THE alarming rate of violent   crime, especially  kidnapping, in the country in recent times, particularly in the South East has compounded the already frightening insecurity situation in the area. In 2007 at a mild stage of kidnapping, a black and two Chinese expatriates brought into the country to enforce the local manufacturing of vehicles, courtesy […]

By Udemezu Sylvester The view has of late been canvassed that the Nigerian judicial system, by its very nature, constitutes a major hindrance to the war against corruption and other financial crimes in the country. It is said that when the corruption cases are taken to court, they experience all forms of applications that bring […]

By Uche Anichukwu Two major opinions have been peddled by the media and the Conference of Nigeria Political arties, CNPP ever since the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu spoke at a press conference on the Senate’s action plan for the amendment of the 1999 Constitution. The areas of grouse include two statements credited to Ekweremadu […]

By Betty Irabor The life and times of late Mrs. Madeline Chinyelu Obanye holds aloft the torch of tenderness, passion and justice, even in death; and leaves us with no option than to celebrate the exit into greater and divine glory of a national icon and a stellar model to all of us. Like the […]

The Anambra state governorship election has again become a subject of litigation before our court, this time, before the Court of Appeal, Enugu at the instance of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and Governorship candidate of the party in Anambra state in the 2007 general elections, Dr Andy Uba, who was just a Governor for […]

As the UN General Assembly meets this week in New York, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to urgently  and publicly commit Nigeria to the ratification of the new UN Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” The Protocol, adopted by the UN […]

FACTS emerging from factories across the country indicate that employers avid for profit at all cost is rapidly compounding their care free attitude to health and safety issues at work places. Almost on a daily basis, various degrees of industrial accidents are recorded, from minor to major injuries to employees.

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, took a swipe at Nigeria’s leaders and political elites for the socio-political and economic decline of the country, including the reckless, wanton violation of the people’s rights, while speaking Sunday night at the centenary banquet to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of King’s College, Lagos.

As the 2009 edition of the Maltina National Reading Competition kicks off on September 30, 2009 with principals conducting the school examination in their respective schools across the country, Nigerian Breweries Plc, recently, in Lagos, explained that the competition was designed to improve the reading culture of Nigerian youths.

In line with the yearnings of university students, thousands of admissions-seeking candidates and their parents for an end to the three-months old hostility between the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU and the Federal Government, the former has reiterated its readiness to return to the negotiating table.