Daniel Agbolade, Ibadan As part of efforts to internationalize its programmes and deliver on its mandate of technical and entrepreneurial education, Nigeria's only Technical University, Technical University (Tech-U), Ibadan, has signed a Memoradum of Understanding (MOU), with the world-leading provider of equipment and solutions for technical education, Festo Didactic. With the MoU, the university has entered a strategic alliance that would see it leverage on the 55 years’ experience of Festo Didactic. Through the partnership, the university and the world leader in industrial automation technology, producing industrial equipment in the pneumatics and electronics field, would collaborate to enrich the Mechatronics…

U.S. and Iran edged toward a flashpoint Monday as Tehran announced it was breaking compliance with the accord that keeps it from making nuclear weapons and the Trump administration followed by ordering 1,000 more troops to the Middle East. The Pentagon said the deployment includes security forces and troops for additional surveillance and intelligence gathering in the region. While the number is small, it represents an escalation of U.S. military might aimed at deterring Iran and calming allies worried that transit through key shipping lanes could be in jeopardy. Tehran’s announcement earlier Monday means it could soon start to enrich…

Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi, ousted by the military in 2013 after a year in office, collapsed in court while on trial Monday and died, state TV and his family said. The 67-year-old Morsi had just addressed the court, speaking from the glass cage he is kept in during sessions and warning that he had “many secrets” he could reveal, a judicial official said. A few minutes afterward, he collapsed in the cage, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press. In his final comments, he…

Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, yesterday sacked three of his commissioners with immediate effect. The sacked commissioners were Messers Taofeek Abdulsalam of Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Solagbade Amodeni of Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development; and Ismaila Olurimisi of Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The sack was revealed in a statement released late last night by Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Segun Ajiboye. While directing the trio to hand over all government’s property in their possession to the permanent secretaries of their respective ministries, Akeredolu nominated five new commissioners. The nominees are, Mrs. Yetunde Adeyanju;…