Stake-holders in the Niger Delta, yesterday, rejected the Federal Government Presi-dential Committee on Amnesty’s work plan for ex-militants in the region, saying a close scrutiny of the document showed that the money allocated to consul-tants was more than the one for the actual beneficiaries.

THE Supreme Court, yesterday, heard that the inability of the Council of State to ratify the draft agreement between the Federal Government and 27 states of the Federation is threatening the out-of-court settlement for the payment of monies totalling about N4.4 trillion deducted by the Federal Government from the Federation Account between 2004 and 2007.

THE Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, yesterday, announced that government has concluded negotiations with stakeholders in the oil and gas sector over the proposed deregulation of the downstream sector, and was only waiting for the “right time” to launch out.

THERE is clearly a great divide in the reading of Ambassador Lyman’s evaluation of Nigeria’s current relevance in the world. Of the many comments two are particularly personal. Olusegun Lawal’s my former student says “I’m disappointed”.

THINKING about the corner into which those who rule in the name of the people have painted themselves and the rest of us, I’m forced to ask if this is how we intend to carry on, which is the literal translation of the title of today’s discourse, rendered in pidgin.