The environment at the Olomi area secretariat of the Oyo State purportedly proscribed National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, can be likened to a war situation. Stern-looking union members were scattered around the area in groups and it was easy to see and smell hidden weapons all over the place.

Covenant University Chancellor, Dr. David Oyedepo has blamed lack of applicable knowledge for the suffering of the people, and called for a bold review of the curriculum to address real life problems.

Mr Rafiu Lawal-Rabana, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, is a former Secretary General of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. In this interview, he spoke on a vide range of issues, including the on-going strike action by some state workers, in the education and health sectors, who are demanding the be paid what their counterparts in federal establishments are paid.

THE Coroner inquest into the cause of the ghastly motor accident that occurred at the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, by Otedola Estate on August 15, 2010, in which many lives were lost and property worth million of naira destroyed has provided an insight on how precious lives are lost needlessly in the country, especially on our roads.

THE war against hard drugs in the country seemed to be assuming a fever-height crescendo with the destruction of a large expanse of farm land used for the cultivation of cannabis sativa, otherwise known as India hemp. The farm lands used for the cultivation of the prohibitive plants were destroyed across the country including Ekiti and Delta states respectively between January and September this year.

To X-ray Nigeria at 50 years while searching for an alternative paradigm, what then is it about Nigeria at 50 years that warrants a search for an alternative paradigm? You certainly do not change a winning formula if you are doing well. It is only when you are doing otherwise that you run from the hospital to the herbalist, the church, the mosque, the magician and elsewhere for a winning formula or a cure. So, the questions are: Is Nigeria doing well? Has Nigeria done well? Does Nigeria have a plan to do well?

Last week Lagos State pensioners converged at the state Secretariat Alausa, Ikeja to receive retirement bond certificates in accordance with the implementation of the state contributory pension scheme, a fallout of Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004.

On October 8, 2010, the former Chief Executive Officer of Oceanic Bank International Nigeria PLC, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru was sentienced to eighteen months imprison by the Federal High Court Lagos, Nigeria for committing various economic and financial crimes.

THE 6th National Labour Relations Summit organised by Michael Imodu National Institute of Labour Studies, MINILS, held few days ago at the ancient city of Ilorin, Kwara State, with the theme “ Nigeria at 50: Appraising the Role of Labour in Nation Building”, would not have come at a more critical time in the history of Nigeria when no labour leader, dead or alive was in the list of 50 Nigerians honoured by President Jonathan for their roles in the socio-economic and political development of Nigeria as part of the nation’s golden independence anniversary.

SIGNS that the late rainy season is eventually coming to an end, appears to have raised hope that the flood ravaging some communities abutting the Ogun River will soon subside. While the Lagos State government has offered a temporary relocation at Agbowa, an outskirt of Ikorodu, some residents of Isheri community in Ogun State still battle with the flood even as many of them claim they were duly warned about the situation by the state government.

Professor Isaac Rotimi Ajayi has been elected as the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University, AKungba-Akoko by the institution Senate at its special  meeting held on Oct. 27, 2010. His  election and that of the incumbent Director of GST, Prof. G.O. Abe, had earlier been placed before Senate by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Femi […]

Teniola Tope Ojo, a JSS 2 student of Holy Child College, Ikoyi, Lagos recently won a whopping sum of 2 million naira in the children special programme of who wants to be a million Television Programme. She was interviewed by the members of Press/Literary and Debating Society of the School. Here are some of the […]

The best 185 students from an average of 100 schools per state nationwide that sat for the state stage of the competition that was held on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 have qualified for the next stage that will take place between November 28-30 in the six geo-political zones and the FCT, Abuja.

ABEG President Goodluck Jonathan is weak. We need somebody who is strong-willed, someone with a mind of his own, who is willing to take risks,” blurted Sam this Saturday morning while the commuter bus was moving through Ikeja on its way to Apapa Wharf.

Recent indications appear to suggest that all is not well with the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) established in year 2000 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The agency under Dr. Magnus Kpakol is believed to be crumbling because it has been turned into a house of insidious intrigues and infighting.