January 2021

Anambra teachers comply with resumption directives

Prof. Kate Omenugha, Anambra Commissioner for Basic Education has commended Teachers and Education administrators across the state  for complying with the Jan. 18 resumption directives without their students. Omenugha said this in an interview with Newsmen on Tuesday in Awka…

SON destroys 2,000 substandard cooking gas cylinders

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) destroyed more than 2,000 substandard cooking gas cylinders fabricated in Onitsha and its environs on Tuesday. Supervising the destruction in Enugu, Mr Obinna Manafa, the Director, Inspectorate and Compliance Directorate of SON, said that…

Alex Ekwueme Fed. University in Ebonyi gets new VC

The Governing Council of the Alex-Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi, has appointed Prof. Sunday Oge Elom as the third substantive vice-chancellor of the institution. Mrs Odisa Okeke, Registrar/Secretary of the University Council, said in a statement on Tuesday that the…

4 docked for alleged breach of peace in Ibadan

Four persons were on Tuesday, arraigned at Iwo Road Chief Magistrates’ Court, sitting in Ibadan, for alleged breach of peace in the neighbourhood. Oluwatoke Bamidele, 22, Adewuyi Babatunde, 21, Adebisi Sunday, 20, and Adeleke Bolaji, 19, are being tried each…