The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund) has charged the 226 public tertiary institutions statutorily benefiting from its interventions to inculcate efficient service delivery that would ensure that Nigerian higher institutions compete favourably with the best in the world. The fund warned that its desire to achieve results in line withContinue Reading
A law of Solon prohibited school being open before sunrise or after sunset to prevent the boys being exposed to the moral dangers of the deserted streets. But whether there were fixed hours for gymnastics and for music, and what they were, we can only conjecture. Nor do we knowContinue Reading
Tragicomically, the Guardian predicted that, by 2007, Blair’s triumph would be seen as ‘one of the great turning-points of British political history… the moment when Britain at last gave itself the chance to construct a modern liberal socialist order’. (Ibid) Pilger was right, Rusbridger et al were disastrously wrong. BlairContinue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that would allow him to stay in office for two more terms until the year 2036. The legislation, officially approved by Putin, came after changes to the country’s constitution last year that allowed the 68-year-old Russian leader to run for two moreContinue Reading
Major European Nations Suspend Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine Germany, France and Italy became the latest countries to suspend use of the COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca says 37 reports of blood clots out of 17 million people vaccinated in Europe Germany, France and Italy last week became the latest countries to suspendContinue Reading
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is set to screen at least three million children for acute malnutrition in the northeast. Folashade Adebayo, UNICEF’s Communication Officer in Nigeria, said in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Monday that the screening would be done with a grant from the government ofContinue Reading
25-year-old CHRISTINE KABAZIRA is one of the two students who attained a First Class Degree in Journalism and Communication. She scored a CGPA of 4.40 emerging second best in her class. Ms. Kabazira is one of the students who will be awarded degrees and diplomas of Makerere University at theContinue Reading
Today, a simple marker on a street corner in Memphis, Tennessee commemorates the People’s Grocery lynching. In 1892 three black men, co-owners of a store giving white businesses a run for their money, were attacked, fought back and were arrested. They never stood trial. A white mob broke into theContinue Reading
American journalist, Gordon Duff, indeed once saw tomorrow. Yet when he wrote in 2011 about a conspiratorial plan by “outside powers” to destabilize Nigeria and balkanize it, not many took him seriously. But 10 years on what he said is fast becoming a sad reality as many now feared thatContinue Reading