Toye Olori

EDUCATION-NIGERIA: University Lecturers On Strike, Again

For the second time this year, Nigerian university lecturers have staged a nationwide strike to press the government for an increase in pay.

COMMODITIES-NIGERIA: Cocoa Farmers Say No To Marketing Board

By Toye Olori

Nigerian cocoa farmers have urged the government to scrap all plans to re-introduce commodity marketing boards which go against the spirit of free trade.

COMMODITIES-NIGERIA: Cocoa Farmers Say No To Marketing Board

By Toye Olori

Nigerian cocoa farmers have urged the government to scrap all plans to re-introduce commodity marketing boards which go against the spirit of free trade.

EDUCATION-NIGERIA: Winning The War Against Cultism On The Campus

By Toye Olori

When Nigeria's new President, Olusegun Obasanjo, ordered heads of universities and tertiary institutions in July to flush out cultism from their institutions within three months, critics viewed the order as a very tall and hard one.

POPULATION-NIGERIA: Growing Opposition To Male Sterilisation

By Toye Olori

A growing number of women in Nigeria are opposed to vasectomy as a means of birth control, a study shows.

ENERGY-NIGERIA: Private Sector Steps In To Boost Power Supply

By Toye Olori

More than 300,000 inhabitants of this community, some 50 kilometres east of the commercial city of Lagos, have been without electricity for ten years.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Women Demand More Access To Land

By Toye Olori

Mary Obajulu, a 40-year-old civil servant, bitterly recalls how a bank manager turned down her application for a loan simply because she failed to produce a letter of support from her husband.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Women Demand More Access To Land

By Toye Olori

Mary Obajulu, a 40-year-old civil servant, bitterly recalls how a bank manager turned down her application for a loan simply because she failed to produce a letter of support from her husband.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Reforming The Prison System

By Toye Olori

Nigeria's new president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has embarked on a programme to reform the country's collapsing prison system, run down by the military in the past 15 years.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Reforming The Prison System

By Toye Olori

Nigeria's new president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has embarked on a programme to reform the country's collapsing prison system, run down by the military in the past 15 years.

//REPEATING//RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Child Trafficking On The Rise

By Toye Olori

Nigeria has become a nerve center for a booming trade in child trafficking to the oil-rich central African state of Gabon.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Child Trafficking On The Rise

By Toye Olori

Nigeria has become a nerve center for a booming trade in child trafficking to the oil-rich central African state of Gabon.

EDUCATION-NIGERIA: Teachers’ Strike Paralyses Schools

By Toye Olori

Primary schools throughout Nigeria have been paralysed by teachers' strike over a new minimum wage.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: 15 Years Of Military Rule Under Probe

By Toye Olori

Nigeria's new President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has formed a panel to probe human rights abuses committed during 15 years of military rule.

EDUCATION-NIGERIA: Cult Students Terrorise University Campus

By Toye Olori

The brutal murder of the Registrar of Nigeria's Delta State University, Peter Otolo, by suspected cult students at his residence early this month, is worrying Nigerians.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: 15 Years Of Military Rule Under Probe

By Toye Olori

Nigeria's new President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has formed a panel to probe human rights abuses committed during 15 years of military rule.

EDUCATION-NIGERIA: Teachers’ Strike Paralyses Schools

By Toye Olori

Primary schools throughout Nigeria have been paralysed by teachers' strike over a new minimum wage.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Procession For Slain Pro-Democracy Heroine

By Toye Olori

Rights groups in Nigeria Friday held a procession in the commercial city of Lagos to remember Kudirat, the slain wife of the late Moshood Abiola, the presumed winner of the 1993 Presidential election.

POLITICS-NIGERIA: General Obasanjo Sworn-In As President

By Toye Olori

Olusegun Obasanjo was Saturday sworn-in as President by Chief Justice, Muhamed Lawal Uwais, at a colourful ceremony in the capital Abuja.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Trafficking of Young Girls Thrives

By Toye Olori

The traditional ruler in Nigeria's ancient city of Benin is far from happy with the reputation his area is gaining both in Nigeria and internationally.