Past governors of Lagos State both military and civilian governors and the duration of their tenures in the office. In-case you are asked of how many governors have ruled Lagos State since 1967, how accurate would your answers be? Well, let us list them from 1967 down to 2016 and see how many governors both military and civilians that have had their names on the list of those [...]
The 36 States In Nigeria And Their Local Government Areas
Here is the list of all the 36 states in Nigeria and Abuja and their Local Government Areas 1. Abia State (17 Local Government Areas) Aba North, Aba South, Arochukwu, Bende, Isiala Ngwa South, Ikwuano, Isiala, Ngwa North, Isukwuato, Ukwa West, Ukwa East, Umuahia, Umuahia South. 2. Adamawa State (22 Local Government Areas) Demsa, Fufore, Ganye, Girei, Gombi, Jada, [...]
List Of Nigerian Senators And Their Senatorial Districts
Nigerian senators names and their senatorial districts. It is of interest to know that the Presidential/Gubernatorial elections were not the only elections that took place in Nigeria as far as the elections and the electoral positions were concerned. Worthy of note is also the Nigerian Senators elections which took place along with the other elections in Nigeria. The [...]
List of All Nigerian Ministers And Their Portfolio 2015
After so much expectation as to those who would be listed as the Nigerian ministers in the present dispensation of President Muhammadu Buhari administration, the long awaited list finally emerged with their portfolios on the 11th November 2015. The inauguration which took place at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa Abuja had the president himself as the Minister [...]
Top 5 Reasons The Biafra Movement Seems Justified
Where exactly is called Biafra? The Eastern Region, a former federal division of Nigeria with capital Enugu, became a secessionist state called Republic of Biafra after gaining independence from Nigeria in 1967. It was re-annexed in 1970 following the Nigerian-Biafran war that claimed one million lives. But the struggle seems to be far from over. Over the past weeks, there [...]
UI Students Protest The Death Of Their Colleague
Students of the University of Ibadan on Thursday locked the institution’s gate and closed down a major road while protesting the death of a 200 Level student of Human Kinetics and Health Education, Mayowa Alaran. Alaran, who was alleged to be an asthma sufferer, was said to have collapsed while watching the European Champions League match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich at [...]
WAEC Cancels 2014 Results Of Candidates
The National Examinations (NEC) Committee of WAEC on Thursday said that it had cancelled results of candidates involved in examination malpractices at the 2014 examinations. Mr Damianus Ojijeogu of the Public Affairs Department in WAEC disclosed this in a statement in Lagos. He said that the decision was taken at the 59th meeting of the committee. Ojijeogu said that the [...]
WHO to fund research in Ebonyi State University
The World Health Organisation, WHO, is funding a research on International Initiative on Health Policy Implementation Platform in Ebonyi State University. The initiative is a global effort by the world body to institutionalize health policy and health systems training worldwide. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Francis Idike made this known in Abakaliki. He [...]
Swedish Nobel laureate Tranströmer dies aged, 83
Swedish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Tomas Tranströmer has passed away at the age of 83, his publishers confirmed on Friday. Swedish publishing house Albert Bonniers Förlag confirmed his death on Friday afternoon in a press release. "We have today, by the Tranströmer family, been given the sad task of announcing that Tomas Tranströmer passed away on [...]
Fayose Offers EKSU Best Graduating Student Employment
Ekiti State Government has announced the offer of appointment as a Graduate Assistant Lecturer to Mr. Tawose Olamide Tunde, the best graduating student of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti. Dr. Ayodele Fayose made the announcement at the 20th Convocation Ceremony of the state university held at the institution’s Main Auditorium at the weekend. The Governor who was [...]
Delta state govt gives first class graduates N5m grant
One Hundred first class degree holders of Delta State origin have been presented a scholarship of N5m each for further studies by the Delta State Government. At the ceremony in Asaba, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan said the gesture was a demonstration of his commitment to human capital development, and the education sector. Governor Uduaghan urged the beneficiaries to be good [...]
Lagos State University Declares Election Recess
In view of the forthcoming National and State Elections scheduled for March 28 and April 11 respectively, the University management of Lagos State Universityn has declared a recess for both staff and student with effect from Monday March 23, 2015. Students and staff are therefore advised to vacate the campus immediately. The date of resumption will be announced later. Signed [...]
