WHILE it is not proven that high employment rate has a direct or indirect correlation with trade surplus, it is worth nothing that many of these countries with high employment rates are generally realised as countries with successful economies. In fact, an article listing the top 10 economies in the world and runner-ups (Prableen Bajpai) included every single country named on the list documenting the 10 countries with the lowest unemployment rate (Adamson).

SIXTEEN year-old Bukola Zoffun who recently emerged the 2017 one-day acting governor of Lagos State, has pledged to use her influence to encourage Nigerian youths, especially those from the slums, to seek proper education. She stated this during a courtesy visit to Rite Foods Limited, Opebi, Ikeja.

MISS Oluwatosin Jacob, a final year Law student at the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, is seeking for justice from the institution’s authorities over what she described as an assault from a SUG executive during the Union’s meeting.

THE dust raised by National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, recent report that Nigeria has exited the excruciating economic recession on the ground that Nigerian economy grew in real terms for the first time in 15 months in the second quarter of 2017, will take time to settle as concerned individuals and groups have continued to comment  on it.

Proceedings at an Ikeja High Court on Wednesday took another turn when Ahmed Isiaka, a defendant charged with armed robbery, told a stunned courtroom that he did not know his female co-defendant.