Dividends of democracy for the dead
Atan cemetery, a shouting distance from the University of Lagos is wearing a new look. And more is coming to make it a “beautiful abode of the departed,” according to Mr. Jude Aisuebeogun, Director-General of Cemetery’s management committee.
We did not suspend CJN, Salami – NJC
The National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, debunked insinuations that it has suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu and the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, from participating in its activities pending when the allegations of corruption raised against them are properly investigated to its logical conclusion.
It’s my time to shine – BiBi
Most people watching the Nigerian Idol series on TV hardly remembers that her real names are Biodun Bello.
Crimes of pastors masquerading as doctors
I KNEW Frederick Chiluba when he was chair of the Zambian Congress of Trade Unions. He came out to Nigeria for African trade unions meeting, and later was in Ghana for the same purpose. I still have the group photograph we took with Jerry Rawlings at the Accra meeting.
INEC sets for polls in 5 disputed states
IN spite of the court ruling barring the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting gubernatorial elections in five states of the federation in the forth coming election, the commission has included the states in its preparations for the governorship elections scheduled for April 16, 2011.
Dangote now Africa’s richest man
PRESIDENT of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has emerged the richest man in Africa, for the first time, with a networth of $13.8 billion, according to a report from the Forbes annual world’s billionaires ranking, released on Wednesday.
