By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Imo State government has described some of the federal roads in the state as “death traps,” and passionately appealed to the Federal Government to urgently reconstruct them to save lives. The Deputy Governor, Dr. Ada Okwuonu, stated this when she played host to members of the Works Committee, House of Representatives, on […]

AFTER more than three months of shutting the universities down, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government have decided to call off this round of strike, an annual ritual that befuddles Nigerians about the issues of university education.

GOVERNOR of the Central Bank, CBN, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, has said that no Nigerian has been mentioned in relation to the $10 million polymer bribery scandal.

IN what appears a twist to the pursuit of the deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry, the Federal Government has refused to grant import licence to traders and petroleum products marketers.

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.