Imagine this! It takes you about eight or nine years to pursue an academic course. On the year of graduation, you are told to wait while your mates graduate. The waiting game continues for 19 years and you are still patient, waiting for that final exercise to accord you the full regalia of your calling. Such patience is phenomenal and may only be derived from spiritual strength. If you add the number of years in school, then you are talking about 28 years!

To most of his colleagues, Chukwuma Onyeoshi is a quintessential civil servant who lives on his meagre salary of grade level 13. His wardrobe consists of three well-worn shirts, two pairs of trousers and an equally well-worn native attire that he wears to work on Fridays. His only car that spends more time with the mechanic than bringing him to the office is a Peugeot 504 saloon car that he bought when old cars were auctioned in the office. His sight evokes pity from his colleagues as many see him as a man who is always struggling to make ends meet.

THE ruling Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Ondo state has suffered a set back as two former commissioners, Local government Chairmen and two former Lawmakers defected to the opposition All Progressive Congress APC.

My guy and I don’t draw lines about when or when not to have sex but things have changed lately. My partner is now apprehensive about having sex when I’m menstruating or having breakthrough bleeding. His male friends told him that menstrual material could get lodged in his urethra and cause an infection. That doesn’t make sense to me. How could menstrual material be any more infectious than other body fluids that are exchanged during sex?

DELTA Ijaw Oil and Gas Producing Communities have described the contentious 2016 Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bill now before the state assembly as a display of “injustice and gross abuse of power against Ijaw interests.

Hell was let loosed on Friday morning after a 50-year-old, tanker driver identified as Salisu Sanni, was reportedly killed by an official of Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASMA) around Ijesha/Sanya expressway. It was learned that the driver was knocked down by an official of Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) while he was struggling with a policeman who collected his vehicle keys from him.

HOW much of cash earmarked by the Federal Government for the execution of people-oriented projects across the country was siphoned through the back door by influential and powerful politicians for many years running? This is the big task that the Federal Government has opted to undertake in order to ascertain the exact amount cornered by a few elements and take appropriate measures to recover the cash and punish the masterminds. And this time government is determined to probe the government bodies beyond the President Jonathan administration. The investigation, we gathered will stretch to 1999.

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the death of the traditional ruler of Benin Kingdom, Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa as a great national loss.

The minister of Solid Minerals Development Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday declared that the parlous state of economy in Nigeria requires more aggressive approach to industrialisation. The former Ekiti state governor, also said the era of paying lip service to the diversification of the economy was over.

STRONG indications emerged that the controversy surrounding the 2016 Appropriation Bill would be put to rest on Monday as members of the Senate Committee on Appropriations were having marathon meetings since Thursday. As part of moves to end the quagmire, the Committee on Friday entered into another round of meeting, with a vow to produce a clean copy on Monday, afterwhich the report would be presented on Tuesday and deliberated on by the Senators for onward passage to President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday for assent.