BETWEEN last Wednesday and Friday, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, faction, led by Comrade Ayuba Wabba, and some members of the civil society, allies of the organised labour, went on a nationwide strike to force the Federal Government to reverse the N145 pump price of petrol.The strike did not enjoy the support of the Comrade Joe Ajaero-led faction of NLC or the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, which pulled out at the last minute.In this interview, Ajaero gives an insight into what led to both factions of the NLC going separate ways and how agreements were reached with the Federal Government, among other issues.

Maritime Police Command, under Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Alhaji Musa Katsina, covering 21 states with coastal lines across Nigeria, has arrested a suspected clearing agent allegedly working for a syndicate that specialised in smuggling.

Ogbeni Lanre Banjo is a three-time governorship candidate in Ogun State. A Certified Public Accountant (Chartered) with wealth of experience in both government and governance, he had served as a Treasurer for a member of the United States’ House of Representatives, Mayor of the District of Columbia, and a Council member.

In my column on December 20, 2015, I wrote; Men do suffer from emotional abuse. It seems they are more men who experience emotional and physical abuse than they dare admit. It generated a lot of debate and I do hope this one on domestic violence would do likewise. The subject of domestic violence is an uncomfortable one, it is uncomfortable to discuss and, not just because of the nature of the violence but there is a wall of silence when it comes to getting people to talk freely about domestic violence. I told my sister, Sola that I was going to write about domestic violence she was worried on how it would be received.

Visitors to some hotels in Enugu metropolis are having a hard time trying to ward-off desperate teenagers dressed in skimpy dresses to attract prospective customers.

There is one thing that modernity, Christianity and education have not extricated from the psyche of some communities in Cross River State and that is the proclivity to settling scores and disagreements with machetes and guns.

Three kids: David Adeyemi, 5; Ibrahim Mohammed, 3; and Ibrahim Mohammed Sambo , 4, with holes in their hearts, can live following open heart surgeries performed on them at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH).

Eventful. That is the word that captures the last one and a half weeks for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). During the period, the FIRS sent out enforcement teams across the country to get companies with tax liabilities to pay. The enforcement came after the FIRS had given a six-week notice to such companies. The notice, however, was ignored.

At a time when the principle of right and wrong has become endangered in Nigeria following poor leadership, Pastor Wale Adefarasin is concerned about how to bring back those things, govern social behaviour in the country. To achieve this value re-orientation, Adefarasin, who is the General Overseer of Guiding Light Assembly, a non-denominational church with branches in Lagos, Abuja and London, says, in this interview, that the collapsed family system in Nigeria must be repaired. To this end, Adefarasin and a life-coach, Lanre Olusola, have concluded plans for specialised family oriented master class. The pastor reveals some defining stages in his life.

Life Coach, Lanre Olusola, in this interview says Nigeria needs to commence action to bring the country back to the path of value system. He also offers insight into how he intends to carry out the mandate alongside Pastor Wale Adefarasin. Olusola, who works with individuals, organizations and government agencies to transition from where they are to where they desire and are designed to be, believes that if families are successfully transformed, Nigeria’s transformation will become a reality.

To be candid, I still do not understand the false confidence that came over the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) when it announced a nationwide strike in protest against the recent fuel price increase in the country. I am very amused that the leadership seem deluded that they can still get the attention of Nigerian workers, as it was a few years back. It seemed somewhat foolhardy for the NLC to think it still commands respect among workers.

Former Nigeria Football Association, NFA Chairman, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima has said the 7-man committee on the NFF set up by Youth and Sports Minister, Barristwer Solomon Dalung which he heads is a reformatory rather than a reconciliatory committee as most Nigerians think.

Oke Ako community in Ikole local government area of Ekiti State was, on Friday night, thrown into chaos after suspected herdsmen invaded the village, leaving two dead and several others wounded.

Strong ambitions run deep in this family. And the dreams are always for positive reasons. Young Emily Oluwatoyin Nkanga is only keying into success story of the family she was born into 21 years ago. The brilliance, success and the ‘we-can-do-it’ spirit of the members of this family have marked it out and endeared them to many in the community and beyond. The pace-setter and Emily’s father, Air Commodore Idongesit Okon Nkanga of Ikot Nya, a tiny faming hamlet in Nsit Ibom Local Government of Akwa Ibom State, is a well respected political leader in the state. He dreamt big, aiming to become a pilot at a time when the knowledge of such a subject was not only very limited but was almost unknown to the average rural family in the then South Eastern State. Those who knew about piloting as a career must have considered it to be for the ‘white men’ and not for a poor rural boy like Nkanga, whose parents laboured stridently to be able to pay his secondary school fees at the time. Notwithstanding the hurdle, the young man, surmounted all the hurdles and set a new record in his school by recording 6/6 in his WAEC School Certificate, meaning that he scored A1 in all the six subjects: English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Additional Mathematics and Biology.

It is expectation of every parent seeing his child goes on in life to become successful.