Boko Haram, release our sisters now

NO fewer than 160 Niger-Delta youths on Monday launched a slogan: #Boko Haram Release Our Sisters Now, urging the dreaded Boko Haram insurgent group to without further delay, release their sisters.

Just as the Special Adviser to the President on Niger-Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Hon. Kingsley Kuku charged the insurgents to release  them to continue their education.

The girls who carried banners with inscription: "Boko Haram Release Our Sisters Now" made this call during the orientation event for Niger-Delta youths who are leaving the country for university education in the US and UK.

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Public schools shine in Lagos schools’ debate

Picturing holes in the speculation that private schools are better than public schools, Epe Senior Grammer School, Epe, has won the 5th edition of the Lagos State Ministry of Education Schools' Debate held on Thursday 15th May at Lagos Television Complex.

The challenge had over 300 private and public schools compete in preliminary stages and were cut down to 62 schools which qualified and competed through the elimination stages leaving six finalists from three schools for the grand finale.

No Anambra child must be seen hawking during school hours — Prof Omenugha

Professor Kate Azuka Omenugha is Nigeria's second female Professor of Mass Communication. She was appointed Anambra State Commissioner for Education on April 10, 2014 by Governor Willie Obiano, having been head, Department of Mass Communication, Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka and the immediate-past Director, UNIZIK Fm.

In this maiden interview after her appointment, Omenugha, who is a motivational speaker and Nigeria's first Professor of Gender and Communication, bares her mind on the 10-year Rolling Plan of the current administration and how Anambra will sustain its status as the best state in national examinations conducted by bodies like the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO).
BY IKENNA ASOMBA

Delegates must make councils stronger — Okafor, ALGON President

AS the National Conference continues plenary on the recommendations of its 20 committees today, President of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON), Ozo Nwabueze Okafor, has urged the delegates to shun moves that would further emasculate the local councils.

One of the confab committees recommended that the scrapping of the councils as a tier of government and yet another recommended devolving of power from the Federal Government to the states and councils and better funding.

Derivation: N-Delta people dissatisfied with 13 % —Annkio Briggs

Want 100 % resource ownership to pay 50% tax to FG

NIGER-DELTA environmental activist and Federal Government Delegate, Ms Annkio Briggs, has said that the recommendation of her Committee on Devolution of Power that status quo be maintained on the current 13 per cent derivation is unacceptable to the people of the oil-rich region.

Consequently, she disclosed that the people have now taken a position saying that it is 100 percent resource ownership to pay tax of not less than 50 percent to the Federal Government or nothing.

Ambode: The quintessential public servant

By Ayo Oyoze Baje

ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed

Tinubu, former governor of the Centre of Excellence describes him as " an uncommon civil servant" in whom he discovered an embodiment of the sterling attributes of a  great accountant. The acclaimed political strategist with a knack for discovering great talents surely knows his onions.

Braithwaite expresses frustration over court’s adjournment of case

By Abdulwahab Abdulah

Lawyer and rights activist, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite has expressed disgust over adjournment of trial by an Ikeja High Court in a N10 billion   suit, he filed   against   Standard Chartered Bank over a building erected by the bank.
Braithwaite had dragged the bank to court accusing it of erecting a building in a residential area on Victoria Island, Lagos which he said constituted problems for residents in the area.
In the suit, Dr. Braithwaite is seeking an order declaring as illegal, the erecting of a 15-storey commercial building by the bank in an otherwise residential area.

MEND lied over P-Harcourt Refinery explosion —IYC

 BY Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa—The Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, yesterday, dismissed the claim by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, that its armed militias were responsible for the explosion that rocked the Port Harcourt Refinery in River State.

We’ve met your demands, LASU tells ASUU

BY Ebun Sessou & Ikenna Asomba

LAGOS—THE authorities of Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, yesterday, said they had fulfilled the core demands of the institution's striking members of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and had gone ahead to approve new academic calendar for the 2013/2014.

Jos blasts callous, totally unacceptable — Ekweremadu

BY JOSEPH ERUNKE

ABUJA—DEPUTY Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has condemned Tuesday's twin bomb blasts in Jos, Plateau State, saying it was not only callous but completely unacceptable.

He said for the current war against insurgence in the country to be won, security agencies must reward operatives through prompt promotion and adequate welfare.

Senator Ekweremadu spoke  yesterday in Abuja, while decorating his police orderly, Edward Utuh, with the rank of inspector.

Boko Haram kills over 30 in attacks near Nigeria kidnapping site

Seemingly operating with impunity, Boko Haram extremists have killed more than 30 people in brazen attacks on two more villages near Chibok school, the place where they kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month.

The latest attacks were disclosed as two massive car bombs killed at least 118 people in the city of Jos, with Boko Haram seen as the likeliest perpetrators.

Jos blasts

Jos blasts: PDP postpones presidential flag-off of Ekiti governorship campaign on May 21, 2014 / in News 12:31 pm / Comments The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed, by one week, the presidential flag-off of Ekiti State governorship campaign slated for Thursday.