By Evelyn Usman OZDE plaza, located on  Osolo way in Ajao area of  Lagos, was last December thrown into commotion following a noisy verbal confrontation from one of the shops. When inquisitive traders thronged shop 5f where the noise  came from, a rattled Bureau-de-change operator was seen arguing with owner of the shop, one Mrs […]

By Awa  Kalu Within the week, Nigeria as a country had a low key celebration to mark the 49th anniversary of its political independence from our colonial masters.  Perhaps, the anniversary was celebrated without fanfare or pomp and pageantry in acknowledgment of the global and widespread economic crisis that is top on the agenda of […]

By Innocent Anaba Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the Centre for Defence of Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CDHRDA) have asked the ECOWAS Court of Justice sitting in Abuja,  to stop the Gambian government and the ECOWAS Commission from amending the laws concerning the jurisdiction and access to the Community Court. The […]

September 28, has been globally set aside as the World Right to Know day to promote and enhance the right to information as the basis of open and democratic government. The day was celebrated last Monday and Nigeria was not left out. However, there are issues regarding the celebration that need to be addressed, particularly […]

By Abdulwahab Abdulah The new Lagos State Chief Judge,(CJ) Justice Inumidun Akande has said the state judiciary under her tenure will have zero tolerance for corruption, indolence and negligence. Justice Akande also in an interview at the ceremony for the 2009/10 new legal year,  promised to embark on massive reforms in the state judiciary, especially […]

By Emmanuel Majebi 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 […]

THERE is likely to be some light at the end of the tunnel as both feuding university unions and government may be returning to negotiations more than three months into the strike that grounded universities, with pupils and students in public primary and secondary schools in 19 states not able to resume schooling.

The announcement by the Lagos State government towards the end of last week that school children should resume at their schools on Monday this week as primary and secondary school teachers were not on strike gave the impression that the state government had managed to forge an amicable settlement with its teachers who started a strike action two weeks earlier over the non-payment of the 27.5% Teachers’ Special Allowances.

By Chioma Obinna When a parent becomes sick and dies,  the child is usually affected in several ways that could leave  him/her traumatised leading to emotional, physical and mental distress that could undermine that child’s overall health and development. Unfortunately, the 2.5 million Nigerian children orphaned by AIDS(excluding the ones in the Niger Delta areas […]

Ten public schools within Ibadan metropolis in Oyo State are the latest beneficiaries of the Multichoice Resource Centre project, an educational project which is designed to grant the beneficiary schools access to an Educational Bouquet that comprises of seven channels on the DSTV Bouquet.

Salem University, Lokoja has left no one in doubt of its determination to continually do justice to its total leadership training concept which is meant to make out of its students effective leaders, nation-builders as well as job creators.

By Bose Adebayo THE young lady was obviously pre-occupied with her thoughts and so did not notice the woman and the powerfully built man approaching her at a rapid pace. She had just crossed the busy expressway and was heading towards a row of commercial  buses presumably to board a bus. She was soon confronted […]

Traditionally, every independence day anniversary,  presents an opportunity to evaluate the journey so far. Perhaps readers of independence celebration stories, may predict what to read from all the  national dailies tomorrow. Your prediction or guess may be as good as mine, as each October 1, brings to fore the tragedy that Nigeria appears to have […]

By Chioma Obinna LAGOSIANS  have witnessed many a tragic incident at the popular Cele Bus-stop along the Oshodi – Apapa Express way, but nothing to compare with the gory scene of last Saturday September 26 that has become the latest tale of sorrow, tears and regret in Lagos. For many of those who witnessed the […]

The story of Taiye Ebele Mbakwe (39), a native of Umuleri-Mbakala in Abia State sounds like the rested NTA kiddies show, tales by the moonlight. The father of two who lives at Number 49, Shifau Street, Ojuelegba, Lagos operates an electronic shop in front of his house with his twin brother, Kehinde.