By Awa Kalu The Agbakoba case, supra, found its way to the Supreme Court [See Director, SSS v. Agbakoba (1999) 3 NWLR (Pt. 595) 314]. At the Supreme Court, Onu JSC, in a concurring opinion stated as follows: “In the United Kingdom, for instance, the Court of Appeal observed that ‘the grant or refusal of […]

A woman of many parts, she has for six years now been the national president of the Business and Professional Women, BPW. Mrs. Tinuade Oni Ihama, in this interview, unveils all it takes to be successful in business and talks about all that BPW has been able to put in place under her leadership, among sundry issues. Her words:

When the Sunborn Yatch Hotel, a floating hotel facility, berthed at the Marina waterfront recently, it elicited a lot of excitement among many Lagosians. Many saw it as a spectacular sight to behold, especially it was the first hotel of its kind to float on water in Nigeria.

By Bolaji Owasanoye A number of factors were identified as stifling investments, economic growth and robust business practices in Nigeria. These factors hinder local and foreign investment in core areas such as infrastructure provision, agriculture, real estate to mention a few. One notable feature is the inadequacies or absence of modern laws in virtually all […]

LEADERS of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), met a few days ago in Lagos, to review the state of the nation. Under the umbrella of its National Executive Council (NEC), among others, leaders of ASCSN appraised the socio-economic and political situations in the country and concluded that the nation is retrogressing.

ORGANISED labour and its civil society allies, under the umbrella of Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), will today in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) stage a mass protest to protest government planned full deregulation of the down stream oil sector among others.

THERE is no hiding place anymore for the embattled Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU) Professor Lateef Akanni Hussain whose fate now hangs in the balance as academic, non-academic unions and students are pushing for his removal over sundry allegations which included maladministration, financial and academic frauds, obstinacy and arrogance among others.

THE University of Lagos International School is embarking on massive generation of fund required to execute capital projects for improvement of existing facilities, according to Otunba Dipo Dina, chairman, PTA of the school, at a press briefing in Lagos, yesterday, attended also by Professor Bidmo’s Chairman Management Board, Dr. Oladipo, acting Principal, Staff and other PTA executive officers.

One of the new strategies being employed by the Federal Government to widen access of children to education is the provision of opportunity for special needs learners. Not many public and private schools in Nigeria today are taking steps to make special arrangement with these slow learners who cannot learn at the same pace as their classmates. As such, the slow learners in these schools often find themselves neglected and abandoned, and eventually drop out.

To mark its Seventh Anniversary, Covenant University, Ota, presented 25 computer systems with printers, internet connectivity and other back up facilities with one year anti-virus license, to two secondary schools as part of Community Development Impact Initiative Outreach to community schools in Ota; recently.

The poor quality of the country’s education system has been blamed on the government, parents and other stakeholders in system. Speaking to Vanguard Education, the Proprietor of Leader Group of School, Kirikiri. Apapa Lagos, Captain Charles Avneghagha blamed the rot in the country’s education system on the government, parents lecturers and school owners.

Our behaviour determines the kind of response we get. Your words may even determine if you will get a positive or a negative response in an interactive process.

Due to the strenuous and demanding nature of their job, many policemen barely find time to visit the hospital to seek medical attention for such common ailments as malaria and typhoid even when they are down with symptoms that indicate that they have been so infected.

It was a case of one man’s misfortune being another man’s blessing at the Ifesowapo Iron Market, along the Lagos-Badagry expressway, at Orile Iganmu.

The desperation on the part of many Nigerians to travel out of the country is believed to have reached an alarming level in recent times.