As part of efforts to reinforce the importance of education, 1Goal initiative was launched to help rally support for the education of about 75 million students who are out of school. The initiative basically, has three objectives.

EDO State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, reprimanded policemen in his convoy, who fired gunshots into the air to scare away protesting students, threatening to take disciplinary action against them.

It was a meeting of minds in Lagos last week, when the organized private sector under the auspices of the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association ( NECA) hosted the finance minister, Mr. Olusegun Aganga. The meeting was different from the usual reading of addresses. For the private sector, it was time to present a case to the government on the challenges to their businesses and why white collar jobs will continue to elude thousands of able and qualified Nigerians.

NATIONAL Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday alerted the nation on the constraints before the commission which may significantly hinder the commission’s effort to prepare the voters’ register and conduct the 2011 elections.

Recently, the military hierarchy began to make a case for the withdrawal of military men from the barely six years old Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, introduced by the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired general of the Nigerian Army.