It was a moment of joy and honour for the J. D. Okhai Ojeikeres and the Nigerian art community when Ojeikere received the 2011 Chobi Mela VI Lifetime Achievement Awards in a colourful ceremony held in far away Bangladesh. With this award, Pa J. D. Okhai Ojeikere becomes the first Nigerian to receive the prestigious award for his outstanding contributions to photography and the development of the society.

UMBRELLA bodies for workers in the nation’s Power sector; the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, and its Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, counterpart have petitioned the Presidency, rejecting the planned winding-up of PHCN, describing the moves as illegal, unconstitutional and unacceptable.

In order to keep this heart-breaking saga fresh in the minds of Nigerians so as to ensure that justice is done at the end, we wrote the National Judicial Council, NJC through its Deputy Chairman, on March 11, 2011 to acknowledge the receipt of two letters dated March 2, 2011, and forwarded to us by the Council, and to insist on our earlier call for the matters not to be swept under the carpet

The HEWS(Health,Education,Work and Shelter)Foundation is running a free cleft lip/palate surgery mission for at least 30 patients at the University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti from March 28, 2011 to April 1, 2011.

Managing the process of electoral succession through free, fair and transparent elections is a serious political, organisational, supervisory, security and legal challenge. In arriving at free and fair elections, various stakeholders play various roles

A suit challenging the power of the President of the Customary Court of Appeal, Abuja to adjudicate over a civil matter, recently became a subject of argument before an Abuja High Court, as two senior members of the Bar, who appeared before the High Court on the fateful day argued extensively.

Justice Dolapo Akinsayna (rtd), turned 70, last month, five years after she took a bow from the bench of Lagos State judiciary. She is mostly remembered for reasoned judgement that stripped Chief Ernest Shonekan-led interim national government of its legitimacy in 1993

At last, the Commonwealth Foundation, organisers of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the internationally recognised platform for promoting ground-breaking works of literature from across the globe, last week announced the regional prize winners from the four regions of the Commonwealth with works by Nigerian writers conspicuously missing from the list.

CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Information, Senator Ayogu Eze, has embarked on a house-to-house re-election campaign in all the wards of the six local government areas in Enugu North senatorial district to solicit the support of the electorate for his second term bid.

Newly established Adeleke University, Ede, Osun State, has come into existence with the aim of educating the total person, which requires self-freedom achieved through development of self-reliance and independent thinking, sharpening of the scientific, creative and critical capabilities of the individuals to become economically independent.