Robotel Launches Digital Classroom To Aid Learning

                  Robotel SmartClass, a leader in class room management solutions provider has unveiled its 21st century digital classroom, an initiative to deliver tools for teachers to orchestrate live activities in the classroom and offer students a platform to engage in self study. Speaking during the official launch of the SmartClass+products, Robotel’s Country Manager, Nigeria and West Africa, Mr. Olu Babatunde, said the idea behind the new innovation was as a result of search for new technology which can aid learning process.
“We have discovered that the performance of most of our students in Nigeria in the area of learning new languages is not encouraging, this is not as a result of incompetence of their teachers or lack of commitment by students, but due to the time it requires to teach each student and the unavailability of rehearsing tools.

Court Declines To Stop Wike’s Swearing-in

                   A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, refused an ex-parte application praying it to stop the Chief Judge of Bayelsa State, Justice Kate Abiru, from swearing in the Rivers State governor-elect, Chief Nyesom Wike, on May 29.
Trial judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba, who turned down the application, said granting such would amount to “adding insult upon the injury” of the people of Rivers State, who currently “have no judiciary.”

I’ll Work With Anyone Who Emerges N’Assembly Leader – Buhari

                        The President Elect, Mohammadu Buhari, on Wednesday  reiterated his readiness to work with any leader of the National Assembly, who emerges, irrespective of which part of the country he or she comes from.
This was contained in a statement by his media  team in Abuja.
It quoted Buhari, who is currently on a private visit to the United Kingdom, as saying that the clarification became necessary in view of the continued name-dropping in some circles linking him to some candidates.

FIFA Executives Arrested In Switzerland

                In an early morning raid, Swiss authorities today arrested no fewer than 12 top FIFA officials. They are to be extradited to the United States to face corruption charges, money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud
They were arrested at the baur au Lac Hotel in Zurich, where members of FIFA governing body are gathered for their annual meeting. 

Don’t Allow Crack In Governors Forum, Amaechi Tells Incoming Govs

                   Outgoing Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has advised incoming governors to ensure that there was no crack in the Governors’ Forum, saying that it was the division in their midst that resulted in the alleged looting of public funds at the centre.
Amaechi, yesterday, at a special Mass to mark his 50th birthday at the Corpus Christi Cathedral, Catholic Church, Port Harcourt, said the crack they witnessed in their forum as governors made it relatively difficult for them to confront the Federal Government over issues they were not clear about.

Like Obasanjo Like Buhari

                    The imminent inauguration of General Muhammadu Buhari as president this Friday provokes reminisces of another man who came to office in the same mould – Olusegun Obasanjo.
In his first days in office as a military dictator in 1984, Gen. Buhari severally claimed that his administration was an offshoot of the Murtala/Obasanjo regime. That was until an infuriated Obasanjo came out to denounce any relationship between him and the new regime.

Gaidam Sacks Cabinet, Political Appointees

                        Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State, on Wednesday dissolved the state executive council after a marathon meeting and relieved all political office holders of their appointments.
The immediate past Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Goni Fika, disclosed this on behalf of the governor at a news briefing in Damaturu.