The federal government has granted the University of Ibadan and Obafemi Awolowo University approval to award degree certificates in traditional medicine practice. The National Association of Nigerian Traditional Medicine Practitioners (NANTMP) National President, Omon Oleabhiele, confirmed the unprecedented development in the Edo State. He said the Federal Ministry of Health had already inaugurated the body

  The federal government Thursday distributed N100 billion to 59 public universities as its first intervention fund for the provision of critical infrastructure in the  institutions. It also appealed to the Academic Staff  Union of  Universities (ASUU) to call off its strike and allow resumption of activities in the ivory towers. But its plea may have not

  Graduates have taken over most car wash businesses in Kaduna metropolis to end their endless search for formal jobs. A correspondent who went round the city reports that the operators were making brisk business and smiling to the banks. Julius Samba, a graduate of the University of Maiduguri, who operates a car wash centre

  An Italian teenager who wrote to Pope Francis got a shock when the Catholic leader called him up for a chat — the latest example of the pontiff’s down-to-earth approach. Francis called up a journalist friend on the day of his election and even phoned a newspaper stand in Buenos Aires to cancel his