Gov Bello spends hours clearing gridlock on Lokoja-Abuja road Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello on Sunday evening, joined officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and other security agencies in controlling the traffic on Abuja-Lokoja road which has held commuters on standstill for two days running. Governor Bello who arrived Jamata area of the…

  DO NOT EXPECT A REVOLUTION IN NIGERIA! Yes, I just concluded thus. For a long time, I cannot remember sitting down to watch a video for over 2 hours. I did so yesterday as I watched the public session of the investigative probe of the national assembly into the smelly rot in NDDC. I…

  The Federal Government has extended the N-POWER Batch C online application by two weeks. This was contained in a statement that was issued by Deputy Director Information Rhoda Ishaku Iliya in the ministry. The statement indicated that the online application process, which began on Friday, June 26, 2020, was billed to have ended Sunday,…

A STATEMENT OF PUBLIC ADDRESS BY NAUS PRESIDENT, COMRADE FELIX S. IJEGALU, ON THE STATE OF NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY EDU CATION, AT NAUS NATIONAL SECRETARIAT, ANAMBRA STATE, JULY 25, 2020. Fellow Nigerian University Students, It has become imperative to communicate to the general public and Nigerian University Students on the lingering effect embattled with our educational…

Pioneer Vice-Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and immediate past Secretary-General, Association of African Universities, Prof. Olugbemiro Jegede, in this interview with IYABO LAWAL on the recently released world university ranking, spoke on why Nigerian universities are poorly rated and the need to restructure the tertiary education system to align it with current trends….

How on earth was NIJ House rechristened so quickly? July 26, 2020 THE NATION By Idowu Akinlotan Predictably, the death of Ismaila Isa Funtua, the 78-year-old eminent and distinguished newspaper publisher and self-confessed member of the cabal believed to wield tremendous influence over the Muhammadu Buhari presidency, has attracted saccharine obituaries from nearly every part…

Weep Not for the Niger Delta July 26, 2020 THISDAY SimonKolawolelive By Simon-Kolawole, Email: simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com, sms: 0805 500 1961 Why is Nigeria like this? Don’t look too far: the answers are well articulated in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) saga. I would say NDDC is a microcosm of Nigeria. If you understand the genesis…

Hon. Onyekehi Bags Ambassadorial Award of Ethics, Excellence Hon. Abdulkareem Onyekehi Suleiman, the Special Adviser to Kogi State Governor on Multilateral, Donor Agencies and Special Projects and State Focal Person, National Social Investment Programme, has been honored with an Ambassador of Ethics and Global Citizen of Conscience award, by an NGO, the Centre for Ethics…

Tinuade Babalola Adejuiyegbe Becomes First Seating Tradition Ruler To Attend NYSC Camp Female monarch Oluboropa of Iboropa becomes first seating tradition ruler to attend NYSC camp – A Nigerian female monarch has made history in the country and she excitedly shared the news on social media – The Oluboropa of Iboropa, Regent Tinuade Babalola revealed…

Live it, Cliché it, Truth Remains Truth By Oshaloto Joseph Tade The question “What would you be remembered for” has been asked very so often that it has become somewhat of a cliché. Fortunately, according to Mr Femi Adesina, “facts are a stubborn thing.” So, whether a piece of truth becomes a culture or a…