Worried over the sudden rise in fake certificates, particularly of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has called for thorough investigations into NYSC certificates issued to public officials.

Except you knew him in his heydays, you may argue at your detriment that Air Vice Marshal Anthony Okpere, retd, was a man of political power and influence. Aside from residing in highbrow Victoria Island, Lagos, nothing around him suggests authority and affluence. The aura of simplicity surrounding the Uromi-born retired military chief leaves you wondering what has changed between past public office holders and the current set of Nigerian leaders. Answers to that are in this interview with the former Minister of Aviation and Managing Director of defunct Nigeria Airways, who clocked 80 recently.

Rev. Nnimmo Bassey, a renowned environmental rights advocate, has been conferred with an honorary doctorate of law degree by the York University in Toronto, Canada. 

THE governorship candidate of Alliance for Democracy, AD, in 2019, Chief Owolabi Salis, on Sunday, urged President Bola Tinubu, to go after the major oil barons, who are luring innocent people into bunkering in Nigeria, instead of the decision to start bombing and killing the poor who were carrying out the exercise.

The Lagos State Government has stressed the need to boost and patronise the local products in Nigeria, particularly agricultural produce in view of the country’s present economic hardship.