I believe it was in this column I wrote last week that I do not envy the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF ), one bit. To lend credence to my fear, the President of the body is reported to have said that the Federation had to bow to the yearnings of Nigerians in choosing a foreign technical adviser for the Super Eagles World Cup campaign. I hope that statement, (if he said it,) will just end there, because no Nigerian will be held responsible if the coach they bring, fails to deliver.

Senators belonging to the National Interest Group, NIG, which championed last week’s empowerment of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President are contemplating fresh options to regularise perceived constitutional inadequacies in the resolutions of the National Assembly.

THE Save Nigeria Group, SNG, has faulted the National Assembly’s resolutions empowering Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President. The group has also given the Federal Executive Council a 10-day notice to declare President Umaru Yar’Adua physically incapacitated.

The Federal High Court sitting in Benin has set aside an order of an Abuja magistrate court for the arrest of the Action Congress lawmaker representing Akoko-Edo North Constituency in the Edo State House of Assembly Mr. Kabiru Adjotu.

THE South South Economic Summit Committee, SSESC, led by former Presidential candidate, Professor Pat Utomi, weekend, urged the Federal Government to urgently commence the construction of the Lagos-Calabar railway line which is estimated to cost 5.7 billion dollars.

FOLLOWING the violent clash between soldiers, men of the State Security Services, SSS, and the police, which led to the death of two soldiers Thursday in Benin, Governor Adams Oshiomhole yesterday inaugurated a commission of inquiry to investigate the ugly incident.

The Anambra State governorship election, together with its outcome, has continued to be the talking point among parliamentarians in Lagos and elsewhere in the country. This was precisely the case at the Cele Bus-stop along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway recently. It began with a parliamentarian, Chuks Morka, expressing happiness at Governor Peter Obi’s victory and re-election at the polls.

By Ochereome Nnanna WITH a lady like Professor Dora Akunyili, there is no dull moment. It is either hot or cold, but mostly hot. She is an interesting personality and public figure to watch. People are either mostly good or mostly bad. But in the case of Dora Akunyili, she is mostly good and sometimes […]

WHY is there sudden silence about Anambra? Is it over disappointment that Ndi Anambra deflected national expectation, promoted to international proportions, that the gubernatorial election would prove again that Anambra State was not amenable to democratic ethos?

The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark weekend said the solution to Nigeria’s problems of underdevelopment and poverty lies in good governance, peace and stability.

In a bid to boost the second term ambition of Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State, members of the ‘Credible Sylva Movement’ have agreed to collapsed into the group, ‘Concerned Bayelsans for Timipre Sylva.’

In other words, bank could now keep only 2% of their assets as cash! Serious analysts would consider such accommodation as patently reckless and skating on thin ice, especially in a country with a heavily cash dependent economy; liquidity ratio of banks was similarly inappropriately reduced from 40%… to 25% and government treasury bills holdings were also admitted as a component of liquidity ratio.

FOREMOST Ijaw female activist, Ann Kio Briggs, has called on the Federal Government to demonstrate the necessary political will needed for the amnesty project for militants in the Niger Delta region to succeed.

THE two labour unions in the country, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its counterpart, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, weekend set agenda for Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, urging him to focus on electoral reform, power generation, healthcare, infrastructure and revival of industries, among others.

Primary Mortgage Institutions (PMIs) operators under the umbrella of the Mortgage Banking Association of Nigeria (MBAN) have described as illegal the recent decisions of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) concerning the National Housing Fund (NHF).