LET us start with a frank admission: degrees awarded by the Lagos State University, LASU, are anything but respected. Employers recruit graduates of this university, like their counterparts from other state-owned universities in Nigeria, if there are no candidates with certificates from first generation universities or from other federal universities or from private universities like Covenant, Babcock and Madonna. A doctoral degree from LASU is unlikely to earn a person an academic position at the neighbouring University of Lagos, UNILAG. This is how much diplomas from state universities in Nigeria are discriminated against.

The two most eligible bachelors in Nigeria ‘musicdom’ Peter and Paul Okoye are now married men. Ghanaian Actor and close friend Majid Micheal knows there’ll be pressure being married and remaining a sex symbol in showbiz. He takes time out to drop some words of advice on facebook for newly wed Paul Okoye.

FOR the kidnap and murder of a one and half-year-old infant an Akure High Court, weekend, sentenced three men to death by hanging.

They are Olusegun Obaro, Jonah Lase and Theophilus Friday.

Lagos State government said it has in the last five years spent over N49 billion on Lagos State University, LASU, to upgrade infrastructure and improve the state of the university.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan, as the father of the nation and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, not to be afraid to visit any part of the country for whatever reasons.

Nigeria’s Flamingoes top its group by beating Mexico 3 – 0 at the Under 17 Women’s World Cup on going at Estadio Nacional on March 23, 2014 in San Jose, Costa Rica.

The Oyo State Police command has arrested seven suspects in connection with discovery of skulls in an abandoned building at Soka area of Ibadan last Saturday.

THE Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has decried what he described as alleged marginalisation of Lagos indigenes in running of the affairs of the state.

The United Nations has published the Joint Letter of Concern sent to the government of President Goodluck Jonathan in which they expressed concerns that “access to electricity (and regularity of supply) is a significant problem in Nigeria,” and raised eight questions for the government to answer within 60 days.

STRONG indications emerged weekend that the immediate past Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah may have been saddled with the responsibility of coordinating all the groups presently positioning themselves to campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan=s re-election in 2015.

No fewer than 90 persons were killed, weekend, in separate incidents in Benue and Borno States.
In Benue, 55 persons were killed, yesterday, afternoon in one of the bloodiest clashes between Tiv youths and suspected Fulani mercenaries at Gbajimba, the headquarters of Guma Local Government Area of the state, while 35 persons died when Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) suspected to have been planted by Boko Haram terrorists exploded at a market square in Ngurosoye village of Bama council area of Borno State.

WITH 13 reports and documents of past constitutional amendment exercises in their kitty, the 492 delegates to the on-going National Conference are ready for business as they resume today.

With the nation’s external reserves falling below its lowest level in eighteen months, economic experts are divided over the policy of using the reserves to defend the naira.

SATURDAY March 22 passed away quietly. It was the 21st United Nations World Water Day with its theme, Water and Energy, capturing most of the travails of living in Nigeria where the celebration with rehashed speeches, indicating poignantly the disregard for the combined development water and energy provide.

SOUTH EAST Governors Forum has condemned the attack, last week, in Imo State on the convoy of the Senate President, Senator David Mark, describing same as a wicked act.