Residents in Lagos, especially those residing around Okota and Itire areas of the state would soon heave a sigh of relief from the traffic congestion that afflicts that axis, leading to loss of precious man hours daily.

Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, is a renowned constitutional lawyer and leading human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner. He was one of the few who dared the military eye-ball to eye-ball during successive military juntas. He suffered many detentions in the process. Called to the Nigerian Bar 29 years ago, the author and notary public of Nigeria who was twice honored as Senior Advocate of the masses (SAM) by the Ogun State University Students Union (2000) and by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANs) (2005) and also honoureed by NANs in 2003 as a Senior Advocate of Nigerian Students (SANS) was only last week honored with the highest and prestigious title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). He is therefore entitled to wear the silk and sit at the inner bar.

The crisis which nearly erupted in the bowels of the Supreme Court on Monday April 12, in the course of the inauguration of ‘brand new silks’ had been brewing for a while. The recipe had been cast into the cauldron several weeks ago even though the sequence of events is now difficult to reconstruct.

We are in an era that has recorded monumental strides in science and technology the impact of which resonates through all aspects of our daily lives and endeavours. Discernible effects of globalization and technological development are easily gleaned from the way we communicate and relate with others through the use of Mobile telephones, Fascimiles, and Emails.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has granted leave to some shareholders of Thomas Wyatt Nigeria Plc, to challenge the purported sale of the company’s Abebe Village, Iganmu, Lagos head office to Leadway Assurance Company Plc, in which some directors of the company have interests.

Only a few Nigerians can still, perhaps, retain in their memories the event of July 16, 1999, no thanks to our collective malady of amnesia. So, what happened on July 16, 1999? A brief narration of the chain of events culminating in the said event of 16th July, 1999 under review may be necessary for a proper grasp of the lesson. The locale was in Adamawa State of Nigeria.

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) which now function as Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), for the first time since inception, held last Saturday its joint examination for students seeking admissions into universities, mono-technics, polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria.

With a few weeks to May Day popular among the working class as “ Workers Day”, trade unions around the world have lined up activities to mark May Day.

Professor Ademola Onifade of Lagos State University counsels the new education minister, Prof Ruqayyat Rufa’i: “With due respect to theminister, she is a Professor of Education and I want to believe that she should be aware of the environment where she will be working.

The Federal Government is committed to addressing the problem of mass unemployment in the country and would spare no effort in ensuring that programmes geared towards job generation and poverty alleviation get the priority it deserves. To attain this objective, the minister for labour and productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu called on the management of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to step up its activities