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.

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.

About 400 public primary school teachers from different parts of the country have received training in literacy skills, numeracy skills and early childhood development.

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 […]

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.

Look, I get so amused with Nigerians about Nigeria and in their reaction to political issues, I believe we still have this Boy Scout attitude, this Boy Scout mentality about events. We forget yesterday, right. And we address today as if today did not emerge from yesterday and as if tomorrow is not going to come about.

By Ifeanyi Okolie Fear has gripped staff of the National  Space Research Development Agency (NASRDA) located in Epe, Lagos State, following rumours of gun running being peddled against some top management staff of the agency and threats that detectives are secretly working to unravel the veracity of the rumour. As a result of this ugly […]

By Evelyn Usman Judging by her frail frame   and innocent look, it   will be impossible to pass 26-year-old Miss Kemi Yisau for a frivolous individual. But the 400-level part-time student of the Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management of the Lagos State University (LASU) is currently in custody at the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) […]

We went to court and the court said no, that death penalty is Constitutional and the only way we can change it is to amend the Constitution

By Ise-Oluwa Ige, Just back from Banjul Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim is the incumbent Chief Justice of the Republic of the Gambia . He is one of the few Nigerian egg heads that had occupied the exalted seat. Before his appointment, June, this year, he had earlier served as the President of the Court of […]

By Awa Kalu A simple definition of ‘offer’ is the one made by Prof. Itse Sagay in his well known book, Nigerian  Law of Contract which makes an offer ‘a definite undertaking or promise made by one party with the intention that it shall become binding on the party making it as soon as it […]

By Femi Falana Public interest litigation is entrenched  in the administration of justice system in Francophone countries of West Africa. It has been said that “the representation of the public interest in a civil hearing is guaranteed by a special institution which is often known as the State Judicial Agency and which is headed by […]

DELIBERATIONS among delegates from all the states of the federation, who attended the just concluded convocation of Network of Educational Services Centres in Nigeria (NESCN) and the resuscitated National Festival of Instructional Materials (NAFIM) at Abuja, centred around the entrenchment of best practices in standards and quality assurance, which is one of the focal points of the Roadmap for Nigerian education sector.

Once again, the country’s attention has been drawn to the declining interest in reading exhibited by children which has become a challenge that must be taken seriously by institutional heads, teachers, parents and communities at large.

The Executive Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Mrs.Gbolahan Khadijat Daodu has called on all and sundry who love education and the future of the Nigerian children to rise up and emulate the good gesture of Amazing Edu-care Foundation, a non governmental organisation who recently presented one thousand uniforms to the pupils of Ajeromi/ Ifelodun Local Government Area.