INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation, ILO, has called on world leaders to step up the fight against child labour, saying irrespective of noticeable reduction in recent time, it is still a very large number.

The Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST, Wednesday, said it intercepted 45,571 items and scam letters with counterfeit financial instruments worth N13.74 billion in 2012.

CHIEF Solomon Lar who died on Wednesday at 80, was at the point of his demise one of THE longest enduring political faces in the country. He was evidently one of a handful of still active politicians who started jostling from the colonial era. Typical of the exhibitionism that characterised politics in the first republic, Lar till his death, was remembered for his showmanship on the political platform as regularly demonstrated by his all present white handkerchief.

‘IN the last two and a half years or thereabout, we’ve been talking about his funeral. He would say ‘Major, Ponsah (a close relation), where are you going to bury me?’ We tried to discourage him from such statements but he would insist saying ‘let’s face the reality of life.’”

As the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, enters the fourth month, there are strong indications that the Federal Government has commenced the implementation of the “No Work, No Pay” rule.