Photonews: Prez. Buhari in Sokoto to honour Sultan, unveil 500 housing units
Day: 7 November 2016
Heritage Bank plans N10m challenge for student athletes to break Mary Onyali’s 20yr old record
The Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director, Heritage Bank, Ifie Sekibo, has set aside a N10m trust fund for any athlete that can break the 200 metre record set by ex-international, and Skoolimpics Ambassador, Mary Onyali. The MD while declaring the pilot edition of the Heritage Bank-Lagos State Skoolimpics 2016 open said he would be setting aside the sum of N10m that would be yielding interests and handed over to any athlete discovered at the competition who was able to break Onyali’s record. Onyali’s 200-metre record of 22.07secs was set 20 years…
Read MoreThe New Oyo State Education Policy: Ruin or Legacy? Yusuff Olayode Supoto
It saddens that education has lost its glories. A peep into the system of education in Nigeria reflects that a more efficient curriculum needs to be in place. However, every time new effect is added to Nigeria’s education policy, our people begin to politicize priorities, resulting in divided opinions that point to the fact that some are not even after the success of the country. To counter a policy, it is important one weighs the glories available from it, with the bad that may at the end emanate, giving a…
Read MoreOGUN STUDENTS WIN 2016 COWBELLPEDIA COMPETITION IN A THRILLING FINAL ‘BATTLE’
Friday, November 4, 2016, Lagos, Nigeria: It was a mixture of excitement and celebration as the 2016 Cowbellpedia Mathematics Competition came to a glorious end last weekend with Juliet Ekoko and Ayoola Oguntade, both of The Ambassadors College, Ota, Ogun State winning the Junior and Senior categories respectively. The winners got N1 million each and an all-expense paid education excursion outside the country. In a thrilling final encounter in the junior category, Ekoko subdued Oreofe Daniels of The Ambassadors College, Ota, Ogun State; Oluwafunmbi Fakorede of Bibo Oluwa Academy, Ilesa,…
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