Comrade Issa Aremu is a Vice-President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. The labour body issued a two-week ultimatum to state governors – the ultimatum lapses at the end of this week – on the raging matter of the concerns raised by the latter about the ability of state governments to pay the N18,000 salary as enacted by the amended Minimum Wage Act, signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan on March 15, 2011. In this interview, Aremu wonders what the hue about the N18,000 is all about.

Eight African countries including Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda are currently flying African flags at the ongoing Microsoft Imagine Cup, the wouldc’s premier students technology competition holding in New York, the Unted States of America.

The Oba of Ikorodu, Alaiyeluwa Oba Salaudeen Afolabi Adekoya Oyefusi says the expansion of the 20 local government areas in Lagos to 57 local council development areas, LCDAs, has made the government closer to the people and enabled the traditional rulers to be more effective.

GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has warned the newly sworn-in chairmen of transition committees in all the twenty local government areas of the state against abuse of power and vendetta.

Speaking after the inauguration of the chairmen at June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto,Abeokuta, Amosun described their emergence as a means to “handling the onerous responsibility of taking governance to the grass root”.

The Federal Government weekend in Abuja ordered the re-opening of the Kaduna Polytechnic and directed the former Rector, Alhaji Danjuma Isa, to proceed on compulsory leave.

Chief Coach of Insurance of Benin, Rowland Ewere has state that there is no unity amongst Nigerian coaches.

The former El-Kanemi Warriors attacker made this known in interview with Sunday Vanguard Sports in Benin City stressing that referees has more unity than the gaffers.

The Torch-Light of Nigeria Football and the Leader of the Credible Football Elections Group – Barrister Iyke Leo Igbokwe has advised the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to immediately order the return of the winners of the League Boards Election – National League, Women League and Amateur League back to their duly elected duty posts.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, may have inadvertently inflicted everlasting injury on 32 senior members of the legal profession, who prior to last Thursday, basked in the euphoria of rising to the revered rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN.

Nollywood iron-lady Patience Ozokwor, popularly known as Mama G, is billed to feature in a local Malawian film titled “The Return. The film is written and directed by Rising Choreos and Theatre Company in Malawi.

Popular screen diva and a mother of one, Annie Macaulay who has been off the screen for more than two years now, has got her groove back. She now storms movie sets armed with more scripts than she has ever bargained for.

The dream of one of Nigeria’s two representatives at the ongoing TV reality show, Big Brother Amplified , Karen Igho to win the star prize of $200,0000 may not be visible after all, as she is up for eviction this weekend.

For Nigerian film makers, this is a big boost to the fight against piracy as the Association of Nollywood Core Producers(ANCOP), has signed a pact with the Uganda Federation of Movie Industry(UFMI) and the Uganda Film Publishers Guild, in the bid to eradicate the thriving business of pirating Nigerian movies in that country. The MoU […]

Fun-loving young fashion entrepreneur and daughter of Tunde Fowler who steered the affairs of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, Leila Olufunke Fowler stands like a star in the world of fashion.

Veteran Nollywood actor Olu Jacobs was given a standing ovation at the closing ceremony of the 15th Écrans Noirs Film Festival, Saturday night of June 25, 2011, in Yaoundé, Cameroun.

More funds to boast film production activities in Nigeria are underway, just as Nexim Bank and the Nigerian Film Corporation have both expressed their determination to continue to engage in sustainable policy development and implementation to ensure that the Nigerian motion picture industry secures its desired place in the local and international creative economy.