Imoh Essien, a teacher from Special Education Centre for Exceptional Children, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State has emerged the 2016 Maltina Teacher of the Year at the grand finale in Lagos on Thursday. For the feat, Essien was rewarded with One Million Naira in addition to Five Hundred Thousand Naira he received as state champion from…
All seems not well in The Apostolic Church, TAC, as different factions have emerged and accusing fingers being pointed at will. One issue that is threatening to tear the church apart, we learnt, is tribalism. In a recent interview, one of the pastors accused leadership of the church in Nigeria of fuelling the tribalism crisis.…
**That’s Not Me In The Video A beauty queen in Anambra State has been accused of ‘self-servicing’, though she has vehemently denied the allegation. It was said that the 2015 Miss Anambra, Chidinma Okeke, was filmed using cucumber to pleasure herself and a friend. How the visuals got to the internet has baffled her friends,…
Technology evolves every day, thus it is important to stay updated. While young Nigerians who were born during the outbreak of modern technology have no problems keeping abreast and coping with the complexities and intricacies of modern technology as well as the internet, their parents, on the other hand, who grew up pre-technology era seem…
According to reports, the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, has launched an investigation into allegations that the Acting Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, Dr Ayodele Olaosebikan was involved in a fraud. Islander Magazine reports that the matter has been transferred to ICPC’s headquarters in Abuja. It was reported that the Rector, the…
Lagos State Commissioner for Tourism, Folorunsho Folarin-Coker, fondly called Folly Coker, has been dropped by the state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode. Also removed from the cabinet of Ambode were two other Commissioners; Dr Mustapha Akinkunmi in charge of the Ministry of Finance and Dr Ekundayo Mobereola in charge of the Ministry of Transportation. However, Ambode did…
There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of creative work: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. Both feelings were all what prominent brand pusher, Paul Inyang, the dude behind the fledgling multiple award-wining brand company, Megaplux Global Access, enjoyed recently when his company was awarded with…
Oluwatunmise Idowu, a student of Scholars Universal Secondary School, Ota, Ogun State once again stunned the organisers of the on-going 2016 Cowbellpedia Mathematics Television Quiz Show with her performance in the second semi-final of the competition last weekend. Tunmise who survived a tensed second ’60 seconds of fame’ to qualified for the final stage of…
The Maltina Teacher of the Year 2016 will be unveiled at a grand ceremony in Lagos on Thursday, October 20th, 2016. The event, organized to celebrate and showcase exceptional teachers and the teaching profession, will be held at the Grand Ball Room, Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. The race for the Maltina Teacher of the…
An early morning inferno that occurred on Saturday has claimed the life of one of the sons of Bayelsa State Chairman of Board of Internal Revenue, Nimbofa Ayawe. Also lost to the fire incident was the fiancée of the deceased. The raging inferno reportedly razed down the building at about 4am on Saturday and those…