THE Edo State Government, yesterday, ordered striking members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, in the state to go back to work by Friday or be sacked.

By Kolade Larewaju ABEOKUTA – A student of the Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED , Jagun, Ijebu-Ode, identified as Olawale Musiliu Lasisi, was allegedly shot dead by policemen said to be hunting for some suspected cult members.  Two other students were also said to have been shot in the process. The incident was said […]

ONDO State Government and the State Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday exchanged words over alleged incitement of the state workers during the recent strike over the implementation of the N18.000 new minimum wage.

Director-General, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Arumna Oteh, has rated Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, high on human and infrastructural development.

Bad governance over several years has done so much damage to education that the country is no longer reckoned with worldwide in knowledge acquisition, as was in the past.

Former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav has described the purported investigation of Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, on the allegations by Centre for Rule of Law as a ploy by corrupt politicians to intimidate the EFCC.

It was another time to speak to truth, and to set an agenda for the newly constituted government of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, penultimate week, when renowned cultural icon

The Lagos State Government has established a micro credit fund for artisans with the aim of alleviating poverty in the state.

Speaking at a one-day sensitisation workshop on Ways of Accessing Lagos State Micro-Credit by Cooperatives organised by the Lagos State Microfinance Institution, LASMI, the state’s Deputy Governor, Mrs Adejoke Orelope- Adefulire, said the fund, which would be accessible to members of cooperative societies, was in fulfillment of the governor’s promise to support cooperative societies in the state.

AFTER a hiatus of about two years or so, I travelled by road from Ilorin to Abuja last weekend, in the company of my friend, Nurudeen Abdulrahim.

IN torrents, mixed reactions yesterday continued to trail President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal to initiate a bill for a single tenure for president and governors in the country beginning from 2015.
Although, President Jonathan said he would not be a beneficiary, the proposal drew opponents and supporters in equal measure from all parts of the country.

A coalition of over 60 Civil Society Organisations under the auspices of CSO Health Watch, yesterday, raised alarm that Nigeria might lose the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFTAM) following alleged misappropriation of the grants by Nigeria’s Country Coordinating Mechanism, CCM, which oversees and manages the grant.

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MARITIME lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Mr Olisa Agbakoba has decried the neglect of the N7trillion Cabotage trade, calling for a review and full implementation of the Cabotage law to the benefit of the economy.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called on the 7thNational Assembly “not to bleed the economy.”

The Central Bank would soon review upward the limit on banks’ autonomous foreign exchange sales to bureaux de change (BDC).