An antigraft forum is set to hold in France Nigeria's vice president has departed for the event which holds in Paris Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria's vice president, has departed for Paris in France. Osinbajo is off to attend the anti-corruption and integrity forum of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development holding Thursday and Friday, March 29th and 30th. BREAKING: VP Osinbajo jets off to Paris for antigraft forum The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement. According to him, Osinbajo will speak at the forum which brings global leaders, government ministers, business leaders and civil society representatives together to discuss the cost of corruption, the use of political donations to buy influence, developments in corporate liability for graft and the role of export controls in countering bribery. Daily Trust reports that the vice president's ...
By Jose Mourinho’s mathematics, Claudio Ranieri should be almost 80 years old. The Chelsea manager aimed a stinging barb at his counterpart when their hostilities were at their height in 2008, branding him ‘almost 70’ and ‘too old to change his mentality’ when they were at rival Serie A clubs. Ranieri, then in charge of Juventus, was 56. He only turned 64 in October. They are a combustion of styles and personalities and it has made for a lively relationship. Mourinho forever the outspoken antagonist with self-confidence brimming into arrogance. Ranieri older, more mature and with touch of class and self-awareness.
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the June/July 2016 Senior Secondary Schools results. Registrar of the Council, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, while announcing the results at the Headquarters in Minna, said 88.51 percent of the candidates got at least five credits including Mathematics and English Language. According to him, 905,011 (84.54 per cent) of candidates got 5 credits and above in English Language while 812,846 (80.16 percent) got 5 credits and above in Mathematics. He said the comparative analysis of candidates performance in the examination for 2015 and 2016 shows that there is one percent (1%) improvement in the general performance of candidates in 2016 (88.51%) as compared with 2015 (87.51%). The analysis of candidates performance by State has Ekiti State recording the highest of 96.48 percent and Katsina State recording the least with 72.59 percent. Prof. Uwakwe said that 1,022,474 candidates in Nigeria and other countries sat and ...
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