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Suicide bomb at all-boys school in northern Nigeria kills 48 A reported 79 injured after bomb went off during morning assembly Suicide bomber dressed in school uniform entered schoolyard  Police believe terror organisation Boko Haram is responsible Massacre took place one day after Boko Haram leader rejected peace talks. A terrorist attack on an all-boys school in northen Nigeria killed 48 students and teachers and injured 79 after a suicide bomber detonated during morning assembly. The perpetrator was dressed in a school uniform, and entered the schoolyard in Potiskum, Yobe state, on Monday morning before carrying out the attack among the students. Local police believe Boko Haram is responsible for the attack on the secondary school, which follows a 'western curriculum'.  +5 Bomb: At least 48 teenagers died, and 79 were injured, after a suicide bomber dressed in school uniform detonated during morning assembly at a secondary school in Yobe...

EDUCATION “ On Health and Education “the level of immunization of Children against dangerous childhood diseases, in the South-East is 44.6% immunization coverage, but the North-West has 3.7% and the North-East 3.6%.” “If you take the education of the girl-child as indicator, you see similar pattern of inequality with the South-East having an enrolment rate of 85%, South-Wes having an enrolment rate of 85%, South-South 75%, while the North-East 20% and North West 25%." Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations in his address lamented the poverty level of the North using grim statistics. AS many as 93% of female children across northern Nigeria are being denied access to secondary school education according to recent statistics just revealed the situation would be detrimental to the economy. cited the instance of Jigawa State, where school completion rate among female pupils is as low as 7% as an ...

Are you a great leader or just a mere manager? Here's how to tell the difference. When I think about the difference between great leaders and mere managers , I think back to a day when I put my foot in my mouth. I was working as a lawyer for a giant government bureaucracy then. One of my bosses had a fancy title, but everyone referred to him simply as a "manager." One day, he was grumbling a bit about his role. He was caught in a sort of bureaucratic no man's land--uninvolved in the big policy decisions, but also no longer doing the fun part of our work (trying cases in court). Without thinking, I said something like, "That's why I'd never want your job. Just because they call someone a manager doesn't mean they get to be a leader."  This was a pretty stupid thing for me to say, but I still think my point was right. In some organizations, almost anyone can get promoted to management if they put in the time and play the rig...

According to an Encomium magazine report, wealthy Nigerians spend close to 35 billion Naira on maintenance of their private jets. Find the full report below... Wealthy Nigerians are living large, with the richest among us shelling out billions of naira on private jets and their maintenance. Interestingly, the 250 private jet owners in Nigeria splash an average of N34.9 billion annually to maintain their expensive toys. Encomium Weekly’s check revealed that aside splashing over N1.8 trillion to acquire their jets, they spend an estimated N9 billion annually as salary to their expatriate pilots and N900 million annually to the crew, while a whopping N25 billion is splashed on general maintenance annually by them. Continue.. Information available to Encomium revealed that two expatriates usually man these toys and their take home monthly salary is N1.5 million. That means an average of 500 pilots are in charge of the wheel of these jets. Thus, monthly, the 250 jet o...

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT +23 Devastating: An explosion has killed at least 21 people in a shopping mall in the Nigerian capital Abuja an hour before the national football team started playing in Brazil +23 Wounded: At least 17 more people were injured in the blast, including this man being helped to safety. The government has said it will check the activities of 'insurgents' +23 Brutal: Rescue workers carry the remains of a person in a body bag after the bomb in the crowded mall. Witnesses reported seeing shoppers covered in blood +23 Rescue: Police Superintendent Frank Mba said 17 people were wounded and 21 bodies were recovered, with rescue work still ongoing at the shopping mall in the capital +23 Devastation: A Nigerian soldier at the scene of the explosion which killed 21 people and wounded 17 more in the capital Abuja. Violence is becoming more frequent ...