The government, also yesterday, announced that of the N19.5bn Special Intervention Fund for the country’s aviation sector by former President Obasanjo’s administration to salvage the ailing sector in 2005, only N3.5 billion was left for the Yar’Adua government.

It is highly incomprehensible that a government which prides itself as embracing due process and rule of law would tend to renege on an agreement reached after a formal bargaining process,” according to Nelson.

They argued that the much-touted plan by Nigeria joining the league of 20 most developed economies in 2020 would be a mirage without proper funding of the educational sector.

Gates to the General Post Office in Marina, Lagos and other post offices were under lock and key. The News Agency of Nigeria also had its services disrupted as a result of the strike.

The disclosure came even as Vanguard gathered that investigations into the alleged involvement of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in the sharing of millions of dollars of the bribe money, have failed to yield any fruit.

According to the Nigerian constitution, any time the federal government carries out a review of salary of civil and public servants under which category soldiers fall, such review is automatically supposed to be reflected in the monthly take home benefits of pensioners; military pensioners inclusive.

Senator Chris Adighije who was also cited among the bank debtors also yesterday defrayed the N1.9 million debt credited to him but alleged bad politics on the part of Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, the chairman of the Senate committee on Banking in listing him among the big-time debtors.

The NAFDAC boss also explained that one of the new strategies adopted by the Agency was to put the power of detecting and reporting incidence of counterfeit medicines in the hands of consumers, using short message service (SMS) based technology like GSM phones.

The sureties, according to the court, must be a resident of Lagos State with a traceable addresses.

Muka told Vanguard in Asaba yesterday afternoon that “all necessary arrangements have already been put in place to ensure hitch-free court session”, adding that “a unit of PMF (Police Mobile Force) personnel has been deployed to ensure the verdict is violence-free”.

However, sources hinted further that after the girl got home, her father discovered that his daughter was walking with some difficulty and demanded an explaination. She later narrated how she was lured into the school library by her headmaster and had canal knoeledge of her.

Yet the Honourable Minister of Education has deliberately tried to mislead the public to believe that ASUU’s agreement requires N78 billion, when, in fact, it requires less than 30% of that amount.”

By Victor Ahiuma-Young RECENTLY, the umbrella body for editors in the country, Nigeria’s   Guild of Editors (NGE), gathered in Awka, the Anambra State capital to among other things, take a critical look at the state of the nation which has been of great concern to many Nigerians in recent time.

As a girl or woman in our kind of society, you hardly can muster that will power to utilize that option. With the present state of economy, there is very little most women can do.

This is a clear reflection of the scant respect many western institutions have for Africans and their institutions. What about the looted/stolen Ife objects that are found in Western Museums?