The detention of Hamza Al Mustapha along with other military and police officers has generated significant public interest for two main reasons: The personality of Al Mustapha and the perception in many circles that the incarceration is political.

It is possible to get away with anything in Nigerian if you can pay the bill. Police and even some Military officers are now rented for all manners of ridiculous or condescending activities including using them as temporary aide de camp to smart guys to impress their girlfriends, as recently exposed by some soft-sell magazines.

A widow, Princess Abiodun Folashade Omotade, who lost her husband in the ill-fated Bellview Air Crash of October 23 2005 has instituted an action at an Ikeja High Court against a businessman, Alhaji Safiriyu Kazeem, claiming N5billion as damages for a libelous publication in national daily on August 2 2010.

We have Oba of Benin, Asagba of Asaba, Obi of Onitsha, Emirs, Sultan, Shehu of Borno, Alaafin of Oyo, Ooni of Ife, all traditional rulers. In the Republican Constitution of 1963, like the independence Constitution of 1959, our cultures, norms and religions were adequately catered for. In the regions – we had Houses of Assembly with concurrent Houses of chiefs.

Front page report of a national newspaper on Friday 10 September 2010 with the caption:“Jonathan, Contest Election, Face Court Action; Atiku Group Warns President” refers. As a civil and political rights advocate and an active Nigerian, I feel constrained to respond to the unlawful threats issued by Atiku’s Group against the person and office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, before it spills off the cusp and unduly overheat the polity.

Any inquisitive mind naturally will want to know what is new about this “new deal”. One need not to be an economic expert to appreciate that corruption in whatever guise breeds instability and threatens the social fabric of any society, but more significantly corruption breeds, poverty, social dislocation, unemployment, crimes and political disharmony .

It is a common sayingthat education is the best legacy parents can bequeath to their children. The United Nations says that education is a right of every child that should not be infringed upon. Indeed, education is seen as the surest path to a country’s development. Notable personalities around the world have lent their support in one way or the other to the struggle of making governments around the world to realize the importance of education.

Undoubtedly, the reading culture of our nation seems to be dying gradually as values are shifting from good behaviour, moral uprightness, literary dexterity, creativity, acquisition of positive, constructive knowledge, to the profane, mundane values of greed, avarice, despondency and materialistic tendencies. Nigeria is at educational crossroad which underscores the need for the development of a healthy, robust reading culture which is the foundation of a sound education system.

Anaesthesia is a specialization of medicine that deals with reversible, controllable and predictable methods of pain relief for operative surgery; with or without loss of consciousness. Anaesthetists primarily therefore work in the operating theatre. However and owing to their in-depth training on principles of measurement and monitoring equipments as well as acute medicine, anaesthetists are often in charge of the Intensive Care Units.

The continued withholding of the results of the 2010 May/June Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination in Bayelsa State by WAEC may scuttle the high education aspiration of the affected students in the state.

This edition details the duties of the employer and the employee in handling people living with HIV/ AIDS as stated in the new international standards adopted at the 99th International Labour Conference, held in Geneva, Switzerland.

MANAGEMENT of Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, and the leadership of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE, have up to the end of September to conclude negotiation on the review of workers’ conditions of service.

President Goodluck Jonathan through the Minister of Education has in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital flagged off the training of over 140,000 teachers nationwide in line with the federal government 2010 Millennium Development Goal declaring that the country’s crusade against poverty reduction will continue to be a mirage if it fails to invest in the educational sector.

About One Hundred and Twenty (120) participants were awarded certificates and prizes as the 2010 Summer School Programme of Caleb International College, Magodo, Lagos, came to an end on Friday September 3, 2010 with lots of fun, exhibition and award presentation.

Crawford Univer-sity, Faith City, Igbesa, Ogun State, inaugurated a reconstituted Board of Trustees (BOT) as the term of the pioneering board which came into existence in 2005 when the institution was licensed by the Federal Government has expired.