Benue State Government says it has closed down 2,219 secondary schools over poor standards. The State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr Dannis Ityavyar, a professor, disclosed this on Tuesday in Makurdi, the state capital while fielding questions from members of the House of Assembly, who sought explanations over the dwindling standards of education. Ityavyar also disclosed that 19 tertiary institutions were closed down for the same reason. He said that the state government was working toward improving the quality of education, declaring that mushroom schools would not be allowed to operate. The commissioner expressed regrets that government had…

National Youth Service Corps has said the scheme will redeploy any corps member who feels unsafe in states where activities of Fulani herdsmen have led to loss of lives. Director General of NYSC, Mr Suleiman Kazaure, a Brigadier-General, said this on Tuesday during the inspection of the NYSC Orientation Camp in Ede, Osun State. The DG, represented by Director, General Service, Mr Abdulrasak Salawu, said this in an interview with journalists after the inspection. He said the scheme would not post corps members into areas where they were not sure of their security. Kazaure, who said he was impressed with…

There is high level of resistance to antibiotics by a number of serious bacterial infections. This is happening in both high- and low-income countries, World Health Organization, WHO’s first release of surveillance data on antibiotic resistance reveals. The report – Global Antimicrobial Surveillance System (GLASS) published on WHO’s website, reveals widespread occurrence of antibiotic resistance among 500,000 people with suspected bacterial infections across 22 countries. The most commonly reported resistant bacteria were Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae, followed by Salmonella spp. Among patients with suspected bloodstream infection, the proportion that had bacteria resistance to at least…

Mr CG, rather than meeting us here at the conference room by way of courtesy, you are supposed to have met us at the ground floor on arrival into the premises — Melaye I don’t need to come downstairs to receive you just as nobody in the Senate or House of Representatives has ever come out to receive us anytime we visit the National Assembly — Col. Ali It was meant to be a routine visit, but yesterday’s oversight duty by senators at the Customs headquarters turned out to be more. It sparked another confrontation between them and Comptroller General…