THE workers’ long journey to the N18,000 minimum wage, which the Senate passed into law on Tuesday, February 22, started long before the late President Musa Yar’Adua, on July 14, 2009, through the then Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Mahmud Yayale Ahmed, inaugurated a tripartite Presidential Committee on National Minimum Wage, headed by Chief Justice Alfa Modibbo Belgore

ALL is not well at Nigeria’s premier social club, the Island Club, Lagos. A deep-seated battle for the control of the lever of power has divided the once famous and united club into at least three camps.

At a time when all should well set for the April elections, the political class is again living its folly to the fullest Presently, there are about 50 cases in court, a plethora of exparte orders and interlocutory injunctions to boot, underhanded tactics of blackmail by politicians and a polity yet to fully recover from the shenanigans of pro and anti-zoning elements. This report takes a look at the undercurrents in the polity and concludes that with just two months to the general elections, the political class would need to conduct itself in a matured and less combustible manner, hoping that the judiciary would not be a willing tool in the yet unfolding macabre drama called Nigeria’s elections

The story is about how President Goodluck Jonathan is trying to manage the embarrassment that the Ogun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is creating as a result of the double lists of candidates for the April general elections. It is also about the resolve of Governor Gbenga Daniel who is pitted against former President

It’s been tales of agony, frustration and untold hardship in the lives of patients who have been abandoned by doctors in the government owned hospitals in Lagos state.