Foreign affairs minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, recently represented President Umaru Yar’Adua at the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. He fielded questions on Nigeria from members of the United Nations Correspondents Association in the UN Building. Excerpts: By Abayomi Adesida SOME African delegations are kind of upset by the fact that […]

With professorial confidence, Isa Aremu, vice president, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, fielded questions from Sunday Vanguard at his Textile Labour House office on ACME road, Lagos. It was the day we have come to describe as black Wednesday in Lagos when a seven-hour downpour sacked the State – the rains rendered virtually all roads in Lagos impassable.

It seems you are crying louder than the berieved by making a purely spiritual matter a subject for debate in the court of public opinion, especially your choice of words such as sack and reasonable which leave much to be desired. Though, so much has been said on the matter both in favour and against the stance of the church, but one thing is clear, the Word of God can not, in any case, be applied to suit our convenience.

Out of Two God had manifested One, the Man, Male and Female. This was what Adam confessed as God brought the ‘help meet’ to him; God did not give the “help” a name.

On Friday, October 6, 1995, between 8.15 and 8.30 am, five men in a Peugeot 504 car came to the premises of 79~year~old nationalist and one of the founding leaders of the then Action Group, Pa Alfred Rewane at 100, Oduduwa Crescent, G.R.A, Ikeja. At the gate, they told the gateman that they had a […]

Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Sani II (CON), is currently the Emir of Gumel in Jigawa state. He was a Commissioner of Information and Home Affairs in the defunct Kano State.

By Peter Duru Makurdi-Residents of Makurdi, the Benue State capital have continued to express outrage over the alleged rape of Mimidoo Tor, a three year  old girl by an HIV-positive-middle- aged man,  Cletus Egwu, who, in a bid to seek supernatural cure for his ailment,  allegedly raped the innocent victim who has also been infected […]

By Festus Okoye Suddenly, a cloud of fatalistic resignation has enveloped the leading lights of some civil society groups and organisa tions on the possibility or impossibility of electoral and constitutional reform before the 2011 elections. Prior to this period, some have been very upbeat and worked assiduously on very various electoral models that can […]

By Innocent Anaba A Lagos High Court has adjourned for judgement in the suit by widow of late Military Administrator of Lagos state, Air Commodore Gbolahan Mudasiru, Foluke, who is challenging the powers of the executors/trustees of her late husband estates. Late Mudasiru died in a London hospital on September 23, 2003. Four weeks after […]

There is a very worrying trend that is rearing its ugly head in many states of Nigeria. This trend sees many Governors expelling Nigerians from a state they have chosen to live and forcefully sending them back to their so called “States of Origin” for non-just cable reasons. For want of a better term to […]

In the run up to the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty,  tomorrow, Saturday, October 17, Amnesty International has called on world leaders and policy makers to change the debate on poverty from economics to addressing the human rights problems that impoverish and keep people poor. Amnesty’s Secretary General,  Irene Khan said,  “poverty is […]

One essential too of any legal practitioner who wants to be effective in advocacy is the law report. This is a publication of decided cases of superior courts to guide the judges in their decision of similar cases. Before the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi revolutionised the law reporting in Nigeria with his highly successful Nigeria […]

By Kayode Matthew A former staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company, Mrs Sheri King and her 17 year old son, Opeyemi King have filed an action against the oil company and one of its medical staff, Dr Fred Eigbe claiming N500 million jointly and severally for personal injuries, loss, pain and suffering caused by negligence […]

By Ebele Orakpo & Bose Adebayo Economic activitises were practically grounded in Lagos Wednesday as many offices in the burstling mega city were virtually empty as a result of the heavy downpour that started at about 5.00am in most parts of the state.  Most of the roads were flooded, thus hindering both human and vehicular […]

University students heaved a sigh of relief as respite came their way when the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) suspended its nearly four months old strike for two weeks “to enable a cordial atmosphere for the peaceful conclusion of negotiations” between it and the federal government.