Minister of State for Education, Dr. Kenneth Gbagi, has attributed the dismal state of education in Nigeria to successive governments’ lip service and negligence.

CURRENT electric power generation is to be boosted with the completion of the Gurara Hydro Power Plant, which is now ready for inauguration.

Former Managing Director of Afribank Plc, Sebastian Adigwe, alongside six others charged to court for financial impropriety by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to vary the bail conditions the judge granted them.

ANAMBRA is a traumatised state. It has been so from the times of the military locusts which constantly devoured its resources. The departure of the military in the country restored some measure of stability and sanity in many states, but not Anambra.

TWELVE weeks after doctors employed by the Lagos State government embarked on strike to press home demand for payment of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, CONMESS, the state government finally consented to the doctors’ demands as Governor Babatunde Fashola approved 75 per cent salary increase for the aggrieved medical personnel.

The legal battle to void the litany of amendments recently made to the 1999 constitution following the refusal of the National Assembly to get presidential endorsement to the document yesterday shifted venue from the high court level to the Court of Appeal for definite pronouncement.

Two of the 11 members of the House of Representatives who were suspended for unruly behaviour, Messrs Ehioge-West Idahosa and Gbenga Onigbogi, were recalled to the House yesterday.

TRADITIONAL Rulers in Enugu State have condemned the roles being played by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, in the current crisis rocking the party in the state.

Former Senate President, Dr. Ken Nnamani, yesterday in Lagos, indicted his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led Federal Government over the cloud of uncertainty pervading preparations for the 2011 polls.

THE bloody clash that greeted the rally organized by opponents of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala in Ogbomoso, his hometown, did not come as a surprise to many observers. It will not be difficult for anybody closely following political developments in Oyo State to conclude that more work has to be done towards a violence-free election come 2011.

THE Jonathan\Sambo Campaign Organisation said yesterday in Lagos that it was sure of clinching the 2011 presidential ticket of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the primaries.

NEWSPAPER headlines have blazoned threats from the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress to shut down Nigeria today with a warning strike over a new national minimum wage.

With a flurry of endorsements by the Ime-Obi (Inner Caucus), Ohanaeze General Assembly, Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC and Aka-Ikenga, the Amb. Raph Uwechue-led National Executive Committee of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, will enjoy a two-year term extension.

ARMED policemen yesterday averted what could have resulted into a bloody clash between factional leaders of the Labour Party in Edo State and their supporters, when a faction of the party led by a former chairman of Oredo Local Government Council of the state, Mr Sam Omede, stormed the state secretariat of the party calling for the removal of the embattled state chairman, Dr John Ogbeide

THE Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities, FNDIC, yesterday, called on government and its agencies to ward off a repeat of the gory Warri-Ijaw/Itsekiri bloodbath of 1997 and 2003 by addressing the remote causes of the crisis, which are still looming large even as the 2011 general elections draw near.