It’s this idea that it’s either his way or the highway, what Soyinka called ‘The Credo of Being and Nothingness’ that would lead Umar Farouk to want to commit mass suicide in the belief that he is right while everybody else is wrong. In his Facebook journal, Farouk betrays this sense of superior apprehension of religious knowledge despite his painful lack of social skills that could make him bond with his mates, make sense of his own growing sexuality and, maybe, strike up relationships with the opposite sex.

FORMER Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr Fred Omogberai, weekend alleged that the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state traded six House of Assembly seats to Action Congress (AC) to oust former Governor Oserhiemen Osunbor from power.

MOVED by the health condition of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM) has declared three days of prayer and fasting for the quick recovery of the president.

IN a desperate bid to abort the planned picketing and disruption of operations of banks over the on-going mass sack of workers, the Federal Government has summoned the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN; Chief Executives of banks and organised labour for a meeting aimed at finding solution to the looming industrial unrest.

The Federal Government has directed the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC) to release the outstanding Export Expansion Grant (EEG) certificates for 2007 amounting to N21,580,405,000 to the beneficiaries (exporters).