Kehinde Olaosebikan is a renown journalist and presently the Chief Consultant of Midas Communication, a formidable reputation management firm based in the Federal Capital territory, Abuja. In this interview with Olayinka Ajayi, he shares the experience of his sojourn into journalism and politics.

HUNDREDS of underage children in Ogun State recently embarked on a protest against the Senate endorsed controversial child marriage bill, vowing to go on hunger strike if the lawmakers failed to retrace their steps and jettison the idea.

There was absolutely no spur to comment on the raging controversy of child marriage during the month of Ramadan basically because other issues relevant to the holy month and fasting remained inexhaustible. While preparing for the Eid yesterday, I recalled a number of people had sought my opinion and that of Islam on the issue, so, it became one of the issues staring at me on my table.

Ogun state is one of the states in the country which often experiece acute shortage of kerosene. People, especially women, go the extra mile to get the product, often at outrageous prices. The problem, according to findings, is more pronounced in the rural areas of the state which harbour majority of residents.

LAST week, Abia indigenes received with a wave of shock the news that the National Judicial Council [NJC] had ordered the immediate and compulsory retirement of the Acting Chief Judge of the state, Justice Shedrack Nwanosike, who according to the apex judicial disciplinary body falsified his age which Council said “invariably affected his retirement age”.

THE decision by the Senate to remove the National Minimum Wage from the exclusive legislative list and deregulate minimum wage has continued to attract wide condemnation by Nigerians and organized groups. The latest is by no fewer than eight public sector unions under the umbrella of the National Public Service Negotiation Council, which described the senators as anti-workers and self-serving.

The strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on July 1, 2013 has indeed tested the boundaries of student unionism. From the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to other realms of student activism, conflicting perceptions reflect students’ reaction to the ASUU strike. This report brings the different voices to the fore.

…acts on hard-to-diagnose, resistant form of leukaemia
Pamela Ovadje is a doctorate student in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Canada. She shot into limelight when she and her colleagues discovered the cancer-killing properties of Dandelion weeds (Taraxacum officinale.) She is following in her father’s footsteps.

…as 76 females graduate with first class from CU
In the wake of the recent controversies facing girl-child education in the country, the first female Vice-Chancellor of an African university, Prof. Grace Alele-Williams has stressed the need for quality education for the Nigerian girl.

The Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University, Prof. John Oladapo Obafunwa has expressed optimism and determination to eradicate what he termed the many years of rot in the university, which ranks the first amongst state universities and 11th amongst all the universities in Nigeria (National Universities Commission 2013 ranking).