1. ADAMAWA The
POOREST State IN NIGERIA: Nigeria’s
Adamawa State, home of Nigeria’s former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, ranks
lowest on the country’s human development index in education, economic growth
and human capacity among others, a development expert, Dr Solomon Mamuru, has
said. Mamuru, Deputy Director, Academic Planning at the Adamawa State
University, spoke in Abuja on Wednesday, adding that unless drastic measures
were taken to address the dwindling fortunes of education in the state, the
state would continue to decline.
7. BANKING SCHOOL soon in OGUN State:
Ogun State government is planning to
establish a Banking School in the State before the end of this year. Governor
Ibukunle Amosun told NEWSMEN that the Banking School will later be upgraded to
a University status. Governor Ibukun also added that he will ensure that the suspended ‘banking & finance’ course
at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic will be reaccredited.
8. TRANSCORP HILTON Hotel is In BIG TROUBLE:
One of Nigeria’s biggest hotels, Transcorp
Hilton Abuja, has been dragged to court by Copyright Society of Nigeria
(COSON), the nation’s sole government approved Collective Management
Organization for musical works and sound recordings. In the
copyright infringement action filed by the Abuja based law firm of Ifeanyi
Opara & Co, COSON is also suing the American company, Hilton International
Manage LLC, which manages hundreds of hotels in several countries across the
globe.
9. TRAGEDY!
Italian MAN kills Nigerian PROSTITUTE:
An Italian man has been arrested over the murder
of a Nigerian prostitute after police searching her apartment found a short
story he wrote with close similarities to the killing. Police in the northern
Italian city of Turin discovered the nine-page story entitled "The Rose
and the Lion" among the belongings of Anthonia Egbuna, whose body was
fished out of the river Po in February. Anthonia had been stabbed to death.
10. LAFIA
Courts Shut DOWN:
Magistrate courts in Lafia,
Nasarawa State were shut down on Wednesday as the state’s chapter of the
Magistrates Association of Nigeria (MAN) embarked on an indefinite strike
action. There were also reports of some magistrate courts in other parts of the
state suffering the same fate. Magistrates were seen formed in groups
discussing the strike in many of the courts.
FOREIGN NEWS
11. Universities Shut
Down In Sri Lankan (Asia)
About 2,000
teachers and students held a mass rally in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, a
day after the government shut down most universities. Academics have been on
strike since the beginning of July, demanding more money for education and less
of what they see as government interference. Strikers oppose plans for
private-sector involvement in universities, which have always had state
funding.
NEWS EDITOR: ENDY EDESON.
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