Saddened by the current trend where youths no longer concentrate on the indepth acquisition of skills, but material gains to be derived, Dr. Ridwan Adeyemi, a lecturer at the Department of Public Relations and Advertising, Adebola Adegunwa School of Communication, Lagos State University, last Thursday, advised the students, who aim to end up in the media industry after school, not to see material gains as priority.

ORGANISED labour in the nation’s hospitality industry, has accused the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, NTDC, of plot to extort workers in the sector under the guise of biometric registration, threatening to shut down the industry should the NTDC goes ahead with the plan.

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After three years of being appointed the Rector, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, the institution has witnessed series of academic and infrastructural development under the leadership of Dr. Margaret Ladipo. As part of efforts to mark these giant strides, Ladipo looks back at what her administration has achieved, even as she called on government for more grants to fund research, security and further developmental projects.

Two shareholders of Newswatch Communications Limited, Messrs Nuhu Wada Aruwa and Prof. Jibril Aminu, have asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to stop Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, from publishing or selling any daily newspaper with the name “Newswatch,” pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

It could only happen in Port Harcourt, the city now referred as the World Book Capital. Here, literature has become so common that even wedding feats are now turned into literary festivals, thanks to the Garden city Literary Festivals, and the Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, Rivers state branch.