By September 1, the face-off between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will be exactly in its third month. Unlike previous strikes, this particular one is still in its infancy. Students have been known to do a four-year course in eight years.

RESIDENTS of communities in Ishielu Local government area of Ebonyi State are presently living in fear of an imminent disaster. Their fear derives from the belief that the Eguho-Ebonyi bridge in the area would soon collapse if urgent steps are not taken to either rehabilitate or reconstruct it.

This edition is the concluding part of the article by Comrade Salihu Lukman, a former assistant general secretary with the Nigeria Labour Congress on the inclusion of the National Minimum Wage on the concurrent rather than the exclusive list as it is now. The first part was published on August 1, 2013.

Professor Sadiq Suleiman Wali (OFR) is a consultant physician mainly in hepatology and gastroenterology and has interest in infectious diseases. In this chat with Vanguard Learning in Abuja, the former Kano State Commissioner for Health andChief Physician to five Nigerian ex-Heads of State, speaks on his research work in meningitis control, treatment and prevention. Excerpts:

Mixed reactions have trailed Federal Government’s allocation of the sum of $6.43 million (N1.03bn) to a Trust Fund for the delivery of quality literacy programme for an estimated 40 million illiterate Nigerians.

The Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, recently took another leap forward in the quest by African countries for specialised technical know-how in space technology when its management team, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adebiyi Daramola, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Regional Centre for Space Sciences and Technology Education in English (ARCSSTE-E), an affiliate of the United Nations.

THE Lagos office of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Yaba, venue of election of officials of the Federal Civil Servants, Lagos branch of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, last Friday, provided an avenuefor hundreds of pensioners to pour out their frustration and anger over years of unpaid pensions and other benefits.

The Vice-Chancellor, University of Port Harcourt, Professor Joseph Ajienka has stated that for Nigeria to actualise her Vision 20 – 2020, the government must invest massively in the creative industry saying, it is the fastest way to generate income.

Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Delta State have emerged winners in the 2013 Mobil/STAN National Science Quiz/Project Competition held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

Lagos State, in its resolve to foster immediate meaningful socio-economic development for the well being of the people of the state has successfully concluded a sensitisation workshop for stakeholders in the area of Research and Development in the state.