Arts and Culture DG, Runsewe jailed

An Abuja High Court has sentenced the Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Olusegun Runsewe, to prison. Justice Jude Okeke made the order on Thursday while ruling on a motion drawn from a suit filed by Ummakalif Limited against Minister of the FCT, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), DG of NCAC, […]

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Trump’s gamble and blind march to war

America’s ruinous more-than-a-decade war and invasion of Iraq led to civilian deaths of upwards of half a million people (about the size of the entire population of Washington DC), though conservative, documented figures would put the civilian death toll to anywhere between 182,000 to 206, 000. American troops died in their thousands too (including contractors), […]

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Tinubu visits Buhari, says Bakare’s call for successor hasty

Okorie, Igbo group disagree with APC national leader ‘Jonathan not under pressure to contest 2023 election’ The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Monday said it was too early to debate which zone of the country should produce the next president. He cautioned that such a debate would […]

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Emmanuel Olugbenga Olaofe: Please Lord, comfort us!

By Banji Ayoola Please Lord! May it please Thee to comfort us! For indeed we, his Classmates especially of the 1979 Set at the Baptist College, Iwo, have lost a dear friend! A true friend who touched the life positively of whoever crossed his path! As our Senior Prefect, Emmanuel Olugbenga Olaofe rallied us behind […]

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University of Reading begins new Life Science programmes September

The University of Reading, United Kingdom, will begin four new Life Science programmes which are available for the September 2020 entry. According to Study in UK Nigeria, all the new BSc programmes taking off also offer students the option of a year in industry at a professional placement. The new prohrammes are: BSc Chemistry with Cosmetic […]

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Tetfund secretary, Bogoro postpones visit to Fedpoly Ile Oluji

The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund), Prof. Suleiman Elias Bogoro, has postponed his planned working visit to the Federal Polytechnic, Ile Oluji, Ondo State, which was slated for Thursday, 9th January, 2020 indefinitely. This was announced today Monday in a statement by the institution’s Head of Information, Protocol and Passages, Mr. Sanmi Enigbokan, […]

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Fedpoly Ile Oluji set to receive Tetfund Secretary, Bogoro

The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund), Prof. Suleiman Elias Bogoro, will pay a working visit to the Federal Polytechnic, Ile-Oluji, Ondo State on Thursday, 9th January, 2020 to commission projects financed and executed by the Agency. This was contained in a statement by the institution’s Head of Information, Protocol and Passages, […]

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Atiku: Let’s rebuild PDP for challenges ahead

Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in the in the 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday urged the party’s leaders and members to focus on rebuilding the party. Noting in a tweet on his verified Twitter handle @atiku, he said there were challenges before the party and urged them not to […]

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Ondo assembly renames OSUSTECH after Agagu

By Banji Ayoola Ondo State House of Assembly has passed into law a bill renaming the Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, OSUSTECH, after its founder and a former governor of the state, Dr Olusegun Agagu. The institution has now become Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, OAUSTECH, Okitipupa, following the amendment […]

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