On June 29, this year, a three member panel of the Benin division of the Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed an appeal by Dr Mariam Ali against the electoral victory of Senator Patrick Osakwe in the 2007 Delta-North Senatorial District poll. The election held on April 29, 2007.

Prof. Akin Oyebode of the University of Lagos is a Professor of international relations and jurisprudence. In this interview, he argued that we must get our electoral process right before we can make headway as a country. To this end, he suggested that we must fight corruption to a stand still and ensure only good political leaders, emerge at the end of the day.

Recently 150 men who reside predominantly in the north of Nigeria held a meeting in Abuja to accomplish an unusual objective, to wit: How to prevent Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2011 Presidential Primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, thus paving the way for someone from their ranks to emerge as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in May 2011.

Rape as horrific as the phenomenon is, has become one of the commonest crimes committed in Nigeria. Rampant cases of rape are being reported often in the news. But more horrifying is the fact that most victims of rape are young children under the ages of 4-13 years defiled by men who have lost all sense of decency and totally lack spiritual base and conscience.

DESPITE persistent controversy trailing the introduction of post-Unifed Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) formerly called post-UME since 2005 by the Federal Government, university Vice Chancellors are resolute in retaining the policy.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has faulted the planned abolition of Education Tax and Education Trust Fund, ETF, saying the fund remains one of the strongest and viable sources of fund to the education sector in the face of government’s continued indifference to funding educational activities.

The people of Ikyobo village in Ushongo local government area of Benue State are still counting their losses and mourning their dead following the mysterious crashing of a large tree branch at the centre of village market square which claimed the lives of no fewer than eight persons while scores sustained varying degrees of injury.

After about 18 months of a struggle for a new national minimum wage, organised labour has got the nod of other social partners; government and private sector employers represented by the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association ( NECA) for a review of the national minimum wage from N5,500 in 2000 to N18,000.

Lagos State Police Command seem to be ahead of all commands in the country in implementing, to the letter, all policy directions, criminal strategies and manoeuvrers mapped out by their authorities in Abuja. When detectives from the command are not pursuing fleeing criminals who operated freely in other states, they are busy tracking and arresting dare-devil kidnappers.

Just as the two winners of the programme: “Be Road Friendly” will be heading to the United Kingdom, August this year, Lagos State government has concluded plans to give immediate job opportunity to graduates of Lagos State University School of Traffic (LASUSOT) in order to alleviate the suffering of the unemployed graduates of the state.

Education is said to be the bed rock of any developing country, as it serves as a spring board to the well being of any nation. It also serves as the hub through which all sectors of any economy are powered. Unfortunately, the reverse is the case in Nigeria.

The clergy charged the students to emulate Nelson Mandela who is not just an elder statesman but also an international figure because of his outstanding performance adding that the governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola is a proxy example of an outstanding achiever amongst his counterparts.

By Emeka Aginam Having worked through the months to  successfully complete  another program of corporate citizenship activity in Nigeria aimed at helping Cross River State compete in a global marketplace, IBM consultants have helped the Cross River State University of Technology in the implementation of modern processes and technologies to ensure the effective running of […]

By Emmanuel Edukugho GRADUATING students of Loral International Schools, FESTAC/Igbesa have been advised not to fully depend on their parents for what they want, but to allow themselves the pleasure of some hardship and challenges.

The increasing influx of Chinese products into the Nigerian market is giving sleepless nights to many concerned Nigerians.Given that agencies like the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), the Standards Organisation of Nigeria ( SON) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC ), mann the borders to regulate the influx of banned and sub-standard goods, many are at a loss as to how these fake goods find their way into the country. Some have concluded that the institutions are largely ineffective in the discharge of their statutory responsibilities. Following the crippling effect of this trend on the economy, the Federal Government is set to tackle the problem headlong. Would this measure follow the way of other failed initiatives? Charles Kumolu asks.