Benue Killings: 2Baba calls for urgent action, says ‘we can’t pretend anymore’
Why we failed to deliver 6,000Mw – FG
Judiciary has fared fairly well under Yar’Adua govt, but…
The thrills and frills of Christmas (4)
NJC more than ready to discharge its constitutional functions
Constitution review: Rights groups task N/A committees (2)
Public interest litigation in West Africa (2)
2009: Strikes compound woes of education sector
Experts task professionals on research, medical education
NLC, organising the unorganised
PENGASSAN condemns govt over workers’ right at Free trade zone
85 graduate from Universal School of Aviation
Setting agenda for education managers in 2010
Yar’Adua’s Handdover:What the Law says, by Auwalu Yadudu

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The missing purse
Millions are out there with all their wealth but no child. They are willing to go to any length to have a child of their own. But here you are, with this beautiful little baby and simply because of one miserable purse that may not even contain more than N200.00, you are treating the baby like trash. You apparently value your purse more than the baby.â€
Women in Drug Deals!
As if the women were undaunted in their drug deals in spite of the continued arrest and paraded before newsmen, another woman who identified herself as Afegbai Esther was nabbed at the airport too while attempting to export 83 wraps of powdery substances which tested for cocain and heroin.
Bomb explosion: Expert warns on life of bomber
POLICE Authorities has asked to ensure that the safety of the suspected bomber, Mr. Tunde Ibrahim who attempted to deliver a parcel bomb to a yet to be named senior staff of Superscreen Television located at Logemo house, Onikpanu Lagos is guaranteed.Â
How I fought corruption as Minister – Bola Ajibola
I will give a good example: Once IBB (Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida) called me and said: What then do you think we can give you? I said, nothing, just this national service is a pleasure and that my wish is to serve the nation free of charge. I am just someone serving my own country and I derive joy for doing so without any hope of acquiring anything from there.
Why I jailed Mr President’s friend for 8 yrs — Justice Ota
Justice Esther Awo Ota [nee Eleje] is the incumbent President of the Gambian Court of Appeal.
She hails from Afikpo North Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. She graduated from the Faculty of Law, Imo State University in 1988 and was called to the prestigious Nigerian Bar in 1989. The worked briefly with two Federal Government parastatals after she was called to the bar till 1993 when she travelled to the Gambia to join her husband who is a medical doctor of international repute.
The thrills and frills of Christmas (3)
As Anderson B., noted in the leading case of Blyth v. Birmingham Waterworks Co. (1843 -60) All E.R. Rep. 478, “Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not doâ€.
It’s Christmas, but the party’s over
It’s Christmas again, but how many Nigerians know it as a fact in the true sense? How many people are really getting that special feeling which traditionally comes with the yuletide? How many are really sharing in the joy and goodwill the season has brought to the world
Day Nasarawa State University honoured Lar (The Emanicipator)
Last Saturday December 19, 2009 marked another milestone in the eventful life of former PDP National Chairman and first civilian governor of Plateau State Chief Solomon Daushep Lar as he was conferred with a honourary doctorate degree – Doctor of Laws (LL.D) by the Nasarawa State University, Keffi.
Education Roadmap task team kick-starts implementation monitoring
The positive impact which the Roadmap for Nigerian education is expected to have on the sector will soon start manifesting as the National Roadmap Implementation Task Team (NRITT) has swung into action in line with the systematic implementation strategy encapsulated in the Roadmap.
Yuletide : Exodus as Lagosians move homeward
WITH just a day to Christmas, unarguably, the most popular and widely celebrated Christian feast, the various bus terminals and markets in the city are now a beehive of activities as those intending to travel besiege the terminals to board vehicles to the hinterlands while those who intend to stay back, engage in last minute shopping to purchase what they need for the yuletide.
School Commandant counsels students on hard work
The Commandant, Command Day Secondary School, Ojo, Lagos, Lt Col U.N. Babangida has called on teachers and parents to catch their children young by molding them into great minds before they pass out of secondary school. Babangida made this known recently at the school’s 19th annual inter house sports competition.
OOU Crisis: ASUU orders lecturers to go on total strike
At the recent National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), held at Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, it was dismayed by the report of mass sack and intimidation at Olabisi Onabanjo University, (OOU) Ago-Iwoye.
400 teachers benefit from professional development programme
About 400 public primary school teachers from different parts of the country have received training in literacy skills, numeracy skills and early childhood development.
Why fuel scarcity persists
By Mike Ebonugwo THE recurring decimal of fuel scarcity in Nigeria was the issue that occupied the attention of parliamentarians at a bus-stop gathering in Ikotun, Lagos on Tuesday. This was the fallout of a complaint by a commuter about the high fares being charged by commercial bus operators in recent times. “I don’t know […]
Black Wednesday for two pastors
The jubilation that heralded the restoration of electricity after three days outage was short lived for residents of No 75, Ikotun Road, Ebedi, about 100 metres away from Isheri-Oshun Police station in the Igando-Ikotun Local Council Development Area.

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