By Uche Anichukwu Two major opinions have been peddled by the media and the Conference of Nigeria Political arties, CNPP ever since the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu spoke at a press conference on the Senate’s action plan for the amendment of the 1999 Constitution. The areas of grouse include two statements credited to Ekweremadu […]

By Betty Irabor The life and times of late Mrs. Madeline Chinyelu Obanye holds aloft the torch of tenderness, passion and justice, even in death; and leaves us with no option than to celebrate the exit into greater and divine glory of a national icon and a stellar model to all of us. Like the […]

The Anambra state governorship election has again become a subject of litigation before our court, this time, before the Court of Appeal, Enugu at the instance of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and Governorship candidate of the party in Anambra state in the 2007 general elections, Dr Andy Uba, who was just a Governor for […]

As the UN General Assembly meets this week in New York, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to urgently  and publicly commit Nigeria to the ratification of the new UN Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” The Protocol, adopted by the UN […]

FACTS emerging from factories across the country indicate that employers avid for profit at all cost is rapidly compounding their care free attitude to health and safety issues at work places. Almost on a daily basis, various degrees of industrial accidents are recorded, from minor to major injuries to employees.