By Kingsley Adegboye & Olasunkanmi Akoni CALL it their day of glory, you probably will not be wrong. Afterall it is not everyday one gets to share the limelight with the chief executive of your state, the governor himself. As so while the ceremony lasted, the lucky kids were full of smiles. And who wouldn’t […]

By Fredrick Okopie For Christians, Sunday is a holy day of obligation, a day set aside for special worship of God based on Biblical injunction. As a result Sundays always find Christians of different denonminations converging in their respective places of worship to perform this sacred obligation. But beyond worshipping God, Sunday has also come […]

By Mike Ebonugwo No one could have expected what happened. In the first place most of the motorists and passengers in commuter buses were preoccupied with thoughts of how to get out of the slow-moving, bumper-to-bumper traffic between Ago Junction in Okota and Pako in Oke-Afa. The situation was worsened by some impatient motorists who […]

*Declares: President has only one option *‘Politicians are a big problem to Nigeria’ At a time like this it should not be a surprise that former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari, former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and immediate past Lagos State governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu are back, together, courtesy of opposition politics. And so, […]

Power is transient, it has moved, and I am happy that what I have seen in Imo State today is different from what used to happen, picking up personalities for destruction just because you saw them as political competitors

By Abdulwahab Abdulah Anthony George-Ikoli made headlines four years ago when he emerged the first Senior Advocate of Nigeria from Bayelsa state. Since then, George-Ikoli had gone further to become the first SAN to occupy the office of the Attorney-General of the state. It is a great challenge to this silk as he has to […]

By Innocent Anaba The Socio-Economic Rights & Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged US Secretary of State Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton to use her visit to Nigeria scheduled to begin on August 10 2009, to press the Nigerian government to exercise sufficient political will and good faith to fight high level official corruption in the country, […]

By Emmanuel Majebi It was a very tough decision for me to decide to write this article about the LCDA’s controversy especially when I find myself in a position where I do not for once agree with the Lagos state Government! The present Governor of Lagos State has performed well and is a breath of […]

By Kayode Matthew In other civilised climes, it is unheard of that someone who was not a candidate in an election could be declared the winner of that election by the electoral umpire. In Nigeria however, where nothing is impossible, the ‘winner’ will not only exploit the loopholes in the law to enable him remain […]

By Emmanuel Aziken When the Evidence Act was first enacted 64 years ago it neither envisaged the use of computer technology nor the use of mobile telephone text messages in fraud. It is thus not surprising that clear evidence of the use of computers and mobile phones remain inadmissible in Nigerian courts today. Rather, the […]

By Abdulwahab Abdulah Justice Augustine Adetula Alabi, the     chief judge of the High Court of Lagos     State will today (Friday) bows out of the judiciary after five years in saddle as the number one man in the state judiciary.  Justice Alabi, a native of Ido/ Ani in Ose local government area of Ondo […]

While acknowledging the National Policy on Education (revised 2006) as an elegant document which makes prescriptions for the conduct of the business of education in Nigeria, it should be re-engineered to embrace comprehensive computer education and introduce Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) as much as possible in the basic and higher education systems, Professor Peter Okebukola, Chairman, Governing Council, Osun State University, Osogbo and immediate past Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC) has recommended.

“We remind the primary six graduands as they leave, that we expect them to be role models, and to show examples as paragons of excellence wherever they go.

The nine lucky students, who emerged through draw from the 24 shortlisted nominees, are among scores of Nigerian students whose applications to universities in the UK are being processed by PFL.

At a meeting of leaders of NASU in the 42 federal, state universities and inter-university centres, which held at the University of Lagos, leaders of NASU argued that besides the fact that the 20% salary award was discriminatory, lower than what was awarded to other category of workers in the system, it was not a product of negotiation, the issues at stake were more than salary but about the funding of the university system, about failing and decaying infrastructure among other things.