Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has described as alarming the number of Nigerian university lecturers staying abroad after studying via TETFund sponsorship. Echono, who disclosed this while speaking with journalists during the TETFund management retreat in Makurdi, Benue State, yesterday, vowed that the board would make the absconded academics refund…

Members of Association of Media and Communication Researchers of Nigeria (AMCRON) have stressed the need for government to support academic research that will engender national development in the country. Speaking at the third AMCRON International Conference and yearly General Meeting (AGM) held at the University of Lagos, recently, President of the association, Prof. Eserinune McCarty…

Despite consistently blaming foreign illegal miners for sponsoring banditry and terrorism in the country, the Federal Government yesterday made a U-turn when it accused some unnamed powerful Nigerians for sponsoring terrorism in areas where the nation’s minerals abound.

Chairman of J.K. Randle Professional Services, Bashorun J.K. Randle, has bemoaned the sorry state of education in the country, saying that government is not doing enough to provide quality education to Nigerians. The former president, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAM), made this observation at the Government Secondary School, Owerri  (GSSO), Old Boys Association,…

The Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), organised a High-Level Private Sector Engagement Forum on Family Planning (HLPF-FP) to reduce maternal mortality in the country. Representing the wife of Lagos State Governor, Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, the Permanent Secretary, Health District VI, Dr. Cecilia Mabogunje, described family planning as an…

Profitable prospects for deep sea mining in Nigeria’s coastal waters topped presentation of the Commonwealth Secretariat to the Nigerian delegation led by Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Oladele Alake on a courtesy visit last week.

The government has been advised to invest pension funds in sectors that have direct impacts on the citizens to support economic development

... As it commences 72 boreholes in five states The Federal Government on Thursday read a riot act to water contractors with a warning that the government would not entertain any substandard contract execution in the Expanded Water Sanitation and Hygiene (PEWASH) Projects. The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof. Joseph Terlumun Utsev, gave…

Sir: Over ninety-five per cent of Nigerians live in extreme poverty, and the country’s citizens have been struggling for eight years and counting in a nation that is currently the seventh-highest oil producer in the world and fourth in Africa. Nigeria is the continent’s fourth-largest oil producer, only behind Libya, Angola, and Algeria.

Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Oladele Alake, has said imminent reforms in the mining industry would separate genuine investors from adventurers. Addressing the Mining Ministers Forum at the China Mining Week 2023 in Tianji, he said the new mineral development roadmap of the Federal Government would solve the lingering problems in the sector. The…

The Federal Government has charged tertiary institutions to prioritize Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses to ensure rapid development of the country