SATURDAY, July 14, 2012 is a day Dr. Afolabi Daniyan says he will never forget. The medical practitioner has his reason which borders on a recent bitter experience he and his wife had in the hands of some soldiers on guard duty at the Ikeja Cantonment of the Nigerian Army.

THE role of Nigerian media in monitoring and reporting diplomatic activities took the centre stage last week in Lagos when the country’s ambassador to the United States, Prof. Ade Adefuye, carpeted the fourth estate of the realm for its negative portrayal of the recent visit of U.S. Secretary of State, Mrs. Hilary Clinton, to Abuja.

SO strong was the JAC’s influence and so successful was this strike that four months later, the traditionally conservative unions in the education sector formed their own JAC, and went on a country-wide strike “for the first time in the history of Western education in Nigeria.”

This is the ninth edition of the serial on OWEI LAKEMFA’s latest work: “One hundred years of trade unionism in Nigeria”. The eighth part was published yesterday.

1964 was a momentous year for the Labour Movement; it was the year multiple general strikes were held. Labour leaders openly called for the overthrow of the Tafawa-Balewa government, with some trade unionists actually planning a coup d’etat.

ALHAJI Ali Chiroma was the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) at the worst possible period in our history.

At a trying time like this, there are two things President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan needs – patience and good luck. Patience in that he would need to wait till after the US elections to know whether that country’s government would change its position on designating the Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna Lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, as a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANISATION, FTO; and good luck, that things don’t spiral out of control before then.

When people are sick, they go to hospital for medical attention, but, in the case of Abubakar Buba, a native of Maciyar Kuka Village Bununu district in Tafawa Balewa local government area of Bauchi state, he was sick and went to hospital. But his condition deteriorated instead of improving.

Since the struggle for the actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra began, one personality that had been synonymous with it was Chief Ralph Uwazurike, leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.

For the Ijaws, the fourth largest ethnic nationality in the Nigerian federation, Wednesday signing into law of the Bayelsa symbols and seal by Governor Seriake Dickson was a welcome development.