The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the Oyo State Government have signed the 2011-2012 Multiyear Programme Implementation Agreement. At the signing ceremony in Ibadan, the governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, promised to deliver sound and instit...
Minister of State for Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike, in the company of some ministry staff and journalists, paid an unscheduled visit to the Federal Government Boys College, Apo and what they found was not a sight for any civilised being. But that is wh...
The need for all children to have equal access to education for optimal development was re-inforced last weekend at the graduation and prizegiving day of Hasab Heritage School. The proprietress of the school, Mrs. Hassanat Abubakar, said th...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has charged President Goodluck Jonathan to set up a committee that will ensure the proper implementation of the mandate of the Education Trust Fund (ETF), just as it commended the presi...
Barr. Ezenwo Nyesom Wike was just appointed minister of state for education. Until his appointment, he was chief of staff to Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State. In this interview with a group of journalists, Wike bares his mind on the task ahead o...
The West African Examination Council, (WAEC) yesterday released results of the May/June 2011 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, (WASSCE) with an abysmal 30 per cent of the candidates making credits in both English and Mathematics. Deta...
The managing director of Enterprise Bank Limited, Mr Ahmed Kuru assumed duty officially at the bank’s head office in Lagos yesterday. This brings to two, the number of managing directors that have assumed duties at their new station...
Contrary to the report of the panel set up by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which indicted the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and two lawyers, Yahaya Mahmood and Alfred Agu, the National Judicial Council (NJC) yester...
The Anambra State government and the Family of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu have dispelled rumours that made the rounds yesterday that the Ikemba Nnewi had passed on insisting that the Biafran warlord was very much alive. Several people, includin...
The federal government hinted yesterday that it has doled out a whooping sum of N4.1 trillion to be used under the National Strategic Health Plan to boost the health sector up to 2015. It also approved the Stepping...
One nursing mother was killed and two others injured in a protest when soldiers raided one Islamic school at Mandara Abdu ward of Biu town of Biu Local Government of Borno State and arrested five scholars suspected to be members of Boko Haram. The inci...
Federal Government and the organised labour will tomorrow conclude and sign an agreement on the implementation of the N18000 national minimum wage, a reliable source told LEADERSHIP yesterday. The agreement which was supposed to have been signed yester...
No fewer than 11 candidates from the North East zone are in the race for the national chairmanship of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This follows the release of the guideline for congresses and national convention of the party. This is just...
Fresh facts emerged yesterday as to why youths of Bonny, in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State, home to the nation’s biggest crude oil terminal and the multi-billion dollar Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility, are poised for a conflict ...
Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday told the president of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou, that the sub-region would not accept a coup in that country. Jonathan, who was reacting ...