Frederick Douglass, the African-American social reformer, writer and statesman said that “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free,” while Kofi Atta Annan, seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, opined that “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”

FOLLOWING complaints of sexual harrassment and eventual sack by her management, a former Enterprise Marketing Manager of Microsoft Nigeria Limited, Mrs Ejieke Maduka, headed for the National Industrial Court (NIC) for justice. She had alleged that she had been sexually harassed by her immediate boss.

It is contrary to the provisions of the fundamental rights to prosecute a person on matters that are not criminal but civil. Today, instead of some law enforcement agents advising a complainant to explore civil court, cases that are civil are clothed with unimaginable criminal elements, all in a bid to prosecute the suspect and restrain his liberty. In some cases, land and tenancy matter end up in our criminal court as threat to life of the landlord, break and entry against the tenant, recovery of debt becomes obtaining under false pretences, land matter becomes threat to life etc,

THE Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, has arrested a traditional high chief (Baale) for alleged land grabbing.

Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow for 2001-2002, Dr. Benedicta Chiwokwu Agusiobo, recently received the Distinguished Educator in Nigeria award from the Education Times, a monthly education magazine.