The popular Orishirishi joint, a beer parlour in Iranwo area of Ikorodu was recently in the news following the death of a customer right inside the beer parlour. The alleged assailant, a private security man, one Sampson Olu Felintin, is currently explaining to detectives at the dreaded State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID),Panti, Yaba, Lagos how it all happened.

AS Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark the United Nations Day Against Illicit Drug Trafficking and Abuse on Friday June 26, the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ahmadu Giade has said that Nigeria is winning the war against illicit trafficking in hard drugs.

The spate of kidnaping in Edo state has remained unabated in the past few months. About thirty persons have been kidnaped and freed in the last two months and several millions of naira was paid to their captors. Majority of the victims are bankers but because of the safety of these victims ,the matter is treated quietly.

South Africa recently held its Election without the storm of protest that usually trails elections in places like Nigeria. Mrs Papela a member of the South African electoral Commission told Saturday Vanguard in an interview recently what they do to electoral offenders. Enjoy it.

By Abdulwahab Abdulah Senator Sikiru Ayodeji Shitta-Bey, a lawyer and front-line politician is one man that would not be prevented by his old age  from carrying out his daily practice of law and politics. In his days as politician, he was elected as a member of the Federal House of Representatives and a Senator of […]

By Awa Kalu Like darkness, the sad upsurge of kidnapping has enveloped with ease, certain parts of this country. According to H.Loewy (Criminal Law in a Nutshell (2nd ed.1987), ‘at early common law, kidnapping required asportation of the victim to another country.

By Emmanuel Majebi The Chief Justice of Nigeria or the Chief Judge of a State against whom an allegation of inability to misconduct or contravention of the code of conduct has been made under this section shall be entitled to defend himself in person or by a Legal practitioner of his own choice before the […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige In the last two years, not less than 20 lawsuits were filed in different inferior and regular courts of record in the country by some political parties and their candidates to invalidate the gubernatorial poll held in Imo on April 28, 2007. The said election produced Dr Ikedi Ohakim of the Progressive […]

By Godfrey Bivbere When Lt. Commander Tanko Ibrahim finished preparing for work that fateful morning and bid his  family goodbye as he drove out of his Close B, House 9, Navy Town Ojo residence, little did he know what danger awaited him. He had decided to visit some of the boys working for him around […]

Isekhure, who is also the Chief Priest to the Oba of Benin, fielded questions from newsmen in Benin yesterday on the on-going nationwide strike embarked upon by ASUU over the failure of the federal government to implement an earlier agreement it reached with the body and said there was no need for the government to have entered into any negotiation with the university teachers if it knew it was not ready to implement such an agreement.

In 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt, so strong was the Catholic position against abortion as a family planning device  that the Confab was dubbed ‘The Abortion Conference’.

“Unions without unionism: Towards trade union relevance In Nigeria’s industrial relations system and polity”, was theme of an inaugural Lecture delivered recently, Professor Funmi Adewunmi, at Crawford University, Ota, Ogun State, where the erudite scholar chronicled the emergence of trade unions and unionism, the relevance of unionism in the present day reality and the challenges facing trade unionism of today

Nigeria and some members of the Internation al Labour Organisation (ILO) have given their support to the
proposed amendment to the ILO constitution

If Mike Eneramo has not missed that cross in the dying minutes, Nigeria would have scored. But I’m sure that by the time they come to Abuja, they will use basket to carry the goals we will score against them,” he boasted, waxing more and more confident.
A parliamentarian Francis Igwe, however, disagreed with him.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young THE Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) Sports Complex, Bode Thomas, Surulere, Lagos, has since last week been a beehive of activities as thousands of pensioners, disengaged and serving staff of troubled Nigeria Telecommunication (NITEL) Plc, endure the eagle-eye scrutiny of officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), […]