Busty Nollywood actress, singer and dancer, Cossy Orjiakor, we love to refer to as ‘Commotion Cossy’ is in the news again. This time, it is not about flaunting her voluptuous boobs before the cameras or getting some hapless young men drooling with fantasy with a show of laps and cleavages, this time, the sexy MamaGamma [...]
The House of Representatives yesterday queried the deployment and secrecy around the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) profiles of Ministries, Departments and Agencies in the educational sector, including tertiary institutions. Federal lawmakers raised concerns over a curious trend where virtually all tertiary institutions in the country channelled their total IGRs to paying utility and maintenance bills, [...]
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) at the weekend issued a seven-day ultimatum to the authorities of the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State, to either rescind its action on the cancellation of the students’ union’s election of the institution, or risk crisis. Authorities of the college had last week cancelled the election [...]
The semi- finals of the wave-making Nigeria’s Got Talent Show, sponsored by Airtel Nigeria, has propped up 50 top contestants. The Semi-finalists emerged after scaling through a post-audition assessment which proved to be a daunting task for celebrity judges Dan Foster, Kate Henshaw-Nuttal and Yibo Koko due to the abundance of talents on display. Teenage [...]
Obafemi Martins scored a brace to help Levante ease past Odion Ighalo’s Granada on Sunday afternoon. Martins put Levante ahead in the 12th minute to hand himself a perfect birthday gift, after capitalising on an error from a Granada defender to put the hosts ahead and send fans at the Estadio Cuidad de Valencia into [...]
A suicide bomber drove a jeep full of explosives into a Catholic church during morning mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wounding more than 100 and triggering reprisal attacks that killed at least two more. There was no claim of responsibility but Islamist sect Boko Haram has bombed several churches [...]
The Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State, will commence academic activities for the 2012/2013 academic session as follow: 1.Saturday 3rd to Sunday 4th November, 2012: Students are checked into halls of residence. 2.Monday 5th November, 2012: Commencement of lectures in the various faculties and departments. 3.Note that only students who have been screened and paid [...]
The Governor of Taraba State, Dambaba Suntai and five of his aides were, yesterday, involved in an air crash after their private plane, Cessna 208 aircraft marked 5N-BMJ, crashed in Yola, Adamawa State capital. Governor Suntai, who is now in a critical condition at the German Specialist Hospital in Yola, was said to be piloting [...]
TWO students of Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, Henry Edewo, 21 and Emmanuel Isikhuime, have been arrested by the Police for kidnapping, raping and murdering a female student, one Mercy Peter, 21, also a student of the institution. They were alleged to have buried their victim in a shallow grave in a forest at Ugbor [...]
One of Nigeria’s leading economists and former Central Bank Governor, Professor Charles C. Soludo, will be the keynote speaker at the American University of Nigeria’s celebration on November 24 at the seventh Founder’s Day. Founder’s Day recognizes the achievements of the entire AUN community, and looks forward to the future. Its high point is to [...]
Miss Chidimma Ukachukwu, a 12-year-old, JSS 1 student of a secondary school in Awka, Anambra State has died after she was allegedly flogged by her teacher for failing to do her home work. A source in the school told newsmen in Awka yesterday that the girl died on Thursday last week after the incident. The [...]
Chelsea are poised to hand midfielder John Obi Mikel a bumper five-year deal. Mikel is in the final year of his current contract at Stamford Bridge but the Blues are keen to hold on to the 25-year-old and are willing to offer him new terms. Talks have been ongoing for some time and Mikel’s agent [...]
President of the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council), Mr. Sanjay Bayisi, has invited the American University of Nigeria (AUN) to host next year’s Global Cyberlympics Ethical Hacking Competition, an international Cyber security challenge. The occasion of the announcement was at the Cyber Security World Conference recently held at the Nigerian Military Headquarters in Abuja. [...]
Only weeks after the launch of AUN Agricultural Entrepreneurship School, the University launched its sustainability initiative–another social entrepreneurship project. It was on Saturday, September 22, when students, some women community leaders, and some University officials gathered at the recycling unit of the Works & Maintenance Department. The project is a recycling venture, designed to convert [...]
THREE unions at the Ogun State government-owned D. S. Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic, Itori, have commenced another industrial action to protest alleged lack of teaching aids and failure to pay salaries of the workers. The Unions — the Academic Staff of Polytechnic, ASUP; Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnic, SSANIP, and the Non-Academic Staff union of [...]
The Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna has emerged winner in the research work and development contest in the just concluded 5th Nigerian Universities Research and Development Fair (NURESDEF) held in Minna, Niger State. The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, came second. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the fair at the weekend, the chairman of [...]
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Sen. Uche Chukwumerije, has called on the Federal Government to upgrade the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, to a university and rename it after Dr Alex Ekwueme. Chukwumerije made the call on Friday in Oko while delivering a paper at the 3rd Alex Ekwueme Annual Lecture Series, to mark his 80th [...]
NIGERIA’S only hope for a continental title was dashed on Sunday when Sunshine Stars of Akure were knocked out of the CAF Champions League by Al Ahly of Egypt. Mohammed Nagy ‘Gedo”s 29th minute goal was all that separated the two sides in the return leg played behind closed doors, as the six-time champions, qualified [...]
An explosive device targeting a military patrol went off Sunday on a road in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Potiskum, setting the vehicle on fire, military and residents said. “We have signals that there was a blast in Potiskum involving one of our operational vehicles,” said Lieutenant Lazarus Eli, spokesman for the Joint Task Force (JTF) [...]
Governor Segun Mimiko was Saturday, on course for a historic re-election after first results showed him dusting his two major opponents in their respective homes in the gubernatorial election in Ondo State. Governor Mimiko, who stood as candidate of the Labour Party (LP), defeated Rotimi Akeredolu, the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, [...]
Results that emerged from Ondo State Governorship election have shown that the incumbent governor and Labour Party candidate, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has defeated his arch rival, Rotimi Akeredolu of the Action Congress of Nigeria in Akeredolu’s ward. ACN governorship candidate Rotimi Akeredolu was defeated in his GRA unit 6 Owo. He scored 139 votes, while [...]
Owners of plots where the Kaduna Petroleum College is billed for yesterday said they are not responsible for the delay in the takeoff of the college, but are only appealing to government to compensate them. The spokesperson of owners of plots that were used as the site of the petroleum college, Malam Hussaini Uthman Kankiya, [...]
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state has approved the release of N77, 536,621.20 as scholarship award to 337 qualified state indigenes in various tertiary institutions throughout the country for 2011/2012 session. According to the Secretary, Lagos State Scholarship Board, Mrs. Yetunde Jegede, who disclosed this Thursday, the concerned awardees are the 223 undergraduate students with [...]
Nigeria striking duo of Victor Anichebe and Peter Osaze Odemwingie have been listed in the squad to face Venezuela in an international friendly in November. supersport.com can report that Nigeria head coach, Stephen Keshi has included the two England-based forwards in his team for the friendly. The Super Eagles’ coach also included some new names [...]
There are reports of inadequate security in many localities in Ondo State, particularly affected are rural areas in Idanre and Okitipupa. Voters are apprehensive that the security deployed is not commensurate insecurity is not commensurate with the level of threat of insecurity in those areas. There is urgent need for deployment of additional security, particularly [...]
