SINCE the controversial sacking of the management of five of the nation’s top banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over alleged professional misconduct, a lot has been happening in the banking sector.

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA – AN end of the road appears to be on the ways of fake drug dealers in Nigeria as the Federal Government yesterday resolved to offer a life jail sentence to anyone caught by the law. To this end, government, through the Ministry of Health, has directed the National Agency for […]

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA -  A thicken plot by some powerful Northern men in the ranks of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to ensure that a second-term governor from the North-East run for the 2011 presidential election should the incumbent President Umaru Yar’Adua declines to run in the political race, yesterday filtered into the air. […]

In obedience to the wish of the late human rights activist and Lagos Lawyer Chief Gani Fawehinmi, the family members have dug his grave beside that of his late mother Alhaja Munirat Fawehinmi who died six years ago.

A chieftain of the Action Congress (AC), Chief Yomi Ogunnusi, has called on the various arms of government and well-meaning Nigerians to give priority attention to adequate funding of education sector in the country.

WORKERS in Lagos State, yesterday, described the late fire brand lawyer as the pillar of workers’ struggles and a genuine social crusader who believed that a just, fair and egalitarian Nigeria is possible.

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia-A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted an Aba, Abia state based human rights group, Human Right, Justice and Peace Foundation (HRJPR), leave to apply for an order of Mandamus to compel the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the National Chairman of the Peoples […]

The National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria Thursday called on the Federal Government to resuscitate doctors’ one year training abroad even as it disclosed that no fewer than 4,000 medical and dental specialists had been produced by the college since its inception.

As the debate on whether or not the 6,000Mw target set by the Federal overnment will be a reality with less than four months to go rages, with some saying it is possible and others saying it is impossible based on what is currently on ground, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, PSC Industries Ltd., Dr. Patrick Owelle has thrown a challenge to the Federal Government saying if indeed the 6,000Mw target must be met by December 2009, then government must adopt a new approach to power generation and depart from the traditional method that has not served the nation over the years. As he puts it: “It is absolutely possible if government embraces solar energy.”

By Olarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) We received the news of the transmutation of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN, from his finitely temporal existence to immortality with a mixed feeling. The sense of loss is profoundly devastating. The mere thought that our adorable Gani will be referred to in past tense is difficult to bear. More unsettling is […]