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  Mohammed Jibrila Bindow, Adamawa State governor, has commended Fidelity Bank Plc for supporting the development of education in the state and across the country through its sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The Governor, who spoke during the handover ceremony of the newly constructed block of classrooms to the management of Kwarhi B’ Primary, at Mubi, in Hong Local Government Area (LGA), noted that the project was significant as it would go a long way to provide an appropriate learning environment for children in the community. Bindow, who was…

Following an early Monday morning protests by armed mobile policemen on the major streets of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, thousands of students, teachers and lecturers at the Ramat Polytechnic, Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, Arabic College, Government College and Yerwa Girls Secondary Schools among others were prevented from entering their classes and academic activities distrupted. Some of the teachers said, “They could not bear the heavy sounds of gunshots with fleeing bullets around their school premises which is a stone throw to the Police Command Headquarters, venue of the…

Federal High Court, Abuja Division has ordered the Federal Government to release the detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, forthwith, declaring his continued detention as illegal. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, held that FG failed to justify why it has kept Dasuki in detention for over two and half years. It dismissed FG’s claim that the ex-NSA was being detained for the sake of national security and over alleged role he played in the illegal diversion of $2.1billion meant…

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Council Head of Public Affairs, Damianus Ojijeogu during an interview on Saturday disclosed that the results of the 2018 WASSCE for School Candidates will be released in 45 days. The council, he said, was satisfied with the conduct of the just concluded examination for school candidates nationwide. The WASSCE for school candidates commenced on March 27, 2018 and was concluded on May 15, 2018. Below was the speech made by WAEC “We are indeed happy that the examination was conducted in a hitch-free manner.…

A Belgian boy has graduated secondary school aged eight after completing six years’ study in just a year and a half. Laurent Simons, whose father is Belgian and mother Dutch, and has an IQ of 145 according to his parents, collected a diploma with a class of 18-year-olds. Speaking to Belgium’s RTBF radio, Laurent said his favourite subject was maths “because it’s so vast, there’s statistics, geometry, algebra”. After a two-month holiday from school, he will start university. His father said his son had struggled when he was younger to…