By Law Mefor For more than a decade, Professor Udenta O. Udenta and I have walked closely together. This September, he will turn 60 and enter the sixth floor of life. So, I thought it was appropriate to look back on his extraordinary life and great intellectual outputs and contributions as a creative mind and…
The Kano State Executive Council has approved the release of N700m for the payment of school fees for 7,000 indigenes of the state studying at Bayero University Kano (BUK) and N854 million for the Auren Zaurawa Mass Wedding Initiative. Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf disclosed this on Thursday via his verified X page, formerly known as…
The National Coordinator of Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC), Chief Nnam made the commendation in a press release in Abuja, thanking the Governor of Kano State, His Excellency, Mallam Abba Kabir Yusuf, for prohibiting private schools from hiking their school fees to avoid adding pains to the parents of the wards. The Kano…
August 21, 2023 The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, says it has jurisdiction in the case instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to compel Chicago State University (CSU) to produce critical documents relating to Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu who is currently the President…
A saying popularised by Nigerian singer Damini Ogulu also known as Burna Boy, “No evidence, you go explain tire”, has appeared in an examination question from the University of Uyo in Akwa Ibom State. The saying appeared in question five of the exam written by 400-level students of the Department of History and International Studies….
Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), M.S. in Educ. 1943, M.A. 1944, was born in Africa’s Gold Coast (now Ghana). As a young man, he was a school teacher before leaving his homeland to further his education in American universities. He later traveled to England where he worked for the decolonization of Africa and in the Pan-African movement…
The National Coordinator of ILDC Chief Ugochukwu Nnam commended Governor Abba Yusuf for paying 55,000 Students’ SSCE Registration Fees in Kano State. The National Coordinator of Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC), Chief Nnam made the commendation in a press release in Abuja, thanking the Governor of Kano State, His Excellency, Mallam Abba Kabir…
The Anambra State government has faulted the position of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in the way it has handled the development concerning the University and Tertiary Matriculation Examination result presented by Mmesoma Ejikeme. In a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu, on Wednesday, said investigation was still ongoing…
The Head of Corporate Communications, Innoson Group, Cornel Osigwe, has called for an investigation into the allegations of certificate forgery against Mmesoma Ejikeme who JAMB Claim that she paraded herself as the top scorer of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Osigwe in a post via his official Twitter handle, @cornelosigwe said, “The girl I…
THE NIGERIAN IDEAL My Fellow Citizens, I stand before you honoured to assume the sacred mandate you have given me. My love for this nation is abiding. My confidence in its people, unwavering. And my faith in God Almighty, absolute. I know that His hand shall provide the needed moral strength and clarity of purpose…
