Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has urged the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) to improve the mechanism for school monitoring and evaluation of projects. He said this would promote quality education in the country. The governor spoke when the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Basic […]
Continue Reading
Neil Curtis, Head of Museums and Special collections, with one of the Benin bronze depicting the Oba of Benin at The Sir Duncan Rice Library, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. (University of Aberdeen via Reuters) The University of Aberdeen in Scotland is to return a Benin bronze sculpture to Nigeria, saying it was acquired […]
Continue Reading
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Friday disclosed that available information has shown that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is generally safe and efficacious against the COVID-19 disease. It however stressed that it won’t hesitate to take decisive actions should new data surface to prove that the vaccine is unsafe for Nigerians. Stressing that the […]
Continue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has explained why he has shown so much concern about happenings with the borders of Nigeria’s neighbouring countries; the Republic of Niger. According to President Buhari, Niger shares a length of more than 1,400 kilometres of border with Nigeria, which he said should make Nigeria pay serious attention to any development going […]
Continue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari receives COVID-19 e-Vaccination from his Chief Personal Physician, Dr Suhayb Rafindadi Sannusi at the State House, Abuja. Photo; Sunday Aghaeze, March 6, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday received the COVID-19 vaccine publicly. The event was preceded by e-registration of President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo and filling […]
Continue Reading
Nigeria is a country where practitioners in virtually every profession, trade, vocation, etc. has a union. We find a lot of them in all sectors of the economy. That is why we hear about unions like the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which has become notorious for embarking on strikes that keep university undergraduates […]
Continue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his conviction in the indivisibility of Nigeria. He said that the country’s unity is non-negotiable. He told Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello on Thursday during a visit to brief him of progress so far made in resolving the north/south food blockage crisis. The Governor, who called on Buhari in the […]
Continue Reading
By Banji Ayoola State police, which for years has been canvassed by many Nigerians as a most credible solution to the security challenges rocking the nation, will soon be realised, according to the Chairman of the Southwest Governors Forum and Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu. In fact, the governor said on Thursday that: “We are […]
Continue Reading
The incongruities of the Nigerian state were on the front burner for scrutiny at a recent conversation organised by Radio Now 95.3. And the central message, after the hue and cry, is no other than the calamity to which the country is headed unless urgent steps are boldly taken to infuse true federalism character in […]
Continue Reading
By Banji Ayoola The growing worrisome sectional activism, which is gradually replacing national patriotism has been blamed on Nigeria’s faulty, twisted and imbalanced federalism. But Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, who identified the problem, said that time has come to restore national consciousness He spoke on Thursday at a public lecture as part of the […]
Continue Reading
