Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State told the crowd of workers that no amount of wage increase could really solve the problems of workers and called on the leadership of workers in the country to seek for alternative ways of making life meaningful for workers.

It was a glorious entry for Acting President Goodluck Jonathan as thousands of workers cheered him as he drove into the Eagle Square at about 10.40 am yesterday.

Faith represents the crop of some ruthless young women the society is suddenly grappling with. Pretty with a degree under her belt, she was very lucky to be employed by one of the mobile phone network companies. Her boyfriend of almost six years, with whom she went to the university, wasn’t so lucky with employment.

Now, if the incident of a taxi cab being driven under the belly of a fully-loaded plane which took place the other week at Margaret Ekpo airport in Calabar, had taken place in Lagos or Abuja, I’m sure its full horror would have been communicated to most Nigerians. There would have been a huge outcry on the lapse in security which allowed the incident to take place.

by Oscarline ONWUEMENYI The parlous state of the Nigerian power sector received a shot in the arm with the recent issuance of a $100 million grant by the World Bank to guarantee private investment within the sector, under the Commercial Reorientation of the Electricity Sector Toolkit (CREST) initiative of the bank. According to the World […]