By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Daniel Emeribe Alhaji Nojeemdeen Adebayo Ibrahim, is the Lagos State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP). At a recent a celebration of the Pensioners’ Day, he spoke to Pension and You on the challenges facing pensioners and how banks are compounding their plight. Excerpts. How would you appraise the […]

The authorities of the Fountain University, Osogbo have given scholarship to 38 students of the institution for the 2008/2009 academic session.

The resumption date presented the school children the opportunity to reminiscence on their experiences during the four-week holiday. As recounted by the school children, many of them were unable to travel during the holiday due to fuel scarcity. In fact, the fuel crisis hampered movement within the Lagos metropolis so much so hat the number of children at the various amusement parks that dot the city of Lagos reduced drastically when compared with the figure recorded during the previous yelutide seasons.

Hundreds of school-going children as well as their counterparts who are out of school gathered last Saturday at Oto area of Lagos State for an awareness programme organised by the Community Art Development Initiative (CADI), a non-governmental organisation.

The Bachelor of Dental Surgery and Bachelor of Nursing Science programmes in the Lagos State University College of Medicine, Ikeja will soon take off as the Resource Assessment Visitation of the National Universities Commission (NUC) has visited the College.

As the commercial bus took off from Oshodi heading towards Mushin, a middle aged woman, Madam ‘Lara Kukoyi suddenly gave vent to her astonishment. She was surprised at the recent beautification that has taken place at the ever-busy Agege Motor Road.

THE Nigerian Church has, not without reason, come under intense vilification in recent times with its leadership accused of taking advantage of the pervading poverty in the land to hoodwink cash-strapped citizens, in want of miracles, who easily enrich the Church with their widow’s mite, while the pastors lead very flambouyant lifestyles.

*Says section 143 is the only option before National Assembly *Manner of president’s absence is cause of confusion *Declares: ‘Nigerians are watching’ Olorunimbe Mamora is a two-time senator. Before going to the Senate, he was Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly where his four-year tenure was marked by exceptional leadership. Therefore, when Senator […]

Those who were to help us raise the money said no problem, that even if we needed N1trillion, they would raise it. But there was a condition which they gave and that was that the foundation cannot be a Presidential committee. They said they could not give their money to such foundation except it is purely a private foundation that is run by a committee, by the private sector people that would be accountable to them.

After I spent one month in the cell and paid N500, 000 and the trial, some officers asked me to keep quiet, that if I said anything or tried to fight the system, they would rope me into one criminal charge and send me to prison.