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Is Coach Shuaibu Amodu going to be sacked for qualifying Nigeria for the World Cup despite all odds? More so this is the second time he has done that in the history of Nigeria's qualification for the world cup.
The Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State has resumed for the 2009/2010 academic session and has commenced academic activities for both fresh and returning students of the institution.
Why did it take the Alumni Association so long time to have an Abuja Chapter?
Oil giant, Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) Unlimited has donated to the University of Uyo (UNIUYO), Akwa Ibom State, various engineering equipment worth N17 million, to promote effective teaching and learning.
Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Osonye Tess Onwueme has won several international awards, including a Ford Foundation research award.
The use of multiple-choice questions in Post Universities Matriculation Examination (Post-UME) screening by universities in the country contravenes the original concept. Former Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola has said.
A Canadian Education Consultant and international admission specialist, Ms. Karen Perez has attributed attempts by parents to seek better education opportunities for their children where available, to the insecurity in the country's education system.
Ghanaian President, Prof. John Evans Attah-Mills has pledged his government's full support to the Association of African Universities (AAU). He made the pledge while receiving the Board members of the association, led by the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Is-haq O. Oloyede, who visited the President on the African University Day, November 12.
Teachers and pupils of Baptist Day Primary School , Agbesi Ewekoro, Ogun State had cause to celebrate, as Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc. recently renovated and provided electricity for the entire school complex comprising five blocks of 14 classrooms, laboratory, head teachers office and the toilet.
The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) has warned that it would not recognise any graduate of Engineering from universities or institutions approved only by the National Universities Commission (NUC) without a corresponding approval by the council.
A Lagos-based firm, Mclilyville Consulting Limited has, in collaboration with the state Ministry of Education, organised a free Mathematics clinic for Senior Secondary One (SS1) students drawn from senior secondary schools in the state's Education District Five.
Hauwa Adamu's favourite subjects are Chemistry and Biology. Notwithstanding that oil is the backbone of Nigeria's economy, the SS2 student of Government Secondary School, Jiwa, Abuja, said she knew nothing about how the country became one of its major producers in the world.
Lagos State government has commenced a comprehensive computer literacy programme involving teachers and counselors in all primary and secondary schools as part of its effort aimed at improving learning and teaching techniques.
All is set for this year's Lagos State Asoju Oba Table Tennis Championship sponsored by Chief Molade Okoya Thomas. The event will hold between Monday November 30 and Friday 4th December, 2009 at the Mobolaji Johnson Sports Centre, Rowe Park, Yaba Lagos.
Former World and Olympic champion in the women's 5000m and IAAF Athlete of the year in 2007,Ethiopia's Meseret Defar and president of World Mountain Running Association (WMRA), Bruno Gozzelino arrived Nigeria Tuesday evening for this weekend's fifth Obudu international mountain race and the first African mountain running championships.
The Sports Minister and Chairman National Sports Commission Sani Ndanusa said yesterday that he is ready to answer to his actions and decisions in the just concluded FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009.
Claims by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) that globacom Limited, the official sponsor of the national teams of Nigeria, has defaulted in the payment of the sponsorship fee for 2009, have been rejected by the telephony company.
The Lagos State Principal's Cup football competition will come on stream this year with enhanced incentives for the victorious school that will go home with the cash prize of N1 million. The tournament is to be sponsored by Guaranty Trust Bank. In the past, the tournament was the major platform in the sporting calendar of the state that illustrious ex-Nigerian international players like Adokiye ...
Albert Einstein said several years ago that the hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Ronald Reagan, one time President of the United States of America also underscored the importance of tax when he asserted succinctly "We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each ...
"The seat at the Government House, Awka, Anambra State is not hereditary and no winner is returned to it without an election duly conducted within the time frame as stipulated by the law it will be judicial slumber to grant an application of this nature.
The disagreement over the modus operandi for amending the 1999 Constitution was the first incident that exposed the underbelly of the Federal Legislature. The current face-off over the venue of the joint session to receive the 2010 budget proposal by President Umaru Yar'Adua is a further manifestation of the conflict between the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Death, from all intents and purposes, is meant to be final for the human soul. But for late Tasiu Umar Mashi, aka Tasi Elder, the controversial Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Mashi Local Government area of Katsina state, the controversy generated by his death in the office of Katsina State Commissioner of Police Danazumi Doma recently, is proving the above assumption wrong. As far as ...
About one and half years to the next general election, fear and apprehension have continued to grip both stakeholders and political enthusiasts on the possible output of the election.
At a recent dinner in Abuja the host, a senator, introduced me to the Speaker from one of the State Assemblies. He said: This is the Right Honourable , Speaker of the House of Assembly of We shook hands.
The previous warning by Chief Albert Horsefall that militants even after reformations still exhibit high level of restiveness that makes them susceptible to violent reaction, most times, without justification may have been taken with a pinch of the salt.
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