According to our sources, efforts are still going on to resolve the crisis.
ASUU officials and representatives of government met on 23rd September in Awka, Anambra State. At the meeting were Dr. Jaja Nwanegbo, Julius Ofodile and Levi Chinyaka Nwodu, on the ASUU side. The Government team had Barrister (Mrs) Ngozi Emelifeonwu, Head of Service, Professor Ikechukwu Ike and few others.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday sealed off the houses of former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose, located in Ibadan over what it described as his failure to obey court orders.

FORMER Director General of the Center for Democratic Studies, CDS, Prof. Omo Omoruyi, yesterday, admonished the Federal Government and the National Assembly to shift the handing over date further to allow the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct a free and fair elections next year.

Nigeria had its own version of Gandhi, in the person of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, who built on the sound nationalist foundations of Pa Herbert Macauley. “Zik”, as his admirers fondly called him, was the doyen of African nationalism, who inspired other Black African giants such as Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Madiba Nelson Mandela and the others.

CHAIR-MAN of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, warned staff of the commission that there would be no tolerance for corruption of any kind in the forthcoming 2011 polls.

Ex-Jigawa State Governor, Senator Saminu Turaki along with his loyalists may soon dump the ruling PDP for one of the three political parties over alleged sidelining and breach of trust from the government of Governor Sule Lamido in the last three years.

By George Onah Port Harcourt—There was a fierce gun battle at about 9.55 a.m., yesterday, at Ihie Obieku, Abia State, along the Port Harcourt – Aba Expressway between a joint military/ police team and some gunmen, who blocked the road and were robbing and kidnapping travellers. At the peak of the gun duel, which lasted […]

There was a fierce gun battle at about 9.55 a.m., yesterday, at Ihie Obieku, Abia State, along the Port Harcourt – Aba Expressway between a joint military/police team and some gunmen who blocked the road and were robbing and kidnapping travellers.

THE sincere commitment toeducation of the present Adamawa State government has brought the ideals of the Universal Basic Education programme to reality as the construction of ultra-modern classroom blocks in primary and junior secondary schools across its 21 local government areas has widened access to basic education.

ABA, the commercial capital of Abia State was literally shut down yesterday on account of the activities of hoodlums, especially kidnappers.

The living always modify or falsify perspectives to justify what they think of the dead. But, that is understandable especially when the dead lived a life so complex and ordinarily incomprehensible to most people.

Former President Obasanjo, has said the country had a lot to celebrate at 50. Obasanjo who was speaking in a lecture entitled: “Nigeria – 50 years after independence: What manner of celebrations?” at the graduation of the Redeemer’s University of Nigeria, at Ibafo, Ogun State, said: “I see hope and great future for Nigeria. Nigeria is land-abundant, resource-abundant and labour-abundant.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, commended the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for stimulating growth of the Nigerian economy even as former President Olusegun Obasanjo said that Nigeria has a lot to celebrate at its 50th independence anniversary because the country is ‘God’s work in progress.’

CHAIRMAN of the Senate Committee on Information and Media, Senator Ayogu Eze, said, yesterday, that the process of amendments of the constitution and the Electoral Act to accommodate the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission for an extension of time for the elections would be concluded within one month.

IT can be rightly claimed that the media, especially the print, is the foremost founding father of this
nation, not the least because those who fought for Nigeria’s independence were either journalists or used the instrument of the press rather than armed struggle as other decolonising entities like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa, Algeria Mozambique and Angola.