AS Nigeria continued to battle with the dwindling standard of education, parents have been identified as a major factor in tackling the problem as they have an incomparable privilege and responsibility to determine both direction and how far a child goes.

IMAGINE how safe life would be in Lagos if commercial bus drivers stop drinking ogogoro and segbe(locally distilled gin drinks). And imagine how safe the roads would be if drivers were educated enough to attend mandatory driving schools.

The lingering feud at the Nigeria French Language Village (NFLV) where academic and non-academic staff are demanding for the removal of the Director-General, a situation which has grounded the system, is causing serious concern to the Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai.

FOR a long time, informal sector workers who constitute the greater number of workers in Nigeria, had no umbrella body to propagate, promote and defend issues affecting them. Their activities and operations were seen un-coordinated. All that could be a thing of the past with the birth of the Federation of Informal Workers, FIWON.

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fasola (SAN) recently inaugurated a new Governing Council for the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Otto/Ijanikin. The new Governing Council is headed by Mrs. Adedamola Akran.

CAMPAIGN for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has condemned harrowing and dehumanising treatment of pensioners by both the federal government and state governments and called on Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC’s counterpart, to quickly intervene and defend the rights of the pensioners who spent their productive life to work the nation.

TWO Nigerians took a journey of discovery about the role of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) since its inception in 1986 and gave the Directorate a pass mark. Speaking in Gombe, the Governor of Gombe State Alhaji Dajuma Goje said that he turned to the NDE to make a living in his earlier business pursuit and benefitted immensely from the Directorate assistance in the late 80’s.

Ofonime Hanson Edwin, is a technician from Akwa Ibom state. He works as a technician in Hydro-tech company, a subsidiary of African Fertilizer, which manufactures alum, sulfuric acid and acid, located in Igbesa in Ogun state. Tragedy, occurred recently in his place of work, which resulted in his being confined to the hospital bed for a long period of time.

Principal of the Nigerian Turkish International College, Mr. Kamil Kemanci, in his welcome address said that for the graduating student and their ever supporting parents, the graduation ceremony marks the completion of the second stage in their march towards a successful life career.

Computer Warehouse Group, one of Africa’s most enterprising ICT companies will be constructing a building dedicated for the appreciation and development of Information technology at the University Of Lagos.
This was disclosed recently by the Group CEO, Austin Okere when he alongside his team, paid a courtesy visit to the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. A.B. Sofoluwe.