Nelson Mandela “drew his last breath and just rested”, his ex-wife Winnie said Thursday in her first public comments on his death.

Prince Adesegun Olusola Ogunlewe, former Lagos State Head of Service, HoS, in this concluding part of his with Olasunkanmi Akoni,  told Labour Vanguard that the 14 weeks old strike by Doctors in the state was his most trying moment. The first part of the interview has earlier been published.  Excerpts. Major reforms introduced into the […]

Irked by the rising spate of graduate unemploy-ment in the country, Chief Lecturer at the Department of Languages, Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos, Mr. Benjamin Osasona, has blamed lack of English language proficiency as one of the major factors contributing to graduate unemployment in the country.

Super Eagles midfielder John Mikel Obi has said that he expects tougher opposition from Iran and Bosnia than Argentina in the first round of Brazil 2014. He, however, said he is confident the Super Eagles will reach the knockout stage of the World Cup.

About seventeen African countries including Senegal, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Angola, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Mauritius, South Africa, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Morocco are to benefit from Student Advantage programme just launched by the software giant Microsoft.

A-List Nollywood actress, Rita Dominic and prolific producer, Charles Novia, are currently engaging in a serious war of words on Twitter over comments the latter made. Known for his scathing criticism of celebrities, Charles Novia had recently released a list of his top five actresses in Nigeria for the year 2013 and on the list, he placed Rita Dominic as number five.

As well as seeing a number of somewhat shocking results that will see the race for the title remain wide open for the foreseeable future, a number of Premier League marksman also further enhanced their claims to win the coveted Golden Boot award – handed to the league’s top scorer at the end of every season.

Campuses of most Nigerian universities are still under lock and key as members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, who have been on strike for six months, have, again, defied the ultimatum given to them by the Federal Government to resume academic activities on December 9 or be sacked, vowing to continue with the strike till government assents to their demands.

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to resign “because Obasanjo has clearly spoken the minds of all Nigerian and it is clear that Nigerians have lost faith in this administration.”

Ever since he was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives against the desire of the top hierarchy of his party, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal had almost regularly been a deviant from the culture and customs of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Though there were times when he flowed along like when he made his hardline supporters in the House to concede the leadership of the House to Mrs. Mulikat Adeola-Akande and the times he had to beat PDP House members to aadjust their positions on the budget of the Federal Government.

ALHAJI Yerima Shetima is the national president of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum. In this interview, Shetima maintains that there is division in the north owing to divergent interests in the region. On the proposed national conference, Shetima posits that there should be no no-go areas if the conference is to succeed.

Luiz Felipe Scolari (Brazil): “I am satisfied with the draw. But we shall be paying close attention to the opening phase. That should give us an incentive. I am not concerned with the second phase. Mexico is a classic going way back, I am happy with the match sequence.

Ex-international Yisa Sofoluwe has tipped the Super Eagles and Argentina to progress to the second round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

1 Base Ammunition Depot of the Nigerian Army, Gusau, said it had repatriated 226 foreign donkeys to Niger Republic.

The PDP in Niger on Thursday passed a vote of confidence on Gov. Babangida Aliyu for not defecting with other five governors to the All Progressives Congress (APC).