LAGOS—The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, has said that it would on Saturday take definite position over the alleged refusal of 18 state governments to implement the Teachers Salary Structure, TSS, by the end of January.

To reduce the incidence of forgery, the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, CPN has approved the design of a new certificate with security features unscripted on it.

LAGOS— The National Lottery Regulatory Commission has filed an appeal against a Federal High Court, Lagos judgment which held that the NLRC had no right to issue licences in spite of the Lottery Act.

Efforts by Lagos State Attorney-General, Mr. Ade Ipaye, to formally arraign suspected killers of Cynthia Osokogu allegedly killed by her Facebook friends in a hotel in Festac, Lagos, hit brick walls, yesterday, as the court adjourned their arraignment at the request of the accused persons’ lawyer.

In the past four months, there has been unusual attention and comments in the media about frequency spectrum sales and allocations by the telecom regulatory body, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. The allegations of underhand frequency dealings were made topical by one of the national dailies which devoted its front pages to report the matter.

DOUBLE whammy is what the English will call it. But for Fela, its ‘c-o-n-f-u-s-i-o-n breaki boni’ because ‘deadi bodi geti aksident’ as he put it in his album, ‘Confusion Break Bone’.

TWO people narrowly escaped death, yesterday, in Lagos, during an auto crash involving a tricycle popularly called Keke Marwa and a commercial bus with number plate Lagos YA 525 MUS.

GENERAL Dwight Eisenhower was quoted as saying that “to knock people over the head is assault, not leadership”. Similarly, to beat up people, steal their goods and extort money from them is criminality, not law enforcement.

The 2013 Africa Cup of Nations semi final clash between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Eagles of Mali has elicited a lot of interest among Nigerian football fraternity.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday charged the Super Eagles to go ahead and win all the remaining matches and bring home the cup.In a call to the Eagles in South Africa, President Jonathan said Nigerians were behind them and expect that they (Eagles) will make Nigerians happy and proud.