It’s a great pleasure to us to welcome our esteemed reader into year 2015.Today, we want to say what so often goes unsaid the rest of the year; THANK YOU.To each of our stemmed readers, we say a big thank you for the encouragement, support, criticism and patronage.We appreciate you …
President Goodluck Jonathan unveiled the N100 commemorative notes today.According to Central Bank of Nigeria’s Governor, Godwin Emefiele, ‘the new note was issued to commemorate the 100 years of the nation’s amalgamation’.Emefiele listed the design platforms on which the note was made to include security, durability, attractiveness, cultural heritage and transformation.There …
India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai were both given the Nobel Peace Prize for their struggles against the suppression of children and for young people’s rights, including the right to education.Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right …
Presidents Jonathan’s full speech on Nigeria’s 54th Independence Anniversary. The President espouses his administration’s achievements. Read the full transcript below as culled from Channels Tv.In his speech, the President recounted Nigeria’s experiences in it’s first 100 years as a sovereign nation, adding that “far reaching advances in building a strong, …
Hello guys, the much awaited CEO challenge is finally here. Its open to all University and MBA students in Nigeria. Do you have what it takes to be the CEO? There is no cost or purchase required to enter the Competition.What is the CEO Challenge about?Compete in 5 elimination rounds …
57 escaped Chibok school girls get scholarship to complete their education in the United States of America (USA).The Centre for Promotion of Ethics, Values and National Integration (CENPEVNI), has said that it has secured admission for the 57 escaped Chibok school girls from a school in the United States of …
CONFAB wants anyone who aspires to be a President must be a university graduate. ‘though it was good to be well educated, having degrees might not necessarily mean you could lead better’“We have had those who didn’t go to the university and have done well as our leaders.“And we have …
Prof. J.F. Ade-Ajayi died at the University College Hospital on Saturday after a brief illness.“The late Ajayi was an important part of the anti-colonial, and post-independence, scholarship that successfully established the fact that Africa had a history which pre-dated European encounters with the continent. Mentor of many generations of historians, …
Prior to various rumours carried around by Nigerians regarding using of salt water to cure Ebola, using of Kolanut among others, we have decided to share the Ebola alert released by the U.S. State Department.In order to help our Embassy Community better understand some of the key points about the …
Police nab a first class honours graduate and two final year students of Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA and three others over Jobs, Scholarships fraud on the internet. These suspects design multinational organisations’ websites to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.The Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU, has smashed a …