By Blessing Effiong The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), who along with Africa’s richest man and business mogul of international repute, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Malam Mele Kyari, Peter Okocha, immediate past governor and VisitorContinue Reading
The Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA virtually stood still on Wednesday, March 24th 2022 when the pioneer Professor of Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa and Emeritus Professor, Ekundayo Adeyemi, who died on January 25, 2022 was honoured during a commendation service held as part of activities marking his final riteContinue Reading
An 18-year-old teenager in America, Makenzie Thompson, has made the news for getting admission offers from 49 schools. CNN reports that the teenager never set out to apply to many schools until she attended college fairs and got fee waivers. Rewards for hard work Speaking with the media, Makenzie saidContinue Reading
A 17-year-old Nigerian teenager, Victory Yinka-Banjo, who had nine A’s in WAEC in 2020 is in the news again for even greater things. CNN reports that Victory was offered full scholarships by Ivy League schools; Yale College, Princeton University, Harvard, and Brown College in both the US and Canada toContinue Reading
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye I have always had this lingering suspicion that apart from representing the deep-seated contempt that has come to define government’s attitude to the welfare of public sector workers, its shoddy, often, disdainful, treatment of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and its demands for improved workingContinue Reading
Prof. Paulinus Okwelle, the Executive Secretary, National Commission of Colleges of Education, NCCE, says the country’s Colleges of Education, COE, will soon go into extinction if its conversion to universities is not stopped. Mr Okwelle made this known in Abuja recently at a National Summit on the Future of NigeriaContinue Reading
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, discharged and acquitted Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director, GMD, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, of money laundering charge. Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a judgement, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.Continue Reading
The current Minister of Education Mallam Adamu Adamu wrote this brilliant piece which was published in his Friday column, 15 November 2013. As the current faceoff between ASUU and the FG lingers on and considering the fact that mallam is now directly in charge of the situation, we have reproducedContinue Reading
An Independent Research carried out by the Bayero University BUK, has revealed that high profile corrupt practices are mostly condoned at churches and mosques across the federation. The research, conducted by the Mumbayya House Anti Corruption Project of BUK in collaboration with the Macarthur Foundation, found that 70 percent ofContinue Reading