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 *Estate Residents Can’t Be Compelled to Pay Dues; Court Rules* A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, has delivered a landmark judgement that Nigerians who live in a residential estate cannot be compelled to be a member of the Community Development Association (CDA) popularly known as residents’ association of estate. This decision of the Court has put an end to any future arbitrariness of resident associations in Nigeria. By this decision, payment of dues is now voluntary and forcing residents to be members has now been declared unconstitutional. Residents in Lagos State will no longer be subjected and compelled to pay outrageous membership dues and other levies. The judgement was delivered on Friday, 25th of September, 2020, by Honorable Justice Oweibo, sitting at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos. This suit *(FHC/L/CS/982/2020)* was filed by Megawatts Nigeria Ltd (Applicant) through its counsel Mr. Kayode Adeniji of Lawracles LP, against the Registered Trustees of Gbagada Pha...

Published by PUNCH  September 27, 2020 Jonah Jang   Jonah Jang, a former Plateau State Governor and ex-military governor of Benue and Gongola states, takes JAMES ABRAHAM back to the time Nigeria got independence and how things became worse You are in your 70s and was a teenager when Nigeria got independence, what was Nigeria like at the time? Nigeria was far better than what it is today. As a teenager in a secondary school then, I never paid school fees. I went to a boarding senior primary school. We used to have boarding junior primary schools from class 1-4 and senior primary schools from class 5-7. Here in Plateau State, every district had a junior primary and every province or division as it was called, had a senior primary school. Ours in Jos Division was in Riyom and it was a boarding school. We were fed and provided with uniforms free of charge. I lost my father when I was in primary four and my school sponsorship was never a burden on anyone. I don’t know whether I was...

 ThON THIS DAY IN 1992, A MILITARY TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT, TRAVELING WITH  On this day in 1992 a Nigerian Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules crashed in the Ejigbo canal in Lagos, three minutes after take-off from Lagos, Nigeria. All 158 Army Officers on board were killed, including 8 foreign nationals. The aircraft was taking off at high weight and its three engines failed. The aircraft was serial number 911.[ The 26th of September, 1992 was a Saturday and a tragedy of monumental proportion silently crept into the world’s most populous black nation. It was a disaster so great that it left the country’s military President and her Generals in tears, reducing them to babies. The NAF 911 was overloaded. The turnout of passengers that day was so large that 48 officers were not able to even board it. A naval officer who was a former military administrator of Ondo State was said to have stormed out of the plane when he felt the pre-flight test was taking too much of his time. He was not ...

  Photos:   Whether in colonial Madagascar of 1908 (top of page) or 1920s America (above), public schools have evolved in remarkably similar ways. All around the world, students attend schools which have an astonishing degree of similarity. Children are required to attend. It runs from kindergarten to grade 12. Students are divided by age, not by what they need or want to learn, nor by what they’ve already learned. The teacher is the authority. The children provide heads which the teacher is supposed to fill. There is little or no opportunity for students to explore a subject in depth, to develop a passion, to hone a skill. There’s an hour for one subject, then an hour for another. Teachers are considered qualified if, and only if, they have the required certificate. Whether they can teach well is irrelevant. Whether they love or hate children is irrelevant. Curriculum is fixed, and taught at a fixed rate, even if that doesn’t work for some students… even if it doesn’t work fo...