Taraba Govt. to construct 32 Almajiri schools
The Taraba Government said it had concluded plans to construct 32 Almajiri Schools in the state. Alhaji Hussain Kabri, Director, Nomadic Education, State Universal Basic Education Board, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jalingo. Kabri said this would complement the two existing Almajiri schools established by the Federal Government [...]
JAMB releases result of 895,000 candidates
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has released the result of eight hundred and ninety five thousand candidates on the ongoing computer based test. The JAMB Registrar, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, made this known while conducting the Minister of State for Education, Professor Viola Onwuliri, round some examination centres in Abuja. Prof. Ojerinde said JAMB had [...]
FG presents provisional licences to 9 new private universities
The Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has presented provisional licenses to the nine newly approved private universities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls the Federal Executive Council on Feb. 25, approved the establishment of nine new private universities, bringing their number to 59. Shekarau said that the establishment of more private universities [...]
Jonathan promise to open First Cooperative University in Nigeria
President Goodluck Jonathan announced yesterday that he would send a federal government delegation to Nairobi, Kenya to understudy its University of Cooperatives with a view to establishing the first of its kind in Nigeria. Jonathan gave the hint when he played host to members of the Odua Cooperative Alliance (OCA) from the six southwestern states in the State House, Marina, [...]
FG to introduce free feeding in Almajiri schools
Free Feeding Programme for the Almajiri schools is to be introduced by the Federal Government. This is aimed at reducing hunger and malnutrition among pupils. The Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Suleiman, made this known in Abuja at the presentation of the progress report on Almajiri Integrated Schools. Dr Suleiman said the programme would be remodeled to include [...]
2014 NECO GCE Result Statistics, Over 30% Passed
The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the 2014 November /December External Senior School Certificate Examination results. The Registrar of NECO, Prof. Promise Okpala, who announced this in Minna, said that out of 61,386 who sat for the examination18,500 candidates passed with five credits and above including English language and Mathematics which represents 30.5 [...]
NUC abolishes Pass Degree
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has abolished the award of Pass Degree in Nigerian Universities with effect from the 2013/ 2014 academic session. Prof Abdullahi Zuru, the Vice Chancellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, disclosed this on Wednesday at the 2014/2015 matriculation of 4,133 students of the institution. “This has far reaching implications on the [...]
90-year-old grandmother in primary school
Meet madam Priscilla Sitienei aka Gogo, a 90-year-old grand mother learning how to read and write for the very first time in her life. She is in class 4 at a primary school in Ndalat village, Kenya. The very lively grandma has worked as a midwife since age 65 at Great Valley in additions to her services as a volunteer since 2009. It look and appear funny though but that is [...]
The True Story about Nigeria vs India Match in 1989
Virtually everyone born before the invention of the internet must have heard the tale of a nonexistent football match between Nigeria and India that obviously took place in a parallel universe and somehow we got to hear the gory stories of that match. Though there are many variations of the story, every prevaricator seems to agree on a couple of facts about this fictional [...]
You need to know: What is harmattan Dust haze
Harmattan may have originated from the Arabic word ‘HARAM’, which literally means; the evil thing (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language; Fourth Edition). The Harmattan is a dry and dusty wind blowing northeast and west of the Sahara into the Gulf of Guinea between November and March (winter) each year. It is considered a Natural Hazard. On its passage over the [...]
Excess school fees: LASU set to make refund
The Nigeria’s Lagos State University (LASU) in Ojo, has taken some bold and commendable steps to ease up the students sufferings. The institution is planning on how it is going to refund students who were overcharged while paying their school fees. This follows the directives given by the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, some months back. It says that processes to [...]
Agodi parks in Oyo state known in the past as evil forest’ now a paradise!
Agodi parks of Nigeria, in Oyo state, known in the past as 'evil forest' is now a paradise. The garden, which is run by the Oyo State Government and serves as a tourist centre to both old and young, male and female and fun seekers alike, is a lovely park right at the centre of Ibadan city. The park, which spreads over 13 acres of land, is a good example of multiple land use [...]
Here are the Atheists 10 commandments
In a recent competition the "10 'Non-Commandments' Contest," atheists were asked to offer modern alternatives to the famous ten commandments of Moses. Participants entered from around the world, and at the end, judges made their selections based on chosen criteria. Here are the winning "Ten Non-Commandments" chosen by the judges as the winners: 1. Be open-minded and be willing [...]
