LAGOS — Businessman and socialite, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, kept to his promise as he has offered a letter of scholarship to Jeremiah Ekumah. Earlier last week, Ekuma, a young hawker, was caught on camera in the Ajah area of Lagos, giving money to persons who were being transported to prison in a Nigerian Correctional Service van. Obi Cubana, who chairs the Cubana Group, last Saturday, in an interview with media personality,...

CALABAR — Comrade Effanga Ita Scholarship Foundation has given scholarships to 30 indigent students in Cross River. Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Calabar, the originator of the foundation, Mr. Effanga Ita disclosed that the gesture started as a result of the number of out-of-school children he saw in the state. Ita said it was unfortunate that so much had been spent on education in the nation but those at the...