawu, who disclosed this in Osogbo yesterday in an exclusive...
Oprah Winfrey is the highest-earning woman in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. The former talk show host earned $290 million from May 2010 to May 2011, besting the second place earner, Lady Gaga, by $200 million. Here’s the ful...
In a frantic effort to effect absolute utilisation of the N34 billion Universal Basic Education (UBE) fund, the governors of the 36 states of the federation are poised to raise the issue at the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting scheduled to hold ...
An Israeli scientist, Daniel Shechtman, has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a material, quasicrystals, in which atoms were packed together in a well-defined pattern that never repeats. Such regular but non-repeating patte...
Niger State Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu has said that the mass failures recorded in schools was an indication of poor teaching and learning, and an embarrassment to teachers. Governor Aliyu who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Hon Ahmed...
The Federal High Court in Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State, yesterday ruled on its earlier judgement directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a certificate of returns to Solomon Ewuga, one time minister of stat...
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Youth Leader in Kogi State, Prince Sani Ogu Salisu, has declared that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would be sent packing in the December governorship election in the state. Speaking in a telepho...
A non–governmental organisation, the Movement For Social Justice and Equity (MSJE), has expressed concern over an alleged secret movement by some political forces in the country to persecute the former governor of Gombe State, Senator Muham...
A Bauchi-based social group, the Association for the Support of Higher Education (ASHE) has organised a civic reception in honour of the first female professor in Bauchi State, Prof. Fatima Jafar Tahir. The event, according to the Chairman of the Assoc...
As part of measures to ease the traffic bottleneck that characterize some parts of Lagos Island, the state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday commissioned the Falomo On-Ramp Bridge constructed at the cost of N2.5 billion. Speaking at the ...
The director-general, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Mr. Ajayi Femi, has appealed to the Federal Government to assist the agency to enable it to fight war against drug trafficking in the country. Femi, who stated this recently when ...
South Sudan has become the 193rd Member State of the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the agency announced yesterday. The country, which gained its independence on July 9, has already been allocated the international d...
One person was killed and another critically injured when Kajol village in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State was attacked on Tuesday by unknown assailants. The injured person is being treated at Jos University Teaching Hospital of guns...
Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Olugbenga Ashiru will, next week, preside over the United Nations Security Council’s debate on Security Sector Reform of the World body. Disclosing this in a statement made available to journalists in...