CRUDE oil prices, yesterday, fell below $79 from its $80 benchmark, two days ago. Crude for April delivery fell more than $1 per barrel, breaking a five-day rally, after the expectations of a build-up in U.S. crude oil stocks.

Indications have emerged that all is not well with the Bayelsa State executive council following the alleged resignation of the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Asara A. Asara.

FOLLOWING the fracas between members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, and their counterparts in the Action Congress, AC, in the Edo State House of Assembly, Monday, the Assembly premises was, yesterday, sealed off by armed mobile policemen numbering more than two thousand.

This immortal statement was uttered about one hundred years ago. But American writer Orison Swett Marden may well have been referring to the improbable emergence of Jimoh Ibrahim from the young boy with tall but seemingly impossible dreams in the obscure rural backwood of Igbotako in the furtherest reaches of Ondo State to the phenomenon who now bestrides the Nigerian business landscape like a colossus.

THE Student Union Government of the Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma in collaboration with the Part Time Student Association, yesterday, insisted that the protest embarked upon by students of the university last week, was as result of the increase in school fees by the state government.