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.

Explaining the reasons for establishing the University Foundation year programme in Nigeria while receiving the representative of the University of Buckingham in Lagos, the Director/Proprietor of Westminster College, Chief Johnson M. Barovbe, said that every year, the college sends out between 15 and 19 students to UK and USA universities to do the University Foundation course proceeding onto the main degree courses.

When the former 20 local government areas in Lagos State were broken into development areas under the tenure of former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, many Lagosians sighed with relief thinking this would aid or encourage rapid development.

By Lamidi Bamidele Recently, there was a lot of outcry over the deplorable state of the Apapa-Oshodi expressway that leads to  the major seaports in Apapa and Tin-Can Island. The outcry heightened  especially during the peak of the current rainy season when several sections of the road collapsed on account of flooding, consequently creating traffic […]

By Adekunle Adekoya VERY few Nigerians, except those who were planning it, contemplated that the nation would have to grapple with another orgy of violence, so soon after the mayhem that rocked Plateau and Bauchi States as year 2008 ended. Indeed, the commissions of enquiry unravelling the circumstances behind the Jos mayhem is yet to […]

*Says Atiku Abubakar financed Obasanjo’s campaign in 1999 *How I almost fought Abubakar Rimi For Okwesilieze Nwodo, the founding national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, his first love is medical practice.  And although he wanted to go back to Enugu to practise after his tenure as secretary of PDP, he explains that “the […]