As the UN General Assembly meets this week in New York, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to urgently  and publicly commit Nigeria to the ratification of the new UN Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” The Protocol, adopted by the UN […]

FACTS emerging from factories across the country indicate that employers avid for profit at all cost is rapidly compounding their care free attitude to health and safety issues at work places. Almost on a daily basis, various degrees of industrial accidents are recorded, from minor to major injuries to employees.

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, took a swipe at Nigeria’s leaders and political elites for the socio-political and economic decline of the country, including the reckless, wanton violation of the people’s rights, while speaking Sunday night at the centenary banquet to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of King’s College, Lagos.

As the 2009 edition of the Maltina National Reading Competition kicks off on September 30, 2009 with principals conducting the school examination in their respective schools across the country, Nigerian Breweries Plc, recently, in Lagos, explained that the competition was designed to improve the reading culture of Nigerian youths.

In line with the yearnings of university students, thousands of admissions-seeking candidates and their parents for an end to the three-months old hostility between the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU and the Federal Government, the former has reiterated its readiness to return to the negotiating table.

……aggrieved neighbors accuse police of cover-up By Ifeanyi Okolie Tears flowed freely last Sunday at Olodi Apapa area of Lagos when a middle-aged man had his eyes plucked off during a brawl with  a couple in their apartment.  The man identified as Cosmos Okoye, a native of Uke in Anambra State was said to have […]

By Bose Adebayo & Evelyn Usman WHEN the white Toyota Camry arrived with its six occupants  and parked in front of the single storey, four-flats building  painted in brown and butter colours,even curious neighbours did not notice anything to excite alarm. Time was about 7.15 a.m. that Sunday when two children from one of the […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni THIS could be celebration time to some individuals in Ikorodu as they are the lucky beneficiaries of a poverty alleviation gesture by the Lagos State government. As part of efforts to check youth involvement in crimes and other undesirable engagements which has been attributed to poverty resulting from lack of opportunities to […]

By Mike Ebonugwo The commercial bus left the popular Oshodi Bus-stop heading for Mile Two. It was initially an uneventful journey until  the conductor started demanding the mandatory fares from the passengers. Most of the passengers promptly paid the agreed fare except a woman with a little baby girl. Although the conductor had loudly announced […]

By Bose Adebayo A septuagenarian was lying ill in her one-room apartment and refused any attempt by her daughter to take her to hospital for treatment. She said her personal doctor would soon come to give her the necessary treatment at home. She was still speaking when a woman arrived with a basket on her […]

KELLY Omodia says: I read some of the comments on Pastor Bakare’s response to Pastor Ituah Ighodalo’ssack at RCCG. Instead of being sentimental and emotional about the issue, let the reader form his or her opinion from reading this with an open mind. Under what condition may a Christian divorce and remarry?

Last week, I showed you the various reasons why we must pray. We pray, among other things, for spiritual empowerment, divine mercy, divine help, angelic interventions, deliverance from afflictions, enforcement of prophecies, etc.

A NON denomiatioal Christian group, Christian Leadership Forum (CLF) has commenced a mobilization drive to install a God-fearing leadership in the country come 2011. The group which claimed at the weekend to have started prayer meetings for the purpose of “sanitizing the spiritual environment” affirmed that Nigeria could not develop its political and economic agenda until the leadership was cleansed of its pollution.

WORRIED by the confusion currently trailing the Federal Government’s amnesty package for Niger Delta militants, especially the recent allegation of plans to eliminate repentant freedom fighters in the creeks, Christians in the region have decided to resort to prayers for the resolution of the protracted crisis in the area.

May be, the way to start, is to say right from the day Dr. Mimiko was announced governor, he had made pronouncements, he had taken some actions; and one common trend that has run through all these, is some kind of obsession to run me down. And he has done nothing except to look for a way to run down the administration that I left behind.