The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, says 72 people have died of Lassa Fever since January 1.

NON-Teaching Staff of Nigeria Universities have been on strike for over two months now as a result of the unresolved issues with the Federal Government. The bone of contention presently is the N23 billion Earned Allowances which the Federal Government released to the four university-based unions after reconciliatory meeting midwifed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige. 

Legal luminary, Professor Taiwo Osipitan, SAN, is a Professor of Law and erudite Senior Advocate of Nigeria. For over 34 years as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, he combines lecturing and active legal practice. In this interview, he takes a walk down memory lane with Vanguard and talks about various issues. Excerpts

Bauchi State government has intervened in the dispute between the State Universal Basic Education Board SUBEB and Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi Foundation over Qur’anic recitation of Tsangaya Schools across the state.

THE attack on the Government Girls Technical College, in Dapchi, Yobe State, apart from re-opening the unhealed wounds which the abduction of Chibok girls left in the national psyche, has once again dealt a wicked blow to the national effort to promote girl-child education in Nigeria. Most painfully, it is occurring in the most educationally-disadvantaged zone in the country.

lagos—VICE-President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday said at least $2billion, about N720 billion would be required to revive the Lagos-Kano Rail Line project, declaring that for Nigeria to achieve meaningful growth in commerce and economic development, Lagos and Kano states must be greatly considered.

MAKURDI—Benue State Police Commissioner, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, has pledged the Command’s commitment to ensure enforcement of the state’s Open Grazing Prohibition Law, which came into effect last November 1.

KATSINA—The death of two students of Federal University of Dustinma, FUDMA, Katsina State, is set to pitch the students against the university authorities over the cause of their deaths.

The Kogi State government, yesterday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for the setting up of a biofuel plant and refinery in Kogi State.

Lagos—An accountant, Adelani Afolabi, who was also a former treasurer of the Parent- Teacher Association PTA, at Queens College, has slammed a N50 million, ‘libel’ suit against the chairman of the PTA, John Ofobike and 11, others before a Lagos High Court, sitting in Igbosere.