A Reverend, Akanji Kehinde and two others have been dragged before an Ikeja High Court for allegedly defrauding one Rose Patrick to the tune of N7 million over a non existing Nigeria Football Association, NFA contract.

Justice Tajudeen Odunowo, retired from the Federal High Court bench, after sitting for many years.
Even after retirement, he had been involved in a number of arbitration matters. In this interview, he spoke on the role of the National Judicial Council, NJC, in addressing issues relating to judges welfare, discipline and many other national issues.

Over the last 12 weeks, strike- the six-letter word that sends cold shivers down the spine of the hapless Nigerian has had cause to rear its head in the health sector. A last-ditch attempt to avert the latest strike had hit the rocks, Regrettably, the issue of strike has almost become a permanent feature in the nation’s health industry but even as government health institutions in Lagos are reeling under the onslaught of a paralysing doctors’ strike, worse may yet come if feelers from the aggrieved doctors are anything to go by. For the umpteenth time, doctors in Lagos public hospitals would down tools for seemingly irreconcilable issues particularly, those connected to wages and conditions of service.

Contrary to expectations that the striking Lagos doctors would call off their strike yesterday, they however rejected the olive branch extended to them by the state government, saying, the offer was only 1.0 per cent increase in their present salary.

For there to be peaceful and credible elections in 2011, Right Monitoring Group, RMG, has urged the Federal Government to deploy soldiers to assist the police in providing security for the electorate and voting materials.

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said the commission would release a new timetable for the forthcoming elections after the National Assembly has successfully completed the second alteration of the 1999 Constitution.

FOLLOWING the nullification of the election of Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan as Governor of Delta State by the Court of Appeal, Benin, Tuesday, Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Prince Samuel Obi was, yesterday, sworn in as the acting Governor of the State.

CHIEF Great Ovadje Ogboru contested the April 14, 2007 gubernatorial elections in Delta State on the platform of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP. In this interview, he said among others that the 2007 governorship elections in Delta State was fraught with irregularities.

The week ending Saturday, November 6, 2010 was quite revealing for amateur boxing in Nigeria. It just about marked the first day, first month and first year ever, that the sport decided to take matters into its own hands.

SACKED governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday stormed Aso Rock, and met with President Gooduck Jonathan behind closed door.

However, the nullification of the 2007 Delta State Gubernatorial Election yesterday claimed its first major victim, with the cancellation of Vice President Namadi Sambo’s proposed visit to the oil rich state.

THE three-day warning strike embarked upon by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, turned bloody in Edo State yesterday, when a trigger happy mobile police officer attached to a Judge from a neighouring state, shot at the state Chairman of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE, Comrade Godwin Ehikioya, when the union leaders tried to enforce the strike directive at the Benin Airport.

Some youths organisations yesterday raised an alarm that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, purported gentleman agreement on zoning arrangement was a ploy designed by a powerful clique to turn Nigeria into a one-party state, and with intent to continue to hold on to power and perpetually oppress the people.

Though he represents the powerful and influential Urhobo population in the Senate, little was heard or known about Senator Adegho Eferakeya until now.

The Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, of Abia State University Teaching Hospital, ABSUTH, Aba, has vowed to continue the strike its members embarked upon over five months ago, saying doctors would only resume work when the state government implements the new welfare package the association agreed with it.