TO deregulate the oil sector or not to deregulate it is an issue. When to do so is even more of an issue. The logic of deregulation is beginning to catch on, even among sections of organised Labour. The success of the liberalised telecoms sector is a very persuasive example to cite.

The Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission has told Christian pilgrims to consider pilgrimage as a tool for nation building, which could serve as a veritable instrument for national re-branding.

A friend called me early Friday to discuss the ongoing FIFA U-17 competition. He has just been told how in the attempt to disinfect a pitch, mosquito flit was sprayed on it and the grass turned brown immediately!
I could not stop laughing. He said it was not a laughing matter and asked what we were doing about it.

Several persons were reportedly injured in the riverine settlement of Tungbo, Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa State, Saturday, following a violent clash between two rival cult groups.

UGHELLI—Ughelli-based social crusader, Mr. Emmanuel Emujakpor, has joined a former governorship aspirant in Delta State, Mr. Sunny Onuesoke, in his crusade against the indiscriminate dredging of their lands by illegal dredgers in the state.

IF you were at the Palexpo Hall in the beautiful city of Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday, October 8, 2009, you would feel three times a Nigerian. You would feel in a sense that you tower over the rest of humanity. In fact, you would feel proudly Nigerian.

ABUJA—Wife of the Vice-President, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan is among prominent Nigerians who have been selected to receive an award of patrons of the Campus Community Support Foundation during the public presentation and launch of the group’s campus focused magazine, Razzmatazz. Other dignitaries to become patrons of the foundation are Owelle Rochas, Senator John Shagaya […]

DETECTIVES attached to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) Panti Yaba, have commenced investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of two adults who committed suicide by hanging at two different locations in Lagos.

AWKA—Chief Press Secretary to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, Mr. Mike Udah, has charged members of the National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) to revitalize it to make its impact felt as a professional body.

The Chancellor, Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU), Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Oba Oladele Olashore has blamed the Federal Government for the near collapse in the public educational institutions in the country with a call for a quick intervention.

The embattled students of the University of Education, Ikere Ekiti (TUNADEK) who have been sent home by the authorities of the university over 9 months ago weekend, made a surprise appearance at the Ifaki Ekiti campus of the institution, vowing not to leave the campus until the authorities of the state government make a definite pronouncement over their resumption.

The Action Congress (AC) has stressed the need for the Federal Government to hand over all federal highways to the respective states where they are situated for proper maintenance.

Determined to settle problems emanating from inadequate medical facilities for the ongoing FIFA Under 17 World Cup, sports minister Sani Ndanusa, we gathered intervened and appealed to Delta State to assist the LOC with Ambulance Vehicles.

Police detectives attached to Itire division in Lagos State are on the trail of a gang of armed robbers who snatched a Mercedes Benz jeep from a male owner on Olagbaiye Street, Ilasamaja, weekend.

Prominent Nigerians including Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State will tomorrow lay the foundation of the proposed Augustine University owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos.