The management of Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri has expelled about 60 students of the institution including those in final year for making below 1.00 grade points. Those who made above 1.00 but below 1.5 grade points for the 2011/ 2012 session were asked to repeat. The acting Vice Chancellor of IMSU, Professor Ukachukwu Aloysius Awuzie said the Senate of the Institution initiated the measure in order ...

The Director General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Yusuf Abdallah Usman has warned some individuals, organizations/institutions and State Governments who have been setting up private Museums without the necessary and statutory supervision, regulation and approval by the Commission. Mr Usman made this call in Ilorin during the celebration of this year’s International Museum Day ...

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has called on wealthy individuals in the state to embark on projects that will give back to their communities of origin. The Governor said this while commissioning a block of eight classrooms in Evbobanosa Orhiowon Local Government Area rebuilt General Superintendent, New Covenant Church, Rev. Felix Omobude. Reverend Felix Omobude said he embarked on the project ...

The Isoko North Local government council in collaboration with the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has built a 46 bed fully equipped cottage hospital including a doctors and nurses quarters and a theatre in Ekuigbo Iyede. During the commissioning of the hospital, the secretary to the state government, Comrade Ovuozorie Macualay commended the effort of the state government ...

The Yobe state Government has approved N187.4 million as assistance to those whose houses were burnt and those killed by unidentified gunmen or bomb blast in the state. Rising from the executive council meeting held in Damaturu the state capital, on Wednesday the council said it hope the money will assist those whose houses were burnt while relatives of those killed by the insurgents will be assisted. The s ...

The Delta State Government has directed that any herdsman who allowed his cattle to destroy farm crops or kill or cause bodily harm to farmers in the state would be arrested and expelled. The Hausa-Fulani Leaders in such communities will be made to fish out the culprits. The Secretary to the State Government, Ovuozorie Macaulay, who briefed journalists at the end of the State Security Council meeting held i ...

The Kwara State Government has said it plan to boost industrialization and commercialization with generation of 100 Megawatts of electricity through an Independent Power Project (IPP) as part of its plans to create an industrial cluster across the state. According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communication to the Kwara State Governor, Muyideen Akorede the IPP project was the h ...

The Delta state government has announced plans to construct two flyover bridges in its two commercial cities of Asaba and Warri in a bid to curb traffic that has plagued both cities following the ban of commercial motorcycles (okada). The state’s Commissioner of Information, Chike Ogeah during a press briefing revealed this, where he pointed out that the state government has ratified some projects which cut ...

The Police force command in Lagos on Tuesday paraded four suspected men who specialised in selling human parts to herbalists and ritualists. The suspects confessed that human heads were sold for N8000, hands goes for N4000 and private parts are sold at N10,000. The suspects were arrested by officers of Special Anti-Robbery squad of the Lagos state command in Oja-Odan and other areas of Owode -Yewa in Ogun s ...

A former Minister of Education and World Bank Vice President for Africa, Obiageli Ezekwesili, on Tuesday commended the Babatunde Fashola administration in Lagos State for its pace-setting work and unwavering commitment to improving the standard of education in the state. The former Minister who delivered the keynote address at the opening of the third Lagos State Education Summit with the theme, “Qualitativ ...