National Examination Council (NECO), Thursday, said it would do everything possible to tackle examination malpractices across the country. Prof. Monday Joshua, Registrar of NECO who made this promise during a courtesy visit to Government House, Minna, Niger State, said the council had cautioned its members of staff against examination malpractices. …

United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, Thursday, called on the international community to support Nigeria’s Safe Schools Initiative. Brown told UN correspondents in New York that Nigeria was facing a moment of truth, when Boko Haram is trying to engineer a civil war and seeking to …

Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, Thursday, inaugurated a multi-billion naira governor’s office for his successor, Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi at Government House, Enugu. Commissioning the edifice, Chime stated that it was constructed to ease the work and operations of the incoming administration, just as he said the building would also …

NZE NWABUEZE AKABOGU (JP) The recent Parliamentary election in the United Kingdom of Great Britain had produced rather a dramatic victory for the ruling conservative party led by the Prime Minister, David Cameron. After about five weeks of intense campaigns by all the political parties, opinion polls and book makers …

Some Lagos residents on Thursday urged the State Governor-elect, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, to complete the Ayobo/Ipaja Road project in Alimosho very early in his tenure. The residents and some motorists in the area who spoke in separate interviews in Lagos, said the stoppage of work on the project and some …

Tayo Ogunbiyi “You see, this job is a tough job. When I took this job, at the age of 44, I was counting the number of white hairs on my head. Today, at 52, I am counting the number of black hairs on my head”- Fashola In a few days’ …

We work diligently to keep our complexions youthful—we spend a fortune on anti-wrinkle creams, slather on SPF every day, and wear hats to shield our faces from the sun. But it’s easy to forget about those other body parts that are just as quick to show signs of aging: our …

Adeze Cheryl Ibezim and her aunt Maureen recently graduated from the Kean University, Union Campus, New Jersey, United States. While Adeze Cheryl Ibezim graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, her aunt Maureen graduated with a Masters in Public Administration.

President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, May 21st received the President of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou who paid him a solidarity and congratulatory visit. In a statement by Mallam Garba Shehu, Director of Media and Publicity of the Media Team of the President-elect, the Niger leader said he brought the felicitations …

    Indications are that the people of Kaduna State are in support of the series of steps taken by the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the attempt made by the outgoing PDP-led administration in the state to expend about 2.7 billion naira SURE-P fund barely few days to the …

    Police in Edo State have confirmed that 41 suspected cultists, including 30 Auchi Polytechnic students, have been arrested for alleged killing destroying property in the wake of the cult clashes and other crimes that swept through the state recently. According to Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, …

  Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bala has proposed to spend N3.1 billion on construction of another banquet hall within the Presidential Villa, Rehabilitation of ECOWAS parliament building and Rehabilitation of United Nations building. This was contained in the FCT budget proposal which scaled through second reading in Senate …

NEDU MARK, Yenagoa Bayelsa State Police Command, Thursday, said it has repositioned to tackle the high incidence of crime and other crime-related challenges and also respond effectively to the task of making the state crime-free. Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa state, Mr. Paul Okafor stated this in Yenagoa during a keynote …

Susan Olije Very soon, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), will pass out a crop of new corps members. The big question, however, is: What lies ahead for them in terms of employment? The unemployment situation in the country is becoming quite alarming. Apart from the dwindling oil revenue, other …

  Ahead of the May 29 Presidential Inauguration, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase, has ordered Zonal Assistant Inspectors-General of Police and Command Commissioners of Police to beef up security around key points and public infrastructures in the country. The police chief also directed that critical infrastructures like mega …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has raised alarm over suspected plans by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), to use the membership register of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to conduct the Local Government Council election this Saturday, May 23. Berating the RSIEC for compromising its …

  Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has said that some predictions, especially in some international media organizations suggesting that the outcome of the recently concluded 2015 general elections may lead to the end of the country, have proven to be false due to the …

  The case involving former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), before Justice A. Y Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja , has been adjourned till May 27, 2015. Sylva along with Francis Okokwo, Gbenga Balogun, and Samuel Ogbuku, …

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals Plc, Pharmacist Emmanuel Ekunno, has said that hypertension is assuming an epidemic status in the country and must be combated by all so as to significantly reduce the sudden deaths, strokes, kidney damage and other health challenges that result from it. Pharmacist …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Wednesday, May 20, arraigned one Chidi Alozie before Justice U.N Agomoh of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt on a 4-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence. The accused was alleged to have collected the sum of N132, 000 …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) will hold a two-day retreat for all its Senators-elect in Abuja on May 22-23, 2015. In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the retreat will be held at the Ibeto Hotel in Apo …

  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended the BGL Asset Management Ltd, BGL Capital Ltd and BGL Securities Ltd from all capital market activities. In a statement in Lagos, Wednesday, the Commission directed that Mr Albert Okumagba, Group Managing Director, BGL Group, should cease to be a registered …

Out-of-favour Tottenham Hotspur striker and Togo international Emmanuel Adebayor has revealed in his latest criticism of his family that he has, at times, considered suicide. The Togolese striker has previously accused his brothers of stealing from him as he recounts tales of his troubled early life on social media and …

Veteran actor, Femi Robinson, who pioneered the village headmaster role in the defunct Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) series Village Headmaster, has passed away at age 75. News of the passing on of the actor was announced Wednesday by his two sons, Seun and Wole Robinson, via the actor’s Facebook page. …