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Poll: Does court have powers to review INEC’s discretion to cancel election?

Poll: Does court have powers to review INEC’s discretion to cancel election?

By Ise-Oluwa Ige In the last two years, not less than 20 lawsuits were filed in different inferior and regular courts of record in the country by some political parties and their candidates to invalidate the gubernatorial poll held in Imo on April 28, 2007. The said election produced Dr Ikedi Ohakim of the Progressive […]

Saved from the jaws of death

Saved from the jaws of death

By Godfrey Bivbere When Lt. Commander Tanko Ibrahim finished preparing for work that fateful morning and bid his  family goodbye as he drove out of his Close B, House 9, Navy Town Ojo residence, little did he know what danger awaited him. He had decided to visit some of the boys working for him around […]

Pro-Chancellor calls for speedy resolution of ASUU strike

Pro-Chancellor calls for speedy resolution of ASUU strike

Isekhure, who is also the Chief Priest to the Oba of Benin, fielded questions from newsmen in Benin yesterday on the on-going nationwide strike embarked upon by ASUU over the failure of the federal government to implement an earlier agreement it reached with the body and said there was no need for the government to have entered into any negotiation with the university teachers if it knew it was not ready to implement such an agreement.

Prof Adewunmi proproses summit to  discuss plight of workers

Prof Adewunmi proproses summit to discuss plight of workers

“Unions without unionism: Towards trade union relevance In Nigeria’s industrial relations system and polity”, was theme of an inaugural Lecture delivered recently, Professor Funmi Adewunmi, at Crawford University, Ota, Ogun State, where the erudite scholar chronicled the emergence of trade unions and unionism, the relevance of unionism in the present day reality and the challenges facing trade unionism of today

Mathematics of World Cup qualification

Mathematics of World Cup qualification

If Mike Eneramo has not missed that cross in the dying minutes, Nigeria would have scored. But I’m sure that by the time they come to Abuja, they will use basket to carry the goals we will score against them,” he boasted, waxing more and more confident.
A parliamentarian Francis Igwe, however, disagreed with him.

Banks swoop on NITEL’s pensioners as biz centre rips them off

Banks swoop on NITEL’s pensioners as biz centre rips them off

By Victor Ahiuma-Young THE Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) Sports Complex, Bode Thomas, Surulere, Lagos, has since last week been a beehive of activities as thousands of pensioners, disengaged and serving staff of troubled Nigeria Telecommunication (NITEL) Plc, endure the eagle-eye scrutiny of officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), […]

Football and fatalities: How not to be a fan in Nigeria

Football and fatalities: How not to be a fan in Nigeria

The game of soccer, football as it is known in America, helps to bring together, people from  different backgrounds.  Through this sport barriers created by ignorance or prejudice, are   broken down. Despite the beauty of football, gangsterism has become associated to it, especially in Africa. Why does the game attract violence  more than other  sports? […]

Sadness and joy of  the new look Cele expressway

Sadness and joy of the new look Cele expressway

By Bose Adebayo Possibly in a matter of months, the new over-head bridge being constructed by the Lagos State government at Cele Bus-stop along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway will be completed. Work from every indication is progressing at a rapid pace which suggests an early completion of the project. Part of this indication is the sacking […]

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