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By LEKAN BILESANMI Pa Adebisi Adegoke, 85, and a former chief relations officer of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, retired in 1990. In this interview, he speaks on how he, a Muslim, has been living with his Christian wife, Iyabo, 74, for the past 52 years and why the railway of his time was effective. The beginning I was born in 1928 in Oyan, Osun State. At a very early age, I was taken to Ghana where I started Quranic School. My uncle had sent for me to come there. The idea then was that I would be trading with him because he was a trader, and at the same time schooling, but it was when I got there that he discovered that that I was too fragile to be involved in trading. So, I started going to Quranic School first before going to conventional school. This was after I had clocked 13. I went to Ogbomosho Baptist School established by Ogbomosho settlers in Ghana. Then I went to Anshate Kotoko School. I returned home in 1946 after I had completed Standard Six. It was in Saint Paul’s Sch...

Lagos  -  In pursuit of its vision to become the most loved brand in the daily lives of Nigerians, leading Telecommunications Services Provider, Airtel Nigeria, has made a bold intervention in the advancement of primary education in Cross River State with the adoption of Presbyterian Primary School 2, Ediba in Abi local government area of Cross River State. The commissioning ceremony of a block of eight classrooms and staff offices at the Presbyterian Primary School 2, is scheduled to hold on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 at the school premises. The Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, and the Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Segun Ogunsanya, will lead other guests to unveil the renovated school. This is coming barely two months after a similar project was commissioned in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State with Mrs. Olufunso Amosun, wife of the state Governor unveiling the commissioning plaque with support from state Government officials, education autho...

Lagos - The Ibadan Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will not call off its strike until the Federal Government meets the union’s demands, according to the Zonal Coordinator, Dr Adesola Nassir. Nassir stated the union’s stance at a news conference at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Wednesday. The union embarked on a nationwide indefinite strike on July 1 over claims that the Federal Government had failed to implement parts of the  agreement they signed in 2009. ``We as members of the ASUU Ibadan Zone, comprising University of Ibadan, University of Lagos, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Lagos State University, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and Tai Solarin University of Education, have resolved to remain on strike. ``This we are doing along with our other colleagues nationwide, for as long as it takes the government to be faithful to the implementation of the agreement and commence the process of renegotiating the 2009 agreement. ``This is not meant to inflic...

By EEMEKA AGINAM, in St Petersburg The 2013 edition of Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition, the football World Cup equivalent in software design attracted no fewer than 309 students from 71 countries who have gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia to compete in three main categories like World Citizenship, Games and Innovation. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition where students to use their imagination and passion to create a technology solution in one of the Microsoft competitions and challenges. Meanwhile, more than 60% of projects on showcase at the ongoing 2013 Microsoft Imagine students’ software competition were housed in the cloud through windows Azure, The Windows Azure marketplace is an online market for buying, and selling finished software as a service (SaaS) applications and premium data. This is even as four software incubators from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ilefe, (OAU) and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (Lautech) Ogbomos...