The Vice-Chancellor of Caleb University, Lagos, Prof. Timothy.O. Tayo, has affirmed that staff empowerment via continuous training both locally and internationally remained a top priority of the university. In a release signed by Mr. Abimbola Olulesi, the Head of Public Affairs of the University, Prof. Tayo gave this assurance while declaring open a two-day in-service […]

By Jude Njoku Amukoko, Orile Iganmu, Badia and Ajegunle are unarguably some of the worst slum settlements in Lagos. Residents of these ghettos live under terrible sanitary conditions. The drainage channels are usually blocked with heaps of refuse which cause flooding at the slightest downpour. These ghettos provide a good hide-out for criminals while the […]

By Mike Ebonugwo IT is celebration galore in Ghana presently following the history-making victory of that country’s junior team, the Black Satellites, at the recently concluded Under-20 World Cup in Egypt. Ghanaians and indeed all Africans have every reason to celebrate the Black Satellites feat because this is the first time an African team was […]

By Evelyn Usman September 15, 2009 , was like every other day for the Adeyemi’s, as the bread winner Mr. Alabi Adeyemi left his Ajitadun abode in the ancient city of Abeokuta, Ogun state, bidding members of his family goodbye. As he was about leaving, his four-year-old daughter, Ayoka  clung to him in an apparent […]

•As govt empowers Police with patrol vans, APC By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government’s sustained  onslaught on insecurity in the state seems to be getting a special boost from corporate organisations who have enthusiastically embraced its Public Private Partnership (PPP) policy in the area of crime prevention and control.

By Mike Ebonugwo In Lagos, the fares charged by commercial vehicle operators are often a source of friction and quarrel between them and their passengers.

…As stakeholders seek refuge in Civil Defence By Bose Adebayo They often start their beat around twelve in the night. Some of them are armed with locally made guns while others, supposedly in a bid to fortify themselves, decorate their bodies with all manner of charms.

Foreign affairs minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, recently represented President Umaru Yar’Adua at the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. He fielded questions on Nigeria from members of the United Nations Correspondents Association in the UN Building. Excerpts: By Abayomi Adesida SOME African delegations are kind of upset by the fact that […]

With professorial confidence, Isa Aremu, vice president, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, fielded questions from Sunday Vanguard at his Textile Labour House office on ACME road, Lagos. It was the day we have come to describe as black Wednesday in Lagos when a seven-hour downpour sacked the State – the rains rendered virtually all roads in Lagos impassable.

It seems you are crying louder than the berieved by making a purely spiritual matter a subject for debate in the court of public opinion, especially your choice of words such as sack and reasonable which leave much to be desired. Though, so much has been said on the matter both in favour and against the stance of the church, but one thing is clear, the Word of God can not, in any case, be applied to suit our convenience.

Out of Two God had manifested One, the Man, Male and Female. This was what Adam confessed as God brought the ‘help meet’ to him; God did not give the “help” a name.

On Friday, October 6, 1995, between 8.15 and 8.30 am, five men in a Peugeot 504 car came to the premises of 79~year~old nationalist and one of the founding leaders of the then Action Group, Pa Alfred Rewane at 100, Oduduwa Crescent, G.R.A, Ikeja. At the gate, they told the gateman that they had a […]

Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Sani II (CON), is currently the Emir of Gumel in Jigawa state. He was a Commissioner of Information and Home Affairs in the defunct Kano State.

By Peter Duru Makurdi-Residents of Makurdi, the Benue State capital have continued to express outrage over the alleged rape of Mimidoo Tor, a three year  old girl by an HIV-positive-middle- aged man,  Cletus Egwu, who, in a bid to seek supernatural cure for his ailment,  allegedly raped the innocent victim who has also been infected […]

By Festus Okoye Suddenly, a cloud of fatalistic resignation has enveloped the leading lights of some civil society groups and organisa tions on the possibility or impossibility of electoral and constitutional reform before the 2011 elections. Prior to this period, some have been very upbeat and worked assiduously on very various electoral models that can […]