DETECTIVES in OndoState have detained a primary school teacher, Alade Adebayo, for allegedly flogging to death a four-year-old female pupil Elizabeth Wanogha.

The request by President Goodluck Jonathan to extend the emergency rule declared in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno states in May this year by six months was, yesterday, approved by the House of Representatives. 

THERE is a paradox governments have built around education — they are spending billions of Naira on education, yet the financial issues around education are not being resolved. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, strike is only one of many matters that are dogging education.

SENATE President, David Mark, yesterday, recalled some of the actions he took with his late friend and colleague, former Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe, while they were  in the Nigeria Defence Academy, NDA, and service in the military, saying some were good while others were bad.

THE Senate, yesterday, called for stiffer punishment like life imprisonment for perpetrators of sexual assault in the country.

In what may sound like a retraction of his earlier declaration that he would only extend invitations to U-17 players after they would have graduated through the ranks, Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has said that he intends to call up a few of the U17 World Cup winning players to the Super Eagles in preparation for next year’s CHAN tournament.

The decision by the Abia State Government to to recall the non-indigenes discharged from the state’s civil service and throw the doors open for an all-inclusive hiring of new staff comes as a big relief. It was certainly not the easiest or best decision to take, even by those who initiated it.

Some organisations, public and private, are hanging perilously in the air, waiting to drop dead, and die they will, except urgent steps are taken. The idea we have here will benefit from predictions:

President Goodluck Jonathan, his Vice, Namadi Sambo and the state governors may soon be compelled to publish their bank accounts, including foreign bank accounts.

Top officials have revealed that Golden Eaglets coach Manu Garba will be elevated to lead the country’s U20 team, the Flying Eagles.

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The late Professor Festus Iyayi simply called Festus by his contemporaries was killed by a car in the convoy of the Kogi state government last week. Across the labour movement, news of his death spread like wild fire: Iyayi, who was president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in1986 is no more. For those of us who reported his activities as ASUU president, we knew that the labour movement has lost a committed comrade. He led ASUU to confront the military government on issues affecting the university system.

ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s power sector will soon publish names of workers of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, sacked without being paid their severance benefits by the Federal Government.

The national leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, summoned erstwhile national secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, to appear before the Alhaji Umaru Dikko-led Disciplinary Committee next Wednesday.

The derailment of last Tuesday’s plans by President Goodluck Jonathan to lay the 2014 budget proposals before the National Assembly was set in deep intrigues