THERE is one thing one cannot take away from Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu , Ezeigbo Gburugburu – his passion for his people and his deep-rooted concern for their well-being. One thing we have come to associate with Ojukwu is his ability to speak for his people whenever he perceives danger lurking against them.

Arik Air made history yesterday morning when it touched down at the JFK International Airport in New York, and this makes the airline the first Nigerian carrier to operate flights into the U.S. in the last decade. The liquidated national carrier, Nigeria Airways, stopped operations into New York at the peak of its management crisis, […]

*As oil coys invest $21bn on PSC blocks By Hector Igbikiowubo, Yemie Adeoye & Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA—THE Federal Government, yesterday, stated that there was no going back on oil and gas industry reform, even as it pointed out that the industry was facing core challenges that has made the nation’s oil and gas industry perform […]

By Laide Akinboade ABUJA — In spite of the hospitalisation of President Umaru Yar’Adua in a Saudi hospital, the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, yesterday, said the Federal Government machinery would continue to operate optimally. The President who is currently on treatment abroad has elicited unprecedented debate on whether he should continue […]

THAT’S the truth of our present condition- we get by. Somehow: In the apparent stagnancy of our existence as a country, a people, we manage to move on- somehow. We are now in December, the last month of the year which several months ago we were promised would put an end to our life in the dark.