Organised labour, private employers and the Federal Government have agreed on a new national minimum wage of N18,000 per month but an announcement to this effect yesterday on the occasion of May Day was greeted with shouts of No! no! by workers.

The Nigerian literary community rose,yesterday, to pay tribute to the octogenarian writer and author of the famous novel, “One Man, One Wife”, Timothy Mofolorunso Aluko better known as T.M.Aluko,who passed onearlier in the day.

This is the story of the bad blood being generated by on-going moves to scuttle the PDP zoning arrangement which concedes the presidency to the north until 2015. The plot to kill the zoning formula is to pave the way for Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to contest next year’s presidential election. But will the plan succeed? The report traces how the defunct National Party of Nigeria, NPN, introduced zoning as a principle of political office allocation.

Shame! Shame! and Shame! were the words used by Barrister Adokie Amiesimaka on the Nigeria Football Association, NFA to describe the poor preparation of the Super Eagles for the 2010 World Cup with less than 40 days to the event.

Until he was murdered in cold blood Saturday April, 24, 2010 at his residence in Shasha, Lagos, Edo Sule Ugbagwu, The Nation newspaper’s judicial correspondent exhibited no sign of somebody awaiting the cold hands of death.