As technical colleges churn out graduates every year, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has allayed fears of graduates about jobs saying that plans are available to ensure they are self-employed

Our print, electronic and social media have in the past couple of days been heavily inundated with disputation concerning recent proceedings at the National Assembly. What can immediately be said without equivocation is that the Senate did not vote to vary the age of marriage nor did it legitimize child marriage. Rather, what appears to have angered many Nigerians arose from a consideration by Senate, of the ‘age for renunciation of citizenship’, having regard to the provisions of section 29 of the constitution of the Federation of Nigeria, 1999 (hereafter, ‘the Constitution’).

FEDERATION of Informal Workers of Nigeria, FIWON, has faulted the decision by the Senate to make leaders of the National Assembly receive life pension, saying it shows the level of insensitivity of the senators to the mood of the nation.

The Federal Government’s Investment Climate Reforms programme has recorded a major boost as the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment has concluded plans to ensure that Nigerians in diaspora or foreigners planning to register their businesses in Nigeria can do so online from any part of the world within the next two months.

IMPORTERS and their agents are running away from scanning of their consignments following insistence that such scanned cargoes be subjected to 100 per cent examination at Tin-can Island Container Terminal(TICT).

A WEEK can be a very long time in politics. This is even truer within the pressure cooker ambience of Nigerian politics. Two events this week, underline the central place of power and the incredible struggle to retain it, by the denizens of the PDP.

THE National Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, has said no fewer than 500,000 workers have keyed into the Employees Compensation Scheme, ECS. It has also paid over N200 million employees that were injured at workplaces since the commencement of ECS.

Uganda’s Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has won the Kwani? Manuscript Project, a new literary prize for unpublished fiction by African writers and will receive the winning prize of 300,000 Kenyan Shillings (equivalent $3500) for her novel The Kintu Saga.

As part of its determination to encourage academic excellence, the management of Loral International Schools, Lagos, has awarded a six-year scholarship to two of her finest primary six pupils.

Like we argued earlier, the strict rule was developed to ensure “only guilty persons are convicted by the State”. Therefore, it is the end goal of a proceeding that should ordinarily determine the standard of proof to be applied. The ‘strict rule’ ought only to apply where the end goal of a proceeding seeks conviction of a citizen by the State and not where the end goal is a pursuit of compensatory damages, injunctive/restorative reliefs, declarations, restitutive orders etc; such as are often sought in civil and election petition proceedings respectively.

Another first has been recorded in the history of sports sponsorship and promotions in Nigeria as Mobil Producing Nigeria, Operator of the NNPC/MPN Joint Venture finalises plans to camp and train 165 students in the modern technics and styles of track and field.

Project Manager, 9ja Knowledge Show, Mr John Okri has reiterated its commitment to change orientation of the nation’s teaming youth through the Global Read Entertainment competitions.

A 47-year-old businessman, Alhaji Saidu Isa (aka Maiturari) was Wednesday arraigned before a Lagos magistrate’s court for allegedly stealing N15.9 million.

The Lagos State Police Command, Tuesday, said it had rescued two persons, a five-year-old boy and a woman, who were kidnapped last Thursday and Friday, respectively.

ABUJA—THREE members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who recently withdrew their suit seeking to stop the party’s national convention, said Wednesday, that they went to court to strengthen the party. They made this revelation at a meeting with the Governor Seriake Dickson-led National Reconciliation Committee in Abuja, according a statement by the media aide to […]