Lagos state being a commercial and industrial state in Nigeria with major ports of entry and exit on Tuesday 29 th October 2013 held a glamorous public lecture which was organized in commemoration of Hon prince Adetoyese Adio Olusi, vice chairman of Lagos island local government. The public lecture, which was graced by friends of Toye, Mrs. Salau- Bashua representing senator Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, Alhaji FA Adekunle APC party chairman lagos island, Hon. Opeyemi Akindele chairman Lagos island local government and guest speaker Hon. Fouad Oki who spoke on the topic “ democratic representation in a fledging and emerging megacity.” Speaking at the event, former commissioner 1in the lagos state civil service commission, Hon Fouad Oki revealed that nothing that has been said and done in Lagos that has never been done and said. “I have seen the lagoon by the side of a lake Alfred Lekins said and from that point coming to date Lagos has been seen in commerce, trade and economics. It i...

Nemesis has caught up with eight fake members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, after they were arrested, charged to court  and ordered to be remanded in prison custody. Chief Magistrate Ramatu Gulma of the Wuse Zone 2 Magistrates’ Court on Thursday also directed the Defence Counsel, Mrs Ijeoma Utchay, to apply formally for the bail of the accused, and adjourned the case till 25 November for hearing. The chief magistrate also ordered for a one-week hearing on the case, starting from 25 November, to ease the transportation of the accused as they do not reside within the FCT. The accused are Agatha Azuma, Amarachukwu Okoro, Nicholas Eze, Blessing Samuel, Wisdom Nwoke, Paulyn Worgu, Cordelia Ugwuata and Blessing Duru. The Prosecutor, Mr Moses Idakwo, of the State Security Service (SSS), objected to the bail application. He said that the first accused, Azuma, had, on 21 January, presented herself to Patrick Orem, a mobilisation officer at the National Youth ...

Tired of staying at home, hundreds of Bayero University, BUK, students in Kano, northwest Nigeria, on Thursday, staged a peaceful protest, and gave the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, one week to resolve their issues or face the wrath of Nigerian students. The students also called on President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to increase the annual budget for education to 26 per cent, insisting that doing so will solve the myriad long-term challenges facing Nigerian universities. According to them, ASUU would not be asking for too much if they insist on the full implementation of the 2009 ASUU/FG Agreement, which to their views, will bring about the required face-lift needed in the universities across the country. Comrade Sani Ibrahim President of Students Union Government, SUG, BUK chapter said Nigerian students must register their disappointment over government’s insensitivity to their well-being, adding, “we decided to take this action be...

A former presidential candidate of the Alliance for Democracy, Chief Olu Falae, on Tuesday in Lagos warned that corruption might “sink Nigeria’’ if it was not tackled headlong. Falae spoke at the public presentation of a book titled “Post Independence Political Evolution of Western Nigeria: Chief Obafemi Awolowo Factor.’’ The News Agency of Nigeria   reported that the book was written by an octogenarian, Pa Adio Mosanya, a former youth leader of the defunct Action Group. Falae, who described corruption as endemic, called for a concerted effort by Nigerians to stamp out the scourge. “In state and federal government agencies, senior civil servants are now businessmen and women and have incorporated their own companies.  “The best imposing edifices and buildings are built by serving public and civil servants that did not take loans from banks. “This (corrupt practices) should stop so that we can move forward as a country. “Public office holders should...

The seemingly unending Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike is beginning to take a toll on students, the fact that students now resort to seeking job opportunities in private and public sectors as part time workers or freelance workers is becoming a source of worry. Reports have revealed that the number of students seeking job opportunity is high since the strike commenced as some students are employed on grounds of internship. Students affected by the ongoing strike laments that they have to engage themselves in activities that would yield them lawful earnings as they have been idle in their homes with their expectation and hope of the impasse between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), reconciliation fades gradually. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has linked the rising wave of crime in the last two months to the idleness of students, who are currently bearing the brunt of the impasse between the F...

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has described his successor, Farida Waziri, as a liar in response to Mrs Waziri's claim that Mr. Ribadu served under her. Mr Ribadu, on Thursday, stepped into a controversy generated by a series of interviews conducted by the media unit of the EFCC with past and present government leaders and officials. In one of the interviews, published in the commission's magazine, Zero Tolerance, former President Olusegun Obasanjo questioned Mrs. Waziri's qualification as head of the EFCC, and said her tenure severely reversed Nigeria's gains in anti-corruption war under Mr. Ribadu. The comments drew a fierce response from Mrs. Waziri who accused the former president of manipulating the EFCC with Mr. Ribadu as his tool, to seek a third term in office. She defended her competence for the job by citing a string of academic and professional qualifications, amongst which she clai...

Though most stores have security apparatuses to check theft, the loss of customers’ belongings on the premises of some shopping malls, questions the reliability of the security in place, writes GBENGA ADENIJI Anybody who goes to a shopping centre with the aim of carrying out a sinister agenda may have a change of mind when he or she reads the notice: “These premises are under 24-hour CCTV surveillance.” The fear may even increase when one beholds a retinue of smartly-dressed guards frisking customers as they enter and leave the malls. The kind of internal security available in these shopping malls is also obtainable in banks where it is prohibited to make and receive calls inside the banking halls. At car parks provided for customers in some of the malls, guards are usually seen patrolling every nook and cranny to ward off any attempt by hoodlums to break into any of the vehicles, even though it is sometimes written in bold letters that ‘cars are parked at owners...