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The minister of education has made it clear that teaching and vocational training will be paramount in this year’s budget and this is because it has been observed that the profession has suffered immensely compared to others in the country. In th...
As part of modalities to checkmate the spate of examination failure, especially in NECO, WAEC and JAMB, forced career choices made by parents on their children have been identified as a major root cause. This was disclosed by the chief executive secret...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has dissociated itself from an unauthorized text message which had been in circulation and is aimed at misleading and defrauding unsuspecting members of the public. The registrar and chief executive o...
Students and non students all over the country have continued to react to the broadcast and published statements of the national president of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Comrade Dauda Mohammed, and have referred to his u-turn o...
Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Lagos State Polytechnic Chapter (LASPO), Mr. Arowolo Olatunji has said that the on-going strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and removal of fuel subsidy by President Goodluck Jonat...
The Delta State Police Command has said that 261 suspected kidnappers were arrested in the state in 2011 even as 46 others have been arrested in 2012 and were assisting the police in its investigation. Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Mm...
An Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that three ex-convicts brought before it for alleged armed robbery be remanded in prison custody. Chief Magistrate Akin Akintoye gave the order when Ajibola Aliu, 53; Kayode O...
Volume One: 06 January, 2012. Youtube links: Part 1: http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRaY6E6Qj1k Part 2: http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSG91QmdmYs Part 3: http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FlyZd29KI Part 4: http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=QerOGUkHJT8 ...
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi wants his team to train in Nairobi, Kenya, for two weeks leading to a Nations Cup qualifier against Rwanda on February 29. Chairman technical committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Chris Green, disclosed this af...
Against the backdrop of the Christmas Day Bombing of the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla and other acts of terrorism in the country, the Senate last week frowned at the fragile security situation in the country and called for urgent action...
Engineer Markus Gundiri is the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) gubernatorial candidate in the election holding in Adamawa State next week. In this interview with newsmen, he spoke to a select journalists on his ambition and the form of governmen...
Mr. Kayode Akinmade is the Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Ondo State. In this interview with VICTOR ORIOLA, he said Governor Segun Mimiko had been able to change the face of governance in the state. He also maintained that the exit ...
Human capital development through purposeful re-engineering of the nation’s vocational system has been the primary objective of the Lagos State government that has seen it as the sure path to real economic emancipation of citizens and eradication...
When the Federal Ministry of Works officials visited Ogun State last year to assess the conditions of roads in the state, the presidential audit team, led by the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Engineer Ejike Egbemena, lauded the state government f...
Many of his political opponents see him as a frustrated politician; but since 2009, when the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) was formed to put pressure on the National Assembly to cede power to President Goodluck Jonathan due to long absence of late Pre...