PRESIDENT of the West Africa Bar Association, WABA, Mr. Femi Falana, has called on Nigerians to take advantage of the on-going debate on the jumbo pay for members of the National Assembly to critically examine the total cost of governance in the country.

STATE universities in the South East have been shut since July. Re-opening them is not a priority. The five South East governors have jointly agreed that thousands of students in these universities should be at home, as they tango with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over pay and the low level of infrastructure in the schools.

HUMAN rights activist and chieftain of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Mr. Jezie Ekejiuba, has dragged Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State to court over what he called continued use of appointed caretaker committees to run the 21 local government areas of the state.

TWENTY-FOUR hours after Shiloh 2010, the General Overseer of the Living Faith Ministries, a.k.a. Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo on Monday night had the onerous responsibility of flagging off the 13th Holy Ghost Congress, a spiritual retreat of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG.

THE National Judicial Council, NJC, has initiated an inquiry to establish the facts behind the suit filed by the State Chairman, Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, in Ebonyi State, Hon. Cyril Obazi, over the timely amendment of the Electoral Act 2006 by the State House of Assembly some days to the last local government election conducted in the state.

BASTARD! That is perhaps the most insulting word you can use for a Nigerian. It is therefore not surprising that retired General Olufemi Olutoye is at war with some of his kinsmen just as former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayoshe is with ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Nigeria’s total debt stock as at the third quarter of the year is put at $32.5 billion, according to a review of Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, carried out by the Centre for Social Justice.

While the menace of advanced fee fraud popularly known as 419 and spam mails remain a challenge to governments of the world, latest Microsoft’s Security Intelligence report, Volume 9, has revealed that advance fee fraud mails accounted for 8.6 percent of the spam messages blocked by Microsoft’s Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) in the second quarter of 2010 alone.

A total of 11 African countries showed a greater than 50 per cent reduction in either confirmed malaria cases or malaria admissions and deaths over the past decade, a new World Malaria Report has revealed .

The Chairman of the Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, yesterday, welcomed the Federal High Court judgment recognising his election, even as he put the burden of reconciliation on aggrieved party members who he tasked to seize opportunity of the judgment to come on board.