For many Nigerians as well as the global investment community, this is a welcome development – although nobody accustomed to the way this particular government works will heave a sigh of relief yet. The reasons are not hard to discover and the Minister provided some reasons for skepticism.

Nigerians especially, the teeming graduates who are roaming the streets in search of good jobs have reacted to the recent statement by the minister for finance, Dr Okonjo Iweala that our graduates are not employable. Some of them who spoke angrily to Saturday Vanguard said that it is very wrong for her to make such a pronouncement.

Hon. Avoseh Hodewu Suru, member Lagos State House of Assembly and Chairman House committee on Health representing Badagry constituency is the sponsor of the bill seeking to legalise voluntary cremation and unclaimed corpse in the state.

Universities everywhere, and Nigeria not different, are established to carry out tripartite roles of teaching, research and community services, thereby contributing meaningfully to the social, economic, cultural, political, scientific and technological development of the nation.

It is unimaginable to have the corpse of a beloved one cremated. It is antithetical to our culture, it is retrogressive and unacceptable.” these were the words of religious leaders, and residents in Lagos state reacting to the plan by state to legalise voluntary cremation of the dead and unclaimed corpses in the state.