PROTEST, whether peaceful or violent is not new to residents of Ajegunle, an average size community in Ajeromi\Ifelodun LGA in Lagos state. Ironically dubbed the Jungle City,(perhaps because of the people’s lifestyle) Ajegunle has been adjudged one of the most peaceful communities in Lagos State with nearly every resident having at least, basic knowledge of the other.

For Alhaja Risikat Lawal, wife of the late Alhaji Saliu Lawal,54, Public Relations Officer of National Open University [NOUN] , this year’s April Fool’s Day was her day of sorrow. That day, her husband, a media practitioner for 20 years from Share in Ifelodun LGA, Kwara, who had been plying the Lagos/Ilorin route for his duties, had called that he would come to Ilorin that day.

PERHAPS apart from divine intervention, benevolence and generosity could best be said to have saved the life of a five year-old baby boy from being kidnapped for a ransom by those who had worked, lived with, and benefitted immensely from his father. At the stalling revelation of the heinous plan, father of the victim, Mr. Mike Nwaforchukwu could not believe his ears as he listened to his ex- staff’s confession.

IN recent times, calls for Nigeria to divide along ethnic and regional lines were rife brought about by alleged marginalisation in one form or the other by different ethnic groups. United States Intelligence even said that if care is not taken, Nigeria, as we know it today, may stop to exist.

The rich and brilliant display of culture bore close resemblance to the world famous Brazilian street carnival that is usually marked by breath-taking music, dance and colourful costumes. Indeed the event, the Third Black Heritage Festival, put together by the Lagos State government and its private sector partners was a week-long celebration and dramatization of the rich and limitless resourcefulness of the Black race.

Justice George Adesola Oguntade, justice of the Supreme Court is unarguably one of the best legal minds that ever sat on the bench in Nigeria. He had an illustrious judicial career spanning 30 years that took him to the apex court where he retired on March 10 2010 upon clocking the mandatory retirement age of 70. He

The suit by some shareholders of African Petroleum Plc, who had dragged the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Security and Exchange Commission, SEC, amongst others to court over alleged manipulation of AP shares, is now standing-still before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

By Emmanuel Aziken Chief Alphonsus Igbeke who obtained a court judgment penultimate Thursday to remove Senator Joy Emodi from the Senate may have perfected a way upstaging legislators from his native Anambra State in the courts.Before Mrs. Emodi, Igbeke largely hailed as Ubanesse by friends and associates had also orchestrated in a very controversial and […]

By Osita Mba In a letter dated 29 March 2010, the National Judicial Council notified me of the outcome of my petition     against Justice Ibrahim Buba for gross incompetence and flagrant abuse of powers amounting to judicial misconduct and breaches of the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers in relation to his perpetual injunction restraining […]

By Chris Agbiti One thing that I find curious about the Nigerian Medical doctors anytime I find myself at the corridor of our many health centres, (or is death centres?) is their paradoxical display of aristocratic gaiety as they strut our health landscapes in the performance of their work before their patients who usually watch […]

The 1999 constitution recognises the sanctity of life, freedom from torture, liberty to move freely without restriction and the presumption of innocence, in the event of the commission of a crime.

After over four decades in the trade union movement within which period he became the general secretary of a trade union from 1978 to2009, left wing intellectual of the trade union movement, Comrade Sylvester Ejiofoh bowed out of career trade unionism late last year.

Westminster College, Lagos, one of the top secondary schools in the country, is in partnership with 20 overseas universities that will give direct admission to students for courses of their choice on successful completion of the university foundation programme at the college.

The N40 billion which the Katsina State government pumped into the education sector in the last two years has led to enrolment increase at both primary and secondary school levels.

The recent poor performance of the nation in football and other sporting activities has been blamed on neglect of the grass-root by those in authority.