CALL it a season of impeachments and you may not be wrong. Why? A gale of impeachment is sweeping the polity and has left many elected officers licking their wounds and a host of others on the verge of being swept out of their plum positions for serious and flimsy reasons.

The authority of the University of Lagos, has announced automatic employment for First Class degree graduands in the university.

Delivering his convocation speech at the second phase of the 2014 graduation ceremony at the Multipurpose Hall, Vice Chancellor, Professor Rahamon Ade Bello Rahamon said: “The governing Council of the university, for the promotion of excellence in the university, has approved that commencing from this year, the two best graduating students, with CGPA not less than 4.00 in each of our programmes, be automatically employed as Graduate Assistants.”

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had said that he will handover a Nigeria that is free of terrorists to President-elect Gen Mohammadu Buhari come May 29th.

Human rights activists, yesterday, called on the President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), who reportedly barred African Independent Television, AIT, from covering his activities, to handle the matter of hate campaign as required by the law.

ABUJA—The Federal Government, yesterday, said it would pay oil marketers N156 billion, out of the about N256 billion the marketers claimed they are being owed.

Parents of the abducted schoolgirls from Chibok community in Borno State, yesterday, reacted angrily to the announcement by the army that none of the abducted girls was among the 293 females rescued on Tuesday from Sambisa Forest by the troops.

Going by the verdict of the Renaissance Capital, RENCAP, and using an adjusted base year to calculate Nigeria’s current year’s GDP, Nigeria’s adjusted net GDP would stand at 405 billion dollars that of South Africa would trail behind at 370 billion US dollars. Other encouraging highlights of the RENCAP African report with respect to Nigeria’s macro economy include the following; a positive debt budget and current account ratios, as well as a general improvement in Nigeria’s overall financial markets’ aggregates.

Twelve-year-old Primary Six pupil, Tijani Boluwatife of Araromi Primary School, Orile Agege, and Sonoiki Idowu of Ikotun Senior High School, Ikotun, have emerged winners in the primary and secondary categories of the 2015 edition of the Spelling Bee competition for public primary and secondary schools in Lagos State. Organised by the Office of Education Quality Assurance, Lagos State Ministry of Education, the competition is aimed at developing the innate skills of the students in the state, creating good reading habits and helping them improve their spelling skills, increase their vocabulary and develop correct English usage.

COMRADE Martins Abiodun, president of University of Lagos Student Union, ULSU, speaks on the reason behind the recent protest on xenophobia to the South Africa embassy on Monday and of his government. The ULSU president said he and his team went to present a manifesto to the SA embassy to address the xenophobia menace on foreigners, especially Nigerians living there,as failure of South Africa’s government to address this issue within 24hours will result in swift action by Nigerians.

Students of University of Nigeria, Nsukka have been urged to imbibe entrepreneurship culture, which will build self-reliance in their pursuit for success, as a panacea for unemployment and poverty in Nigeria. The advice was given during a two-day students’ entrepreneurship week titled: Graduates Self Employment, A Veritable Tool for Nation Building, organized by the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Development Research (CEDR), University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

THE Director General of National Institute for Legislative Studies ,NILS, Dr. Ladi Hamalai, is one of those who are disturbed by recurring loss of institutional memory in the National Assembly when most serving members fail to return after general elections.

The 2015 general elections have come and gone, but the aftermath continues to generate controversies in some quarters despite the ruling party conceding defeat to the opposition. This piece examines some of the issues that shaped the exercise, the outcome and the way forward for the nation’s young democracy

Nigerian sprinters have a common goal; to finish in the top three in their respective events at the second IAAF World Relays billed for Nassau, Bahamas this weekend.

HE is fondly called ‘Ekwueme’ by close associates and when he signaled his intention to contest through consultation; he felt the pulse of the masses. Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa was aware of what the journey entails, that there will be friends and distractors, that sycophants and jesters will come on board, that traitors and fair weather friends will be there, just as there would be committed disciples.

COORDINATOR of Buhari Campaign Orgnanisation in Delta North Senatorial District, Dr. Iyke Odikpo, in this interview, speaks on what President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari should do in the next fours to stabilise Nigeria and how struggle for federal appointments has locked Delta State All Progressives Congress (APC) in crisis