FORMER Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, yesterday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to highlight what funds borrowed and recovered from looters will be used for, in order to give hope to Nigerians suffering as a result of the recession.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and the Olu of Warri, His Majesty Ogiame Ikenwoli, will be special guest of honour and Royal Father of the Day at the launching of Itsekiri Socio-Cultural Club (also known as Otonloye) N100 million hall in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of the state.

WORRIED by the deplorable state of Nigeria’s educational institutions at all levels, especially at the early years and primary levels, and the dwindling fortunes of the sector, unarguably the bedrock of any development, Edumark Consult in conjunction with Concerned Parents and Educators Network (CPEN) organised a one day conference tagged The Gathering, aimed at birthing a new generation of education reformers.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the just concluded Edo State governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu will on Friday, formally lead the street protests against the declaration by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of the All Progressive Party, APC, candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki as the winner of the September 28, 2016 election.

In this judicial year, Nigerians are hoping for a judiciary that will deliver better, efficient and quick substantive justice. The masses hope for a judiciary where looters of public funds will have their day in court and get their just reward for damages done to our dear country; a judiciary that will continue to cleanse and sanitise the political and democratic process to a affirm the fact that power belongs to the citizenry.

AT the time the curtain fell on 2016 International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference in Washington D.C, on September 23, lawyers who attended were better educated on issues of concern to the profession globally. For the Bar and the Bench, conferences at home and abroad are vistas of fresh ideas, challenges and continued legal education that expands the frontiers of practices.

Elderson Echiejile has played down talks of any pressure on Nigeria ahead of the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification in Africa this Sunday.

The Managing Director Designate of Niger Delta Development Com-mission, NDDC, Mr. Nsima Ekere, has condoled with the family of former Inspec-tor-General of Police, Sir Etim Inyang, on his death.

STakeholders in education sector, especially Nigerian teachers, yesterday, while celebrating the 2016 World Teachers’ Day, critically identified the abrogation of Grade II teacher, unworkable curriculum and poor remuneration, among others, as the bane of our education standard. Just as it has been disclosed that Nigeria’s education system has lost its glory by occupying the 145th position in primary education advancement in the world’s record.

THE House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating alleged corruption, malpractices and breach of due process in the award of Oil Prospecting Licence, OPL, 245, yesterday said the United Kingdom Prosecution Service has agreed to help Nigeria recover $1.1 billion diverted oil bloc money.

By Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT—Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Iyayi Lamikanra, yesterday, ordered the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to arrest the Comptroller of Federal Prisons and the Deputy Comptroller in charge of Port Harcourt Prisons, over their failure to produce the ex-Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Ojukaye Amachree. Amachree is facing […]

Ahead of the re-run elections in Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike has warned election riggers to stay away from the state, saying that they would be resisted.

The Enugu State chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for his giant stride in the state, especially his timely intervention on the commencement of rehabilitation work at the Federal Government road along Oji-River–Ugwuoba-Anambra State border and his contributions towards the success story of Enugu Rangers International Football Club as the new champions of the Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL.

FOLLOWING three years of very successful performances in Nigeria and Davos, Switzerland, the (spectacular) award winning “Kakadu” the Musical will be coming to the Nelson Mandela Theatre, Johannesburg as part of the Africa Day Celebrations from the 7th to the 18th of June 2017. This was announced yesterday by Claire Pacariz, the Executive Producer, Jo’burg City Theatres.

Last month, a video surfaced on Facebook, showing several scenes of a boy of about eight-year-old heavily bullying toddlers in a daycare centre while an older lady—apparently the boy’s mother— appeared at intervals to sooth the crying toddlers, pretending to be unaware of the cause of their cries. At least her failure to reprimand the ‘little demon’ like most Facebook users described the boy, proved that.