The generally poor performance of students in the recently released NECO examination results has been blamed on negligence by all stakeholders of education.

In economics of human effectiveness, the demand of success outweighs the supply of success in the scale of equilibrium. But there is a thin line between the demand and supply of success. This thin line is what makes the world of difference between succeeding and failing.

Facts File
•Although elementary education is compulsory, data from national household surveys revealed that the net primary school attendance in Nigeria from 2000-2007 only 68% of eligible males, 59% of eligible females attend primary schools.

By Emmanuel Edukugho With the mass failure recorded in the NECO 2009 November/December Senior Secondary School (SSSCE), whereby only 1.8% of the total candidates who sat for the examination passed in five subjects including English and Mathematics required for entry into the university system, Nigerian basic education has degenerated to the extent that it is […]

IT is not uncommon to find private drivers discussing in group at the Country Club, Ikeja, Lagos, on matters bothering round their personal lives, while their bosses are engaged in either official or social gathering inside. But one of such discussions recently resulted in the kidnap of a 71-year-old man, with the driver to the octogenarian spearheading an issue that has assumed a worrisome dimension in the country.

DRIVER, I would alight at PWD Bus Stop,” said Yinka to the driver of this Lagos commercial bus but the driver told her he wouldn’t stop there because of officials of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority (LASTMA) and Area Boys.

TWO traders identified as Chidiebere Ozurumba and Chizoba Nwankwo whose stalls are located at the popular Ojo Alaba International market, in Ojo local government area of Lagos state respectively are currently telling detectives attached to the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Fed. SARS) Adeniji Adele, Lagos, all their tricks in diverting cleared containers and selling the contents at give away prices. They were alleged to had recently conspired with some yet to be known person to hijack and diverted a 40ft container load of 500 units of LG television sets valued at N14 million.

AJEGUNLE, the popularly acclaimed ‘Jungle City’ in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State has always been in the news for different reasons. It is presently in the news on account of a riot rocked the area when some youths took to the streets to protest alleged police brutality on some residents.

Before now, it was always hell for regular travellers trying to get out of Lagos from the old Toll-Gate to Berger end of the road due to heavy and chaotic traffic as a result of inadequate road network on that axis.

The parliamentarians were discussing the goings-on in Nigeria, from our special breed of politicians, to our special brand of democracy, to incessant and unwarranted blood-letting, when TJ, who apparently sick and tired of the whole thing asserted that God must be punishing us as a nation for all the evil going on in the country. This elicited reactions from other commuters. First to react was Peter who pointed out that God was not punishing us but that we are punishing ourselves.

Kehinde and Adebola Onilude are a young and dynamic couple, both indigenes of Oyo town who occupy a small apartment at Ikotun, a Lagos surbub. Kehinde 32, a former teacher got married to Adebola, 30 on May 23, 2009 with a lot of expectations. One of such expectations was to give birth without stress and their joy knew no bound when Adebola was later confirmed pregnant at a private hospital in Lagos.

EASTER is the festival of the Christian Church that commemorates the Resurrection of Christ. Easter designates the annual Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ. During Lent there is intense fasting, meditation and prayers, with all its observances, gives way to Easter when the Church jubilates in the resurrection of Christ.

THERE is no disputing the fact that the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the cardinal events that give Christianity its essence. If Christ had not died he would not have paid back the life man lost in the Garden of Eden and if he had not risen there would have been no hope of life for all those who had served God faithfully all through the ages. (I Corinthians 15:12ff)

It was just like any other weekend at Zango, a suburb in Ilorin Kwara State, where Mrs Iyabode Olorunnisola, a renowned broadcaster at the NTA, Ilorin, lives.

COMPARED to the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified at Golgotha, Mr. Patrick Sunday Onyiuku’s cross which ironically symbolized the presence of God at his ‘sanctuary’ located on Salawu Street, off Ojuelegba Road Surulere, Lagos, is convincingly longer and much more awesome.