By Samson Yaki The Vice Chancellor of Nasarawa State University Keffi, Professor Suleiman Bala Muhammad has appointed a versatile and erudite Scholar, Professor Muhammad S. Rabiu as Head, Mass Communication Department of the university. Professor Rabiu who is one of the few founding academic staff and Pioneer HeadContinue Reading
By Miftahu Zakariyya Irked by the turn of political events in the country, particularly within the ruling All Progressives Congress, a lecturer with the Mass Communication Department, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and the Publisher of Education Monitor Newspaper, Malam Waziri Isa Adam (Wazirin Gwantu III), has warned that heContinue Reading
The paramount ruler of the Izere Nation of Jos East local government area of Plateau State, Rev. Isaac Wakili, has been kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers. Our correspondent gathered that the first class Monarch was kidnapped from his Palace situated in Shere District of Jos East around 3amContinue Reading
Russian attack capabilities could receive a massive shot-in-the-arm with a new Iranian kamikaze drone facility near Moscow. Augmenting defense cooperation, Moscow and Tehran are moving forward with plans to construct a new factory in Russia that could produce at least 6,000 drones with Iranian designs for the war in Ukraine,Continue Reading
By Sam Carliner A group of legal experts, press freedom activists, journalists, and public figures filled a ballroom at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to organize international opposition to the United States government’s extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. For the Belmarsh Tribunal, United Kingdom parliamentarian Jeremy CorbynContinue Reading
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto lost his Special Adviser on Female Education, Aishat Maina, on Tuesday. Hajiya Maina died in Sokoto on her way out of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential rally for Atiku Abubakar. The deceased was caught in a stampede that occurred at the exit gateContinue Reading
By Ari Rabinovitch TIBERIAS, Israel, Jan 30 (Reuters) – When the floodgates are open, a torrent of water gushes into a dry river bed and races to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, a biblical lake in northern Israel that was being lost to drought and the growingContinue Reading
Rivers State Government has said it spent N3billion to register students in public schools for the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE), West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and National Examinations Council (NECO) exams every year. Governor Nyesom Wike, on assumption of office seven years ago, announced scholarship for students in publicContinue Reading
“Self-reliance and strength in science and technology”. That was the phrase General Secretary Xi Jinping used six times in his two-hour speech to China’s five-yearly Communist Party congress last October. It wasn’t a new policy: geopolitical rivalry has put research collaborations with the US under strain, Chinese universities have soughtContinue Reading