Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN, has revealed the genesis of Nigeria’s problems and the basis upon which she got her independence.

Raining and rainy are derived from rain. You can say either ‘It’s raining’ or ‘It’s rainy’. Raining is ‘water is coming down from the clouds’. Rainy is an adjective. The weather is rainy when it rains. A rainy period of time is when it rains a lot. The choice of either raining or rainy depends on context. The question is ‘Which is better according to context?’ Note that raining is used in the idiom ‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ (meaning it is raining very hard) and rainy in ‘Save (something) for a rainy day’ (meaning ‘to save something, especially money for a time when you will need it’).

The appointment of the Recognised Security Organisations (RSO) by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to prepare Port Security Plans and Assessment is currently causing ripples in the maritime industry over service charge.

The Bank of Industry (BoI) is to provide funding support for artisans from Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and Vocational Skills training centers under the Federal Government’s National Industrial Skills Development Programme, NISDP, said Professor Longman Sambo Wapmuk, Director General of ITF.

THE dynamics of political engineering in Nigeria, and indeed elsewhere in the world, encapsulate the views of skeptics, cynics and enthusiasts, which when genuinely analysed, could draw a line of demarcation between real statesmen and students of Kakistocracy, who thrive on opportunism and tokenism.

By Godwin Oghre Sapele—A beneficiary of the Federal Government’s amnesty programme, who was among those sent to Cyprus to study in 2011, Tivere Ben Tobi Ogbakpah, has been on hunger strike in Warri, Delta State, in the past one week. He was returned to the country in 2012, following the non-accreditation of the course in […]

In this manner of conceptualizing events, history could be said to be unrestricted by space and time.’ The authors further opine that ‘history and historical events are not amorphous or shapeless occurrences. On the contrary, historical events and processes possess uniqueness which marks them as much the product of the past and of particular places, as they are sufficiently differentiated from their antecedents. Such uniqueness of history provides both the basis for a break from either the past or from events of other places as well as the basis of a completely new future history.

STUDENTS from Troika School, Lekki, Zamani College, Kaduna, Alofos Foundation, Surulere and Ilado Community Junior High School, Ikoyi will represent Nigeria at the world Olympia holding in Jakarta, Indonesia in November 2013.

TO build a healthy environment and help meet item 7 of the MDGs by 2015, a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Covenant University (CU), Ota, Ogun State, Dr David Olukanni and his team have come up with an optimized pilot-scale wastewater treatment system, a cost-effective waste management and treatment process for developing nations.

The year 1999 will remain a landmark year in the history of Nigeria. Most of us remember it as the year the military returned government for the second time after almost 16 years since the coup of 1983 which brought an end to the Second Republic. The Third Republic was aborted in 1993 when the Presidential election was annulled after the June 12, 1993 elections.

The Administrator,Bethlehem Girls College, Rev. Sister Felicitas Osinde has said that girls must be spiritually, physically, emotionally and intellectually empowered to appreciate the dignity of womanhood. Osinde said this last weekend at the Eucharistic Mass to celebrate the one year anniversary of the school.

AGGRIEVED retirees of the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, in Warri and Lagos have protested non-payment of their 2006/2007 retirement benefits . The protest which took place recently, crippled ports operations in Lagos and Warri, where the retirees barricaded the gates to the ports, lamenting that they had been suffering since retirement in 2006.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, described as mischievous and petty, the criticism by the state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over plans by the state government to sell the Edo House in Lagos.

Three persons were, yesterday, brought before a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, by the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly defrauding one Miss Lora Marire of N65.4 million, by falsely stating that the money would be used for the registration of her company as contractor with Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA.

The Plateau State government has announced the death of the former governor of old Plateau State and founding chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Solomon Daushep Lar, at the age of 80.