NLC Set for One-Day Industrial Strike over Pension Irregularities
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has mandated workers all over the country to embark on industrial action next Wednesday to protest the unsatisfactory administration of the pension industry, which has…
Counting the Cost of Nigeria’s Water
Not many Nigerians may know Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and fewer still would have any reason to. Born in 1772, he was an English poet who lived long before any notion…
Jonathan Succumbs to Pressure…Set to Grant Amnesty to Boko Haram
Bowing to large-scale public outcry, particularly from northern Leaders, President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday instituted a committee to consider the possibility of granting amnesty to members of the Boko Haram…
U.S. Professor Seeks International Intervention over Alamieyeseigha
A United States professor of law, Alexander W. Sierck has sent an appeal to the government of President Barack Obama through the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to employ…
Can APC cure Nigeria’s headache? (1)
As the merger of the country’s major opposition parties crystallized a few months ago into a mega party known as All Progressives Congress (APC), I received an email from my…
ACN Berates PDP for Arrest of Party Chairman in Ekiti
The arrest and subsequent transfer to Abuja of Chairman of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ekiti State, Chief Jide Awe following the death of an indigene of his hometown,…
Soku Oil Field: Rivers Withdraws from Talks, Sues Bayelsa
The long-drawn-out battle between Bayelsa and Rivers States for Soku Oil Fields has assumed another dimension with the latter’s decision to jettison peace talks for a law suit, an action…
ACN Decries Arrest of Ekiti Party Chairman
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as gross abuse of federal might and a blatant misuse of power, the decision to arrest and whisk to Abuja, the Chairman…
El-Rufai orchestrated NITEL’s Collapse – Stakeholders
Stakeholders of the abandoned Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) have put responsibility for the demise of the company squarely at the doorsteps of the former Director General of the Bureau for…
Falana threatens Fashola, Lagos Lawmakers over Tenure Elongation
A proposal to extend the term of office of local government chairmen in Lagos State from three to six years has invited the anger of frontline Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi…