The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says inflation rate stood at 11.8 per cent in December. It said in a statement in Abuja, that the figure was lower than the 12.8 per cent recorded in November.

Nigeria’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows fell from six billion dollars in 2009 to $2.3 billion in 2010, a new UN report says.

The strike by the lecturers at Lagos State University(LASU) has been called off on the 5th of January,2011. The students are back on campus with a lot of activities, which they thought wasn’t going to hold anymore because of the strike, like the examination, elections, etc.

“The quality of a university depends critically upon the quality of its average (human) product. The higher the quality of the average and the closer the average is to the best, the higher is the effectiveness score.”

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan in his speech to delegates at the PDP presidential primary in Abuja last Thursday before picking the party’s ticket for the April 2011 election saying his administration will ensure equity in the establishment of educational institutions, whereby every state will get a federal university has been described as a political gimmick.

As a major stakeholder in the electoral process, the Nigerian Bar Association must play a crucial role in shaping the processes and outcome of the April 2011 elections. It has a moral, social and constitutional mandate and obligation to the Nigerian people to lead the way and show the light that will lead to the conduct of free, fair and transparent elections.

I’ve been married to my wife for over six years now and we have two lovely children. My problem is her insatiable appetite for sex. My wife wants sex – and everyday.

A Lagos lawyer, Mr Udoka Ejilibe, has dragged the Federal Government and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice before to a Federal High Court, Lagos, challenging the privileges enjoyed by lawyers bestowed with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN.

IN the beginning….IT is an irony of fate that a region that, in many ways, pioneered tertiary education in Nigeria is now a subject of national ridicule due to a six-month old strike by lecturers in universities under the control of its five state governments.

THREE children of the same parents have been arrested at Ubulu-Uku, Delta State for allegedly hacking a widow to death with a saw blade for allegedly having an amorous relationship with their father.

Imo State government has dragged to court the consultant who allegedly swindled job seekers of N16 million, with a view to recovering the entire amount from the firm.

FORMER Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja has alleged that his successor, Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has placed embargo on his political campaign on the State Broadcasting Corporation.

A trial in Nigeria at the end of the month is expected to expose details of an Iranian arms smuggling operation in Africa run by the Revolutionary Guards’ clandestine arm, the al-Quds Force.

THE Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, and its consensus candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, have gone back to the drawing board to map out fresh strategies on the way forward, Vanguard can reveal.

A member of the House of Representatives from Plateau State, Mr. Bitrus Kaze, has expressed concern over the failure to bring to book identified sponsors of the recurring violence in the state.