ABUJA – Indications emerged, yesterday, in Abuja that the five-man inter-agency panel headed by the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro, investigating the $190million Halliburton scandal has been ordered by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to submit an interim report on or before Monday.

Yes, we know it suited the ethos and practice of “Rule Britannia” for Britain to intentionally force non-complementary disparate entities together and call it “Nigeria” (thanks to a bored or drunk Mrs. Lugard).

Whenever I sit down with these beleaguered fellow travellers to discuss our respective predicaments, we wind up agreeing that we’ll probably have more joyful and prosperous existences if we pack our bags and take off to an overseas haven in which people who aren’t hard-edged or shrewd can thrive.

Nigeria Football authorities did not make adequate arrangement for crowd control. It was a shame that fans invaded the pitch the moment the referee blew the final whistle.

To many Nigerians (if there are some left worthy of that appellation), it is now time to talk, discuss and debate and reach tolerable conclusions on specific issues like, the Niger Delta, Power supply, Electoral reforms, Federal fiscal system, Police decentralization, and federalism based on six or more geographical zones.

THE attack on Atlas Cove should worry those who thought amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta would stop militancy and criminality. It is a long distance from the Niger Delta to Lagos, where the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, struck on Sunday night. What informed this attack at the height […]

The Senate had two months ago thrown away the bill seeking to establish a commission to register and regulate political parties.

Mr Makele is presently the Associate Director, Legal Risk & Compliance of DTZ Group Holdings Plc, an international corporate finance and investment management company.

Edema noted that the economic hardship has become unbearable for the people and appealed to the federal government to call the JTF to order by way of opening up the waterways to enable free movement of people, goods and services in the area.

He said amnesty was the leeway to resolve the nagging issue of militancy and warned those giving it different interpretation not to sabotage the genuine efforts of the Federal Government to bring lasting peace to the Niger Delta.