The Yusuf Grillo Hall, Art Complex of the Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, was filled with expectant and excited students of the College who were tired of government’s neglect and had come to take charge of their future and destinies at the Future Is Now seminar.

NEWLY elected President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, Bobboi Bala Kaigama, has spoken about his determination to work with the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and all TUC members as one family to lift up the living standards of Nigerian workers and other underprivileged groups in the country.

Pursuant to the first of June when the MTN declared a 21-day free teaching for public school students in Nigeria, its ICT facilitator went further last week to train over 200 teachers on the use of ICT to deliver lecture to students.

Dedicated to maintaining a policy of continuous investment in teaching and learning, human capital , infrastructure and environmental development, St. Saviour’s School, Ebute-Metta, recently commissioned a state-of-the-art building to punctuate her dedication to a standard educational venture.

Iganmode Grammar School, Ojuore, Ota, Ogun State made history last Thursday as they emerged winners of the 2013 Cowbell National Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition (NASSMAC) for the third year running.

The Rivers State Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence-Nemi has advised students to steer clear of friends that influence them negatively.

FOLLOWING the arrest, last week, of the owner of a Lagos-based hospital, Doctor Babawale Joshua for allegedly mutilating the corpse of a 13-month-old baby boy in his hospital, a 37-year- old woman identified as Cordelia Ifechukwude, has alleged that she suffered similar fate at the medical centre.

A popular saying has it that where two elephants fight, the grass suffers. This aptly describes the present state of Imowo-nla community in Ikorodu area of Lagos State where the land owners popularly called Omo-Oniles have taken the law into their hands, threatening the peace of this ancient community in the process.

I get sick to the pit of my stomach when I hear what Nigerians do in the name of religion,” said Mercy in the Oshodi-bound commuter bus as a radio presenter narrated how a couple was arrested for defrauding a man of over $13,000 and N500,000 in the name of delivering him from evil spirits. “This is sheer madness.”

A LAGOS based Legal firm, Abayomi Iyasele & Associates has petitioned the Inspector- General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, over alleged fraud by an estate agent (names withheld) who allegedly swindled a United States based firm the sum of N4, 499,00.00.