Standard education in Nigeria has been highly rated and well-improved, measuring globally and even better than some developed countries.

Down Syndrome Association of Nigeria has urged the National Assembly to expedite action in passing the disability bill currently waiting to pass through the third reading in the Senate.

Nigerian Universities have been slammed as breeding grounds for the same societal ills they are charged to correct.

The Executive Director, Society Icons Mr. Nduka Mike Okonji has said that the national value decadence prevalent in our society is due to negligence in given students early basic knowledge that will change their orientation on national and human value. He gave this antidote during a workshop organized recently by Society Icons to sensitized school proprietors and other stakeholders in education sector.

WHEN the rain poured in torrents in most parts of Lagos State last Tuesday evening, many Lagosians sighed with relief. They relished the fact that it came with a refreshing coolness after they have had to endure a spell of unusually hot weather. But for most residents of Debo Bashorun Street, a stone throw from the popular Faseun Road, near Century Bus-stop, Okota, the last thing they wish for now is another rainfall.

Chris Olakpe is the Commissioner of Police in-charge of Anti-bomb Disposal Unit. In this interview with Crime Alert, he spoke about his new assignment, series of bomb blasts in the country, the challenges and sundry issues.

Though many Nigerian house wives and food vendors may not have experienced famine at any time, but the prevailing difficulty in sourcing for the primary ingredients for providing needed meals for their variously families and customers may have left them wondering if that is presently the case in the country.

The Commissioner of Police, Oyo State, Baba Adisa Bolanta last week celebrated what was tagged, ‘harvest of arrests of criminals’ in the State when he paraded no fewer than 36 suspected criminals arrested at different locations. During the arrests, the command also recovered assorted guns, arms and ammunitions.

ALL that is not given is lost” is the guiding principle that seems to propel Sunshine For The Less- Privileged Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, NGO, that has taken it upon itself to cater, as much as it can, for the needy in Nigeria.

“THE people that did this are just simply animals; they’re not human beings at all,” angrily exclaimed a parliamentarian, Chuks Ojukwu at a bus-stop gathering in Lagos. He was reacting to the gory pictures of the women and children who were murdered in their sleep in Jos by some fanatical, blood-thirsty Fulani herdsmen.

He is a medical doctor but is more well known as a rambunctious politician. Massive looking Doyin Okupe could be a stormy petrel. You may not be sure of his weight but during the still-born Third Republic, when Okupe first served as Director of Publicity for the National Republican Convention, NRC, and later Director of Field Communications for the Bashir Tofa Presidential Campaign Organisation, he pulled some weight.

Dr Timothy Ayam is the National Support Co-ordinator of the Leprosy Mission in Nigeria, an NGO that was established as far back as 1920, to provide adequate medical treatment to people affected by leprosy.

Chief Peter Osugo is a respected veteran journalist around. He was Sports Editor in the Daily Times and later became Editor of the Sunday Times. The 81-year-old Delta State-born journalist spoke to BASHIR ADEFAKA in Lagos, recently. Excerpts:

The story with its accompanying photographs were not only shocking but gory. It detailed how 19 passengers aboard a luxury bus from Enugu to Lagos were crushed to death on the Ijebu-Ode/Shagamu Expressway in the second week of February, 2010. Emotions were high. Nigerians condemned the incident.

Their response seem to imply that their lives and survival depended on it. But unlike what obtains presently in Nigeria, members of the Lagos State House of Assembly surprisingly demonstrated the imperative of subjecting themselves to an HIV/AIDS test instead of shying away from it as many are wont. This they did during a one-day free HIV counseling and testing services organised by the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency, LSACA which took place at the Assembly complex.