Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Ambassador of United States of America (USA) to Nigeria, Mr. Stuart Symington, on Monday, said the government and people of his country will continue to believe in both human and material endowments God gave Nigeria despite the various socio-economic challenges confronting the country. The Ambassador who said this in his speech at the 2018 Earth Day ceremony held at University of Ibadan, however urged Nigerians to work for things that will make the country more "united and more secured in 2019" rather than things that will divide the country before the 2019 elections. He maintained that his…

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has come hard on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying its stifling of education funding is preparing the country for a greater future doom. Chairman of University of Ibadan branch of the union, Mr Deji Omole, who said this on Monday while speaking with journalists in Ibadan, stated that the nonchalant attitude of the Buhari-led government to education appears to be the worse in the history of the country with about seven per cent allocation to education. According to him, the failure to vote enough money to public varsity education…

A former Vice-Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Mr Ikenna Onyido, has raised the alarm at the rate Nigerian universities are churning out what he called lazy professors. He also condemned the way PhD certificates were being awarded to undeserving persons, describing such practice as more dangerous than Boko Haram insurgence. The ex-VC spoke on Monday as a guest lecturer at the 55th meeting of Committee of Deans of Schools of Postgraduate Studies of Nigerian Universities held at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State. He tasked the committee to design iron-cast quality control and adequate sanctions…

Some passengers feared for their lives during the flight's first attempt to land. A Southwest Airlines flight from Florida to New Orleans on Saturday left passengers worried that the plane was going to crash. After trying to land in New Orleans during a storm, the flight was diverted to Panama City, Florida, to refuel and wait it out.Some passengers wondered why the flight attempted to land in New Orleans at all. Some Southwest Airlines passengers thought they were headed for a crash as their flight from Florida to New Orleans attempted to land on Saturday during a storm. According to…