All activities, including vehicular movement along the Benin-Lagos road, were yesterday forced to a standstill for several hours as thousands of Bini youth took to the streets of Benin City to protest the inclusion of the University of Benin on the list of universities to receive Visitation Panels by the Federal Ministry of Education. The protesting youth, under the auspices…

The Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, yesterday said that his administration is thinking of creating local council development areas in the future to boost development at the grassroots. The governor who disclosed this while on a tour of Efon, Ekiti West and Ijero Local Government Areas said there is the need to follow due process in getting such council development…

Mrs Funmi Olayinka Beautiful Ekiti Deputy Governor, Mrs Funmi Olayinka, has lived all her life in Lagos and this fact does not escape anyone except some group of street urchins, called ‘Area Boys’ who found out the hard way. The alluring Ekiti number two citizen had come to grace the Seminar by Women in Management and Businness, WIMBIZ,at the Muson…

I know the question popping up in your mind right now is probably what could be up with Chidi Mokeme this time. So much gists, both unsavoury and a bit off-key have been peddled about the Nollywood hotshot who came off the Vanguard’s Sexiest in Nollywood as the Hunk of Nollywood 2011 that one begins to wonder if the guy…

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, yesterday sent its students home indefinitely after students disrupted school activities for more than two days, protesting the school's increased acceptance fee. Students prevented motorists from entering or departing via the school's two main entrances, forcing hundreds to walk at least two kilometres to get to the main campus. The protesters said they were…

A secondary school principal in Edo State has been suspended for allegedly hiring out some of the school's facilities for commercial purposes. The Principal, Patricia Boseh of Adesuwa Secondary School, Benin, was suspended following an unscheduled visit to the school by the commissioner for education in the state, Ngozi Osarenren and top officials of the ministry. Mrs Osarenren was said…

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Despite huge contributions of women, there yet remains a lot more to be done in giving women a more balanced access to opportunities and removing practices that harm and put women at disproportionate risks. Practices like female genital mutilation/cutting and other demeaning practices have over the years deprived women the joy of a balance access to equal opportunities in a…

Nollywood diva Ebube Nwagbo added a year on (Thursday) yesterday and to mark the occasion, she took to the streets  to celebrate with the beggars. Ebube Nwagbo An elated Ebube, who only last year joined the growing ranks of top celebrities who own branded products in their names by unleashing a 100 per cent human hair known as Posh Hair,…

Indy label X3M Music and Etcetera announced, early today, that they would no longer be working together. The Lagos-based label, founded by Steve Babaeko, has pushed Etetera for over three years, kicking against all odds to establish the singer-musician as a talent to court, in an environment where rock is so not fashionable. Several chart-topping hits, two albums, and multiple…