Seven girls got pregnant on school trip
Seven girls from a small town of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina, got pregnant after a five-day school trip to the country capital city. The school had taken 28 girls to the Nation's capital city for a five-day school trip to visit museums and historics sights, there the seven girls got pregnant. How is it that seven of the schoolgirls got pregnant at the time of the [...]
Take time to water your own grass it would be just as green
Quote of the day "You may think the grass is greener on the other side, but if you take time to water your own grass it would be just as green" [...]
Lagos State workers to get 15% bonus with December salary
The Lagos state government has promised to pay its workers 15 percent bonus in the December salary as an end of the year bonus. The Head of Service, Mrs Oliseyi Williams disclosed this on Friday. Speaking at the end of the year get together, she expressed appreciation for the principal and directors in the ministry of Education. She said that the bonus would be paid along [...]
What Obasanjo said about President Jonathan in his book ‘My Watch’
The heat has been on since last week when the former President Olusegun Obasanjo released his new book 'My Watch'. Despite effort to stop the book through court order by those loyal to President Jonathan, Obasanjo still went ahead and launch the book. Now we can see clearly the reason Jonathan wanted the book killed by all mean. Read some of the critical things Obasanjo said [...]
Goodluck Jonathan’s acceptance speech 2014
Mr Chairman, our dear delegates, today is another great day in the history of our great Party; The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and indeed in the history of our great Nation. 2. Nothing gives me greater joy, as leader of our party, than such an opportunity as presented today, for direct interaction with so many enthusiastic and dedicated fellow party members, and may I add, [...]
Excerpt from Obasanjo’s book ‘My Watch’
"By the Constitution, I had to inaugurate or prorogue the National Assembly on June 4, 1999. The most important officer in the National Assembly is the senate president and that office had been zoned to the South-east. And here was where Atiku Abubakar, my vice-president,first showed his hand and his character. “Without seeking my view or approval, he started planning the [...]
Meet the man who speaks 9 languages fluently just like natives
His name is Matthew Youlden! Just imagine how difficult it is to learn a language to some? Yet, this man speaks nine languages fluently and understands more than a dozen other languages, if you add everything together, he speaks more than twelve languages. This story about Mathew Youlden was first published on Babbel.com Babbel -- He’s what is known as a polyglot, a member of [...]
Authorities of Yabatech warns students against Cultism
Authorities of the Yaba College of Technology, (Yabatech) in Lagos, on Wednesday, warned students against participating in cultism, gangsterism and other vices that could endanger their careers on campus. The Director of the Public Relations Unite of the college, Mr. Charles Oni, gave the warning in an interview in Lagos. Oni said the college would no longer tolerate acts of [...]
Students Protest Over Strike in Edo
The indefinite strike of four government owned tertiary institutions in Edo State has provoked the students as they took to the streets to the extents that Vehicular movement on the Benin-Ore Road was paralysed for some hours. The students, who carried placards with various inscriptions, barricaded the two dual carriage roads with used tyres, benches and plastic chairs, [...]
UNILAG lecturers protest poor conditions of service
UNILAG lecturers protested yesterday to what they call "poor of conditions of service by the school management. The members of the Academic staff union of university(ASUU) university of Lagos chapter lecturers started the protest around 8:30am in the morning yesterday moving from faculty to faculty displaying placard bearing their grievance and were singing solidarity songs in [...]
118 students make first class as UNIBEN graduates 19,472!
The management of University of Benin on Tuesday said that no fewer than 118 graduands of the university would be awarded with first class degrees at its 39th and 40th convocation and Founder’s Day ceremonies. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Godwin Oshodin, who disclosed this to journalists in Benin, said that out of a total of 19,472 graduands from the [...]
TrickyQuestions #3: What is the name of the city seen in this picture?
The answer is: Cape Town, South Africa! If you look closely on the picture, you will see ABSA corporate head office in central Cape Town, South Africa. That is the finest clue for you guys. Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it [...]
TrickyQuestions #2: Tell us the name of the Beach in this picture and the city it is located?
Yesterday's question seems to be very easy because quite a good number of people got the answer correctly. Someone even quoted the source where he got the answer, meaning the answer is readily available on the internet. Well, the prize it for the first person to get the answer correctly only and within the ten minutes of posting the question, four persons got the answer. Now, [...]