Loyalists of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, especially those who had held sway since his November 23, 2009 departure to Saudi Arabia, are now fighting what may be termed the battle of a lifetime, following Wednesday’s assumption of office by Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President, while a PDP delegation led by its National Chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor was billed to see the President last night in his Jeddah hospital.

NO fewer than 15 persons were feared dead Saturday morning in Port Harcourt when a high tension wire belonging to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) gave way and landed on two commercial buses, electrocuting the passengers on the spot. The sad incident occurred around Oginigba, very close to Slaughter – Trans Amadi part of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the main agenda of the Ekiti people was education.
So high was education on the priority list of Ekiti, then in the Western Region, that virtually every household had a professor.

February 10, 2010, was a slight contrast from Wednesday, November 25, 2009. Unlike that morning in 2009 when the ministers did not know what to expect from a Goodluck Jonathan chairmanship of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, last Wednesday’s was different for many reasons.

Koriko Hotel (not real name), Awka, Anambra State, was a beehive of activities penultimate Friday. Members of the Anambra State Election Monitoring Team, put together by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had just concluded their meeting with another monitoring team from the European Union as well as other recognized bodies of observers.

The measures put in place by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to ensure adequate supply of petroleum products in the country and end scarcity of the products are yielding positive results as queues are gradually disappearing from service outlets across the country.

The Senate Committee on Downstream Petroleum has called on the Federal Government to device a means of prosecuting persons caught stealing petroleum products from vandalised pipelines in order to stem the tide of crude oil theft, estimated at $1.5billion annually.

The executive chairman of Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, Mr Ernest Ndukwe, has said financial and operational independence is critical for Nigeria to sustain the gains recorded in telecoms sector especially in this era where information and communications technology (ICT) is driving the global economy.

Mr.Patrick Okere, general manager of Dakento Limited, makers of Matador energy drink, in this interview, speaks on why his company is passionate about curbing the high rate of unemployment in the country and the need for government to consciously institute laws to protect the manufacturing industry.

In our insight analysis for today, we consider the importance of knowing what is important in any situation we find ourselves. Given the prevailing poor economic climate, uncertainty, work pressure, family pressures, all sorts of challenges, the value of knowing what is important at any point in time becomes so very critical.