AHEAD of the arrival of Minister of Finance and Coordinator, National Economic Management Team, NEMT, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, from the World Bank to resume duties in Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday swore in two special advisers to beef up the proposed NEMT.

VANGUARD of July 20, 2011 ex pounded on its front page headline: “Reps afraid to discuss Boko Haram” as follows:”The fear of a possible reprisal attack against them or members of their families has kept members of the House of Representatives from discussing the growing menace of the Boko Haram sect which has been engaged in violent confrontations with security forces in Borno and other Northern states of the federation, Vanguard investigations have revealed”.

THERE was pandemonium in parts of Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State, yesterday, as policemen engaged a gang of armed robbers in a shoot-out.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State, Senator Lekan Balogun at the Commission of Enquiry investigating the bloody clashes between two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, yesterday, alleged that the immediate past administration of Adebayo Alao-Akala supplied ammunition and money to a faction of the union.

IN August 2010, Ambassador John Campbell published the following views about Nigeria: “Nigeria is in trouble. National elections scheduled for 2011 has the potential to undermine the country’s current precarious stability by exacerbating its serious internal ethnic, regional and religious divisions. Since 1999, national presidential elections have adhered to an informal power sharing arrangement between the Muslim North and the Christian South, thereby avoiding regional and religious conflict.