By Yushau A. Shuaib
Advancement in technology has eased the tasks of meteorologists in providing near accurate predictions on weather conditions and environmental changes in given societies.
The technology is applied for forecasting and early warning alert systems as it has gone beyond mere weather forecast. Some latest technologies are being deployed to detect likelihood and potentials [...]

An Abuja High Court has given an order restraining Prof. Chukwuma Soludo from parading himself as the PDP candidate for Anambra State in the February 2010 governorship election.

THERE has been so much noise on the “cleaning up” of the banking sector with the replacement of some bank chiefs. One area which most people have ignored is the huge sums (tax payers’ money) put in the ailing banks and the impact on society.

By  Richard Tosanwumi
THE exercise of the surrender of weapons by the Niger Delta freedom fighters or militants, depending on the side of the divide to which one belongs, as part of the amnesty granted to them by President Umaru Yar’Adua has come and gone. It was adjudged very successful by a cross-section of Nigerians.
Heart-warming as [...]

IT was sometime in late August this year. The place was London. The people – a diverse group of prominent Nigerians which included a sprinkling of professionals and businessmen – were engaged in what Nigerians do so well: Discussing and disagreeing about current issues in the country.

THIS is not the best of times for those of us in opposition in Kwara politics. And since Kwara is a territory conquered by one family, there had been heavy traffic of erstwhile comrades at arms towards the ruling dynasty.

THE petitioners’ witnesses on the other hand had testified that the respondents did not resign their appointments at all or as prescribed by law. Orji (the governor) having not appeared at the tribunal at all nor called any witness to testify on this point was held to have failed to deny the allegation which the Tribunal then had no difficulty to find and hold to have been proved by the petitioners. In holding that the governor and his deputy did not resign their appointments in the public service of Abia State as required, the tribunal did not lose sight of the documents

FEW people gave it much of a chance. At best, Yar’Adua’s amnesty plan for Niger Delta militants appeared like one of those gimmicks successive Nigerian governments dish out at regular intervals to bamboozle or hoodwink Nigerians while governments do everything but govern. The Niger Delta war had raged for years.

The practice of appointing spokesmen for the Senate can be traced back to the very first Senate of the fourth republic. In appointing spokesmen the various leaderships have with the notable exception of the Adolphus Wabara Senate picked from among their kitchen cabinets.

THE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported last week a decline in the inflation and interest rates, which analysts attributed to the current banking reforms and the relative stability in the prices of crude oil which they believed may have returned Nigeria to the path of economic stability.