The controversy that trailed President Goodluck Jonathan’s Democracy Day national broadcast announcing the decision to rename the prestigious University of Lagos after late Chief Moshood Abiola, acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 presidential election, but annulled by the military regime at that time, may not be resolved for a long time as major stakeholders have vowed to resist the change.

The Nigerian people, accustomed to life with frequent interrupted power supply at homes and business places, except those few having private generators, are suddenly to pay more for electricity as a new tariff regime comes into effect on June 1, 2012.

For Sesan Gbadamosi, an alumni of UNILAG and proprietor, Bell Time School, renaming the institution is an improper step taken by the Federal Government. “UNILAG is an old institution of 50 years and it is not proper to put down the reputation of the institution.

AROUND this period seven years ago, Nigerians were in a joyful mood because former President Olusegun Obasanjo had successfully liquidated Nigeria’s estimated $30b external debt.

In an exclusive interview with Sola Ogundipe and Chioma Obinna, the State Chairman of the Lagos State Chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Edamisan Temiye calls to question the relevance of governance and state government’s credibility on the issue of agreements.

IN September 2009, following several years of negotiations between the Nigerian Medical Association and the Federal Government, the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale, CONMESS, circular SWC/S/04/S.410/220 was released by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission. CONMESS is a uniform salary structure initiated by the Federal Government for all doctors in the country.

The workings of their minds may never be known. General Abdulsalami Abubakar’s Provisional Ruling Council, PRC, had an idea of what Nigerians wanted and was very eager and willing to give it to them.

It was a sharp twist for a people repeatedly classed as the happiest people on earth. Nigerians were said to like life so much that they would rather suffer brutal dictators than allow themselves to be inconvenienced by tear gas from demonstrations against bad government. But no longer.

THE 2011 general polls presented interesting scenarios. Those, who got elected had to wage a series of battles on many fronts – intra-party, inter-party and at the law courts.

A look at the direction of the Jonathan administration indicates that the government has good intentions of transforming the nation’s economy.