One of Nigeria’s leading private secondary schools, Westminster College, Lagos, is commencing a university foundation programme in collaboration with the University of Buckingham, UK, starting this October 2009, for which it has taken admission drive to the South-South geo-political zone with Warri as the main centre.

The protracted infighting at the Nigeria French Language Village (NFLV), Ajara, Badagry, an inter-university centre for French studies, between the Director-General, Professor Sam Aje-led management and academic staff has taken a frightening dimension when an investigation panel set up to look into the dispute was allegedly prevented from sitting on arrival.

By Kingsley Adegboye Lagos City Hall, the foremost seat of     local government council administration in Nigeria which got burnt some years ago is now wearing a new look. The total reconstruction of the Lagos Island Local Government Secretariat and finishing with the state of the art building materials have transformed the edifice into an […]

By Evelyn Usman Remember  October 22, 2005, Bellview air crash which claimed a total of 117 passengers on board the ill fated Boeing 737-200 air craft? Remember also, that among those whose lives were sent to an unprepared grave by the crash which occurred shortly after take-off that fateful Saturday night, was the Chief Executive […]

*Only mega party can uproot them, he declares *Reveals how AD governors sold out to Obasanjo *Laments discord in Yoruba land In this second and concluding part of the Olu Falae’s interview, the presidential candidate of an alliance of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, and the All Peoples Party, APP, reflects on the 1999 Presidential […]

By Jimitota Onoyume Port Harcourt-EXCEPT one is told one will not know that the Federal Government College on Ikwerre Road, Port Harcourt houses reformed militants under the Federal Government’s amnesty programme. At the main gate leading into the school you find a handful of gate men. Contrary to expectation that they would be on red […]

The school of part time studies brings in so much money. Even the Vice Chancellor has said the part time school is the goose that lays the golden eggs. But again, where is the money. What is being done to better the lives of people in LASU?

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.