I was in Ilorin last weekend, to present a paper at a retreat organised by the Kwara State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Most of my readers might recall that I have been a most scathing critic of Nigeria’s ruling party,over the past fifteen years.

Bayelsa State Commissioner for Trade and Investment, Barrister Kamela Okara, in this interview says the state hopes to attract over $1 billion investment through its first investment forum, holding next week.

LAGOS—THE bloated body of a passenger who drowned after a boat capsized Tuesday at Coconut Island, Lagos, was yesterday recovered.

National Union of Printing, Publishing and Paper Products Workers, NUPPPPROW, Vanguard Media Limited chapter, has elected new officials to run its affairs for the next three years.

LAGOS—NATIONAL chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun yesterday took a swipe at the alleged impunity being perpetrated by state governments under the All Progressives Congress, APC, in their respective states.

BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI & IKENNA ASOMBA LAGOS—There were indications yesterday, that the protracted strike by Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian University, SSANU would end soon as the management of the institution and striking unions have brokered peace. The three main issues that […]

GOING by the lessons of history, it is clear that the cane reserved for Iyale (the first wife) shall someday be used on Iyawo (the new wife).

Chief Mike Ozekhome, a Federal Government delegate stunned the conference when he stated that the National Assembly had no business with the enactment of constitutions.

Israeli air strikes on two houses in the southern Gaza Strip killed seven people on Thursday, medics said, all of them women and children.

Creation of states has served very useful purposes. It has given people a sense of ownership of their slice of the Nigerian political commonwealth. It has benefited both the Majority and Minority groups. The further clamour for more states is merely a sign that smaller Minority groups in some states which have not found political and economic fulfillment want to have something of their own.

NO fewer than 4,000 Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, pensioners across the country have lamented the non-payment of their four months pension arrears and gratuities estimated at N19 billion by Federal Government.

Help seems to be on the way for the basic education sector of over 60 developing countries as the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Replenishment Conference, on June 26, in Brussels, Belgium, received new pledges of more than US$28.5 billion from donor and recipient countries.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, has advised Christians in Osun State to disregard the false information being circulated by PDP agents in some churches that the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has instructed Christians in the state to vote for a Christian candidate in next month’s governorship election.

IBADAN—EKITI State Governor–elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has advised former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former senators in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to either align with the on-going reconciliatory moves in the party or be shown the way out.

YOUTHS of Burutu, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, have endorsed Chief Ebikeme Clark as chairman of the council in the forthcoming local government elections slated for October 25.