THERE are strong indications that the proposed white wedding of pint size- star actor, Chinedu Ikedieze(MFR) popularly known as Aki with his heartthrob, Nneoma Hope Nwajah, which was originally scheduled to hold on Saturday, December 10, will now come up tomorrow, Friday, December 9.

The court yard of the Lagos Motor Boat Club, Awolowo Road Ikoyi was filled to the brim as friends, colleagues, kinsmen, students and what could be described as the who is who in the literary community joined Bookraft on Tuesday at a book party, to celebrate the life and career of Professor John Pepper Clark- Bekederemo.

GOVERNOR Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State stole the show at the 27th convocation ceremony of Yaba College of Technology as traditional dancers displayed magnificently to the applause of the massive audience as he was conferred with honorary fellowship of the college.

LAST week, the wind of nation-wide opposition to an unpopular agenda finally exposed the ugly hind place of Nigeria’s political (economic) fowl, when Nigeria’s Senate named beneficiaries of the much-vaunted fuel subsidies.

THE National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the federal government start implementing the 26 percent budgetary allocation to education as recommended by UNESCO which Nigeria is a signatory.

Ahead of Adamawa State gubernatorial elections coming up in January, the state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been plunged into crisis following the resignation of the former Speaker of the state House of Assembly.

REMEMBER soul crooners, Styl-Plus who have been away from the mainstream music world for almost two years now? They are staging a comeback during this Yuletide season with their first single titled “Alive.”

FROM January next year,organizations and employers who have not been complying with the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, will find it rough as the National Pension Commission, PenCom, has vowed to begin full application of enabling law to force employers to remit employees contributions to their Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs.

Hours after northern leaders ended their two-day parley in Kaduna on how to ensure that peace reigns in the north, the city was thrown into mourning yesterday, following an explosion which killed at least eight persons including a pregnant woman and her two children and injuring several others.

Former Nigeria skipper Nwankwo Kanu has said he was not sure that Nigerians have forgiven Yakubu Aiyegbeni for the bizare miss at the 2010 World Cup.

THE National Universities Commission, NUC, facts-finding team on the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, FUPRE, Effurun, Delta State, led by Prof Alhassan Bichi has found out that despite all the money pumped into the institution by the Federal Government, none of its academic programmes could be accredited.

DESPITE her seemingly controversial nature as a screen diva, Tonto Dike still has the milk of human kindness flowing in her veins. She has concluded plans to fete about 100 most brilliant students from both private and public schools in Lagos.

THE on-going strike of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities across the country has disrupted examinations of some doctoral students of the University of Ibadan.

STAKEHOLDERS in the nation’s labour industry gathered in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital recently to seek ways of minimizing industrial unrest in workplaces and the Nigeria’s national life.

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, yesterday, called for the employment of well- trained persons in the drafting of the country’s laws, regretting that some laws were not properly harmonised.