I never knew Gani Fawehinmi in a deep and personal way, but he was of course, rested somewhere in my consciousness, as I’m sure he does in the consciousness of any Nigerian of my generation, as an inevitable testimony of true acts of public heroism. He was indeed the hero of the silent unrepresented; those we love to call the masses. He, therefore, somehow, seemed to belong to all of us.

THREE weeks after two indigense of Orogun kingdom, Ughelli North local government area of Delta State were striped of their chieftancy titles resulting from the recent ill- fated Orogun Progress Union (OPU) election, the ‘Ukomor’ of the clan, Chief Johnson Akporugo, had been sacked by the Okpara-Uku, HRH Otagba Eferobome I of the kingdom.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has raised an alarm over alleged plans by the state government to instigate students and non- governmental organizations (NGOs) to protest the refusal of the state House of Assembly to confirm the list of members of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) as presented to it by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

THE Recent parley between Mr. Lamido Sanusi and the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency might have come and gone, but it left a lot of questions unanswered about both parities. That the CBN governor floored the lawmakers in the opinion of some, have reflected how shallow Nigerians understand the tenets of the 1999 constitution.
CHARLES KUMOLU reports.

THE National President of Urhobo National Youth Council (UNYC), Comrade Monday Oyeghe, has called on Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, to restructure the board of the State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), arguing that programmes of the commission were not people-oriented.

THE Federal government has said that if the nation’s products were well packaged and made attractive especially to the international community, they will command better pricing through adequate promotion at the appropriate places and markets. Speaking in Abuja at the Stakeholders Forum on improvement of non-oil exports, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Chief Achike Udenwa who noted that the situation was affecting the nation’s economy, called on Standards Organisation of Nigeria(SON), Federal Produce Inspection Service(FPIS), National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) as well as other quality control agencies to step up action at educating Nigerian exporters on the urgent need to re-focus on the best standards and qualities that were acceptable in international markets.

A United State based broadcast engineering and capacity building company, Solsan Communication Ventures Limited in collaboration with Broadcasting Organizations of Nigeria (BON) has announced plans to hold a three day Broadcast media workshop at Tinapa
Resort, Cross River State.

STILL basking in the euphoria of its ranking as the leading outsourced contact centre service provider in Nigeria, Contact Solutions Limited (ConSol) last week, celebrated the first International Contact Centre Week in Nigeria.

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka -TWELVE suspected kidnappers who allegedly abducted two elderly women, Janet Akpoke, 90, and Marcelina Alagbogu,  85, as well as a retired headmaster in Imo State, Francis Ngwangwa, 71, and demanded various sums totaling N60 million for their release were yesterday paraded by the men of the State Security Service (SSS) in […]

By Victor Omoregie THE Binis are a people known for their respect and adherence to their tradition and culture. All aspects of their lives is woven round its tradition and culture. As a pointer to this, their traditional rulers (Obas) have always upheld the tenets of the people’s culture and this has made them legendary. […]

Nigeria needs N24 tn to meet MDG target in 2015. Nigeria needs to spend N24trn in the next six years to realize the Millennium Development Goals target by 2015. —Senior Special Adviser Assistant to the Presdient on MDGs, Mrs Fatima Ibrahim, disclosed this to journalists after presenting the second and third quarter reports to President Umaru Yar’Adua in Abuja on Thursday… An average annual requirement of N4trn till 2015 is needed in order to reach the MDGs.

By Dayo Johnson Akure-SAMPLER: “I AM not pleading with Abacha and I will never plead. It is only God I can plead with….I strongly believe that my son is a law abiding citizen. He has not committed any offence to warrant this type of wicked and primitive treatment being meted out to him by Abacha. […]

GANI Fawehinmi has left this part of the world he has been on and in for 71 years. All there is to say is how he faired. And that has been demonstrated since Saturday, September 5 when he passed on after a lonAg battle with an ailment we know little about worldwide, and we have refused to do even the little we can about here.

EVER since the new governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido, announced that some of the well-known banks in Nigeria are not healthy despite the consolidation exercise carried out a few years ago, a lot have been said and written on the matter.

Chief Alex Akinyele is a childhood friend of the late legal icon, Chief Ganiyu Fawehinmi. In this brief interview, Akinyele explains that he also had cancer, prostrate that is, the only difference between him and his late friend was that his was detected very early and immediately operated it. By Bilesanmi Olalekan WHAT kind of […]