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  You can’t succeed outside your educational qualification – Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said it is difficult to succeed without education. Buhari stated this during a session at the Global Education Summit in London. He observed that Nigerian parents don’t joke with education. The President said they know that if their children or wards missed the opportunity of being educated, they have missed a lot. Noting that the size and population of the country are challenges for any administration, he said the government and people realize that education is the starting point for success. “You can’t succeed outside your educational qualification. Anybody who missed education has missed everything,” he said. The Nigeria leader hailed parents for making sacrifices to ensure that their children and wards got educated. Others on the panel were Presidents Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, Faure Gnassingbe of Togo, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, and Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi.

  FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OYE EKITI (FUOYE): USUAL LIES AND DECEIT OF PROFESSOR ABAYOMI FASINA By Akin Akinsoluga 29|07|2021 The report of the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges meeting held on Wednesday 28th July,  2021 released  by Charlse Ainwon, Special Adviser (Media & Strategy) to Distinguished Senator Ayo Akinyelure, who is the Chairman of the Committee revealed how FUOYE Management lied shamelessly about the meeting even with the fact before them. Remember, this is not her first and might not be last if not checked. The University Management is becoming known to the media as a source of unreliable and misleading information, who choose to live on lies, propaganda, and deceit. The Management hurriedly went to the media to dispel news of the outcome of the Senate Committee on Ethics meeting to deceive and manipulate the public deliberately even when the decision of Committee had been known to them. It is reported that the Vice Chancellor, Abayomi Fasina known ...

TEARS OF JOY FLOWS IN THE SENATE AS AKINYELURE'S COMMITTEE MENDS FENCES It was another moment of joy today in the Senate as Distinguished Senator Ayo Akinyelure, FCA, Senate Committee Chairman on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions used his position to put smile on faces of some petitioners who had approached his Committee for redress. For instance, in a petition brought against the DG/CEO of National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) by Alhaji Haruna Yahaya and two others, the petitioner wrote against the DG over his alleged abandonment of his duty post, gross misconduct and deliberate attempt to frustrate and humiliate the former Principal Officers of NIEPA. They stated that the DG committed the following offences; rendering some senior officers of NIEPA redundant by abolishing their offices, refusal to host and hold Council Meetings since December 2020, over bearing influence of the Ag. Registrar and her overdue stay in acting capacity.  They requ...

Positive reactions, as NASS passes PIB with two regulators July 3, 2021 Print By Obas Esiedesa, ABUJA Experts and other stakeholders working in Nigeria’s petroleum industry have expressed optimism that reforms needed to grow the sector would happen following the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, by the National Assembly on Thursday. The PIB which has been in the making for 20 years would replace the obsolete Petroleum Act of 1969. In his reaction to the passage of PIB, energy expert, Mr. Michael Faniran described it as a welcome development, saying everybody is happy with the National Assembly despite the length of time it took get the Bill passed. Faniran expressed optimism that the Bill when signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari would create an efficient industry with independent governing bodies. “For the Upstream and the Downstream, the governing bodies have clear aims and objectives. It is my hope that this will promote transparency that is not just one person w...

Threat unnecessary, Niger Delta Avengers’ demands already addressed, says Presidency The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) The Presidency on Sunday said it was curious that the Niger Delta Avengers issued threats to resume bombing of critical oil and gas installations less than 48 hours after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), met with the leadership of the Niger Delta and Ijaw National Congress and the major issues responded to. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement titled, ’Demands by Niger Delta Avengers: President Buhari’s response.’ The Niger Delta group had threatened to embark on economic sabotage unless certain demands, including the development of the Niger Delta and restructuring, are met. But Adesina said the text of Buhari’s speech at the meeting with the Niger Delta leaders on Friday, which he reproduced in his press statement, rendered the threats by the group u...