I was on my way back from Botswana, after attending a conference organized by the Africa Leadership Forum (ALF). This was sometime in the 90s, on that same trip was Professor Tekena Tamuno, the eminent historian of blessed memory. We boarded an Air Afrique flight from Johannesburg to Abidjan, where we were scheduled to join another flight to Lagos. But Air Afrique at the time had started having problems. It ...

An ad-hoc Committee on Education set up by the Nasarawa State House of Assembly to investigate the 2015/2016 academic session admission scam rocking the state university has accused the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Mainoma Mohammed Akaro of allocating 2,483 admission slot to himself. Chairman of House Committee on Education, Daniel Oga Ogazy who disclosed this on the floor of the House also said the vice chancell ...

Founder and Senior Pastor of Believers Love World a.k.a Christ Embassy, Rev Chris Oyakhilome, shocked many today in Benin when he announced a donation of N1 Billion to Benson Idahosa University as part of his support to the institution which he described as one of the legacies of his mentor and role-model, the late Archbishop Benson Idahosa. He made the donation shortly after he was conferred with an honour ...

I predicted that the future is corrupt for first time on 27 May, 1996 at the launch of the Exam Ethics Marshals Movement. I have said it in many other occasions and feel compelled to say so again. The future will continue to be corrupt  unless and until the criminal commercialization of admission, training, examination, certification, registration and regulation processes of education is stopped; unless the ...

Youths as agents of change in road traffic safety in Nigeria has been a campaign for ages. It is an accepted phenomenon that the Youths of today are Nation Builders and future leaders of tomorrow. Road crashes have affected the lives of many youths and it has left many on the wheel chairs, many have lost their life as a result of excessive speeding and lack of road safety education. There have been numerous ...

Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike has been accused of sacking 344 lecturers among others in the state owned Polytechnic and others. The allegation was made in a statement today by the state chapter of APC which also accused the governor of planning to sack non-indigenes among the state's 13,200 school teachers. "The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC is sad to note that Governor Nyesom ...

Barely 24 hours after the Nigeria Army authorities portrayed APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari as a retired General without a certificate, the Principal of the Government College, Katsina, from where the former Head of state passed out in 1961 has released his secondary school statement of result putting to rest the issue the ruling PDP has relied so much on to get Buhari disqualified fro ...

The Nigerian Army on today joined the political fray and the controversy surrounding the educational certificate of the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, with a declaration by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. General Olajide Olaleye, at a press conference in Abuja, that neither the original copy, Certified True Copy (CTC) nor statement of result ...

   Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola today succumbed to pressure as his government changed its hard stance to slash the school fees paid in the State’s University (LASU) with an approval of up to 34 to 60 percent downward review of the fees across faculties and courses in the institution. The Government, in a 17-paragraph resolution on the State Executive Council’s consideration of its Ad Hoc Com ...

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress says it sincerely apologise to all Nigerians especially students and lecturers in the country’s tertiary institutions for presenting Chief Nyesome Wike to President Goodluck Jonathan for appointment as a Minister. The party in a statement by Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, Senior Special Aide on Media and Publicity to Rivers State APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ikany ...