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Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, parents and other stakeholders have expressed divergent views on the decision by the Federal Government to postpone the resumption date of all primary and secondary schools nationwide till October 13 following the recent outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the country. While some stakeholders believe that the move will restrict the spread of the disease, others argue that prolonged stay at home will do more harm than good. What's your take on the current controversial topic?

One of Africa’s richest women and chairman of Famfa Oil, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija yesterday August 27th revealed that she never went to a university, saying one does not need a university education to make it in life. Mrs Alakija said this while speaking withstudents of the University of Lagos during the 2014 UNInternational Youths Day in Lagos. “I come from Ikorodu, Lagos state. I am married to a dashing young lawyer of 70 years of age and we have four grown up gentlemen and grandchildren. It has not been a rag to riches fairytale. It has not been an overnight phenomenon like some cases which you find here and there all over the world. For as long as I can remember, I had always wanted my own business. Hard work…am trying to tell you how I got to where I am if you want those billions. Hard work, diligence, persistence…days where you nearly gave up but I chose not to give up.” Continue… It would have been easy to compromise but I chose not to and I stayed focus. I coul...

In view of the unstable security situation in the country, the Nigerian Communications Commission , NCC, says security agencies will soon commence monitoring of all calls to enhance their operational activities in the country. This Commission announced this recently at a special edition of Consumer Outreach programme organized by the commission at IBB Golf Club, Maitama, Abuja. According to the commission, plans are in the offing to come up with a guideline that will guide the take-off of the plan in such a way that no subscriber’s right or privacy would be breached in the process. Though, the Commission promised to ensure full protection of the rights of every consumer through the proposed guidelines, it however noted that there is no enabling law at the moment to guide the operators on such powers and called for a quick enactment of legislations to give the proposed guideline a legal backing by the time the implementation proper kicks off. According to the commission’s l...

Aside the super structures which rests on the soil of Dubai, it is generally known that Dubai is a home of gold. Therefore it's not strange to see their super rich guys cruising in all-gold made cars.  A gold plated car is driven with a cheetah as co-pilot? Oh well, this is how you can identify the really extravagant guys.

Gunmen, in the early hours of yesterday, stormed an apartment in a block of flats in Unity Estate, Akowonjo area of Egbeda, killing a man, his wife, his child and their maid. Details of the tragic incident that sent cold shivers down the spines of residents of the area were sketchy at press time. Vanguard, however, gathered that the gunmen suspected to be hired assassins, stormed the building at about 2am and fired shots, apparently to wade off intruders. A resident of another flat in the block, who pleaded anonymity, said there was an argument between the gunmen and owner of the flat whose identity could not be immediately ascertained. According to the neighbor, “the gunmen scaled through the fence of the building and held the gate man hostage. “They beat the gate man, tied his hands and asked him to leave the vicinity, threatening to kill him if he alerted the Police. “They, thereafter, made straight for the flat from where we heard argument. We heard the owner of th...

Three hotel attendants, who allegedly recorded a customer’s sexual affair and demanded a ransom of N10 million, were on Thursday charged before an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The employees had used the hotel’s CCTV to record the guest’s sexual exploit with his girlfriend. The accused: Sunday Okon, 23; Rita Emmanuel, 28; and Goodness Akpan, 24, whose addresses are unknown, are facing a four-count charge of fraud, demanding property with menace, conspiracy and indecent practices. Prosecutor Uche Simon told the court that the accused had on Aug. 13 at a hotel in Ogudu area of Lagos conspired to record a guest while sleeping with his girlfriend. According to him, the accused produced a VCD on it which they circulated to residents of the area. He alleged that they also demanded a N10 million ransom and threatened to post it on the facebook if the man failed to part with the money. “The accused actually posted it on the facebook between Aug. 13 and 23.’’ Simon said...