The announcement of the endowment of Chief M.F. Lababidi Fellowship Fund at Columbia Business School (CBS) in New York, United States of America has opened a new window of opportunity to Nigerian students.

The Justice Hama Bakar-led Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ekiti State today declared People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Segun Oni, as the duly elected governor of the state and subsequently dismissed the petition of the Action Congress, AC gubernatorial candidate in April 25, 2009 re-run election, Dr Kayode Fayemi as lacking merit.

A 100-level student of Salem University (SU), Lokoja, Kogi State has emerged one of the best three students in an essay competition.

TILL date, the situation of the girl child in Nigeria and Africa remains critical, due to a lot of factors. Even though the 1990 African Charter on Human Rights and Welfare of the Child underscored these unique factors, the girl child is far from the special safeguard and care prescribed by the charter.

Despite the pockets of protests that have greeted the envisaged introduction of tolls along the Lekki -Epe expressway, the concessionaire, Messrs Lekki Concession Company (LCC) Limited last week insisted that barring unforeseen delays, the rehabilitation and upgrade of the 49.4 kilometre expressway will be completed before the end of 2011.

The Inspector-General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, Weekend ordered serious onslaught against pipeline vandals all over the federation. To this end, no fewer than 300 heavily armed Police officers and men have been deployed immediately to critical active segments in the country.

They say planes can’t fly now because a kind of smokey ash from a vulcanic eruption has covered the sky in Europe making it impossible for pilots to see their way to the airports they want to land.

Ebonyi State is called “The Salt of the Nation” for the simple reason that the entire stretch of the state harbours a rich deposit of natural salt under the earth.

Then late Chief Obafemi Awolowo was in detention and he made a copy of the first agreement available to us at the student level. We went through it and we were not very happy. It was signed by Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Nnamdi Azikiwe and the document gave the full right to the British to use our airspace to test their air force planes. We felt this has negated the whole idea of our independence significantly and we mobilized the student movement and the country knew that we were serious and the Anglo-Nigeria Defence Pact was cancelled. Same thing with the census figures.

In every contest, you have to contend with the opposition. If you must possess your possession of good health, you must get up and fight. What you don’t want, you don’t watch! What you don’t fight has the right to prevail! What you don’t confront, you cannot conquer!

According to Atiku Abubakar, the chairman of his Jeli ward in Jada Local Government Area of Adamawa State, likens his return to that of the prodigal son. However, what he failed to add is that unlike the biblical prodigal son who came back to meet a stable and organised home, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku’s home, was anything but organised by the time Atiku returned last week.

I got the name, “working Bible” when I started traveling around the world preaching the gospel of salvation. The white people whom I came in contact with, while doing the work of God, had a way of describing the fascinating way I quote the scripture.

“THIS is getting out of hand, believe me. Our men are becoming uncontrollably reckless with fire arms and this calls for great concern. We have to tell ourselves the truth. The other day, it was a violent protest in Ajegunle over the killing of a defenseless young boy by a police Corporal who was on illegal duty.

LIKE the biblical Rachel who wept uncontrollably and refused to be consoled over the massacre of her children, Mrs Marian Kalu has vowed not to sleep until she sets her eyes on her daughter, Chinedu, whom she took to a church for a spiritual cleansing but disappeared into thin air, hours later in the church.

The Police image maker stressed the need for members of the public to carry out thorough checks and investigations on people seeking job in their organization before offering such jobs to them. Narrating the case of the female Accountant and her boyfriend, Mba said that one Beatrice Effomah (24), who resides off Jaiyeola Street, Green Ville Estate, Badore, Ajah, Lagos and an indigene of Uzere Delta State, on the 10th of April, 2010, conspired with her boyfriend, one Solomon Jabless (30) and made away with over N2 million belonging to her employer, while she was taking the money to the bank. She was an accountant to a popular filling station located at Ajah area of the State.