By VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG & KINGSLEY OMONOBIAs Nigerian workers join the rest of the world to mark the May Day today, labour leaders in the country, yesterday, said insecurity, poverty and unemployment had been the greatest challenges that confronted the Nigerian worker in the last one year.   This came as fear of insecurity may mar workers’ rally in Abuja, […]

The Consensus Committee of the National Conference has approved an additional state for the South East geopolitical zone.

AMIDST sprays of teargas and hot water, students and staff of polytechnics and Colleges of Education held their ground, protesting at the front of the National Assembly in Abuja on Tuesday.

SOUTHERN delegates are not taking lightly to the clamour of the North through a document circulated to northern delegates that onshore/offshore dichotomy should be applied and derivation should be reduced to five per cent for oil resources explored onshore

After the spate of mayhems committed by insurgents masquerading as Fulani herdsmen in the South West, North Central and isolated communities in the Niger Delta, an expanded security meeting of the federal and state governments has resolved it is time to end the madness. Part of the plan, we hear, is to persuade the cattle Fulani to exit their nomadic lifestyle and embrace the ranching option, a policy an official inappropriately called “domestication”.

Mr Dele Adesina SAN is former general secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association NBA. An active Bar man, he has participated in various NBA activities including its crisis period . In this interview he spoke on the role of the bar in the society, his expectation from the on-going national conference on federalism and the justice sector.

Today, Nigerian workers join millions of workers all over the world except the United States of America to mark 128th anniversary of May Day. This special edition of Labour Vanguard takes a look at the relationship between the average worker and the trade union. What are the challenges for the average worker? It’s a special May Day Edition. Only in Vanguard.

A NIGERIAN Muslim girl reportedly made a record which reserved a place for her among the World’s 50 Smartest teenagers. Saheela Ibraheem, only 16, made the headlines earlier last year when she was accepted into Harvard University, making her one of the youngest students ever to attend that school as a rising talent.

Henceforth, any person found with illegal guns and other dangerous weapons in Lagos Island Local Government Area would be shot on sight.

African ministers of trade and experts in trade and regional integration have agreed to boycott planned signing of Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA, with European Union. The signing of the agreement is scheduled for October 1, 2014.