EXTENSION of resumption date of public and private primary and secondary schools in the country which would be used as centres for registration of voters by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been met with mixed reactions from parents and stakeholders.

‘HURRAY’ is always what it is when leadership offers example. And Dora Akinyuli need not be told that the story of NAFDAC under her was the story of hurray; it was visionary and exemplary leadership. She was the face of NAFDAC. And almost all the staff there identified with that face. The result was success.

FOR the families of the late acclaimed winner of the June12, 1993 election; Bashorun Moshood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, these may not be the best of times.

All is set for the Guild of Editors, NGE, biennial convention scheduled for January 15, 2011, in Lagos.
In a statement yesterday in Abuja by the Guild’ s General Secretary, John Ndukauba, about 300 editors from all over the country would be expected to participate.

PRESIDENTIAL aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were yesterday, cleared after being screened by the Ambassador Aminu Wali led Presidential Screening Committee.

UNLESS the Lagos Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, receives additional 5,000 Direct Data Capturing, DDC, machines from the national headquarters before Friday, the exercise might run into a hitch in Lagos.

The National Assembly, yesterday, insisted on going on with its appeal pending before the Court of Appeal, Lagos to its logical conclusion, despite the signing of the amended Constitution into law by President Goodluck Jonathan.

THE Federal Government is today, in Abuja, meeting with leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC’s counterparts, to brief them on the efforts by government towards the implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage.

Officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, are in a fix as to how the huge sum of money collected and paid into the organisation’s account found its way into various other accounts for which a ridiculous interest is being paid.

“They have just killed my friend, they have killed my friend, Onochie,” Peterside cried from his house in South Africa.
Okafor was found dead, hanging in his house at Little Elm in Texas Thursday.