The hair, it is said, is the crowning glory of every woman. Little wonder time and resources are not spared in ensuring that hair styles are catchy, if not eye popping.

THE consistent withdrawal of funds from the excess crude account by the Federal Government for sharing among the three ties of government has been described as illegal and against the provisions of Section 35 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act which provides that money in the account can only be withdrawn if the price of crude maintains a consistent fall below the budgeted benchmark for at least three months. [More…]

LEGAL luminary, Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), weekend lamented that the 1999 constitution of Nigeria could not provide the answer to the failure of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua to transmit a letter to the president of the senate or speaker of the House of Representatives informing them of his inability to perform his duties or that he was proceeding on a vacation.

A DEAR friend, Professor Ogwo E. Ogwo, last week forwarded an interesting article he saw on the pages of The Guardian of London to my mailbox. It was written by Nigerian-born literary legend, Professor Chinua Achebe and entitled: “What Nigeria means to me”. I had not even completed reading it when I decided I was going to write a rejoinder discussing what Nigeria means to me against the general flow of Achebe’s reflections.

The tenacity of the pro Yar’Adua cabal to hold onto Aso Rock through whatever means must be a testimony to the sweetness of power! Under normal circumstances where political and public offices are geared towards the service of the people, there will be little or no personal gain in capturing power or its retention.

The Speaker, Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr Eugene Odoh, has condemned the slow pace of rehabilitation of the Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port Harcourt dual carriage ways.

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday promised Nigerians that himself and members of the Executive Council of the Federation (EXCOF) will at all time do that which is humanly right, in terms of good governance, geared towards the economic recovery of the country.

Conrad Hilton is the world’s best known innkeeper. Through spectacular rise from being the proprietor of the Mobley Hotel in Cisco Texas—a petroleum boom town— he became the world’ statesman of international hospitality. Conrad Hilton relocated to Cisco Texas from San Antonio shortly after his service in the U.S Army.

THE governor of the Central Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, says some Joint Venture Cash Calls, JVCs, agreements entered into by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) with international oil companies (IOCs) was responsible for the fast decline in the nation’s foreign reserves.

The Action Congress, AC, has said the decision on whether or not the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, should invoke Section 144 to resolve the saga over President Umaru Yar’Adua’s lingering illness should be guided by the Constitution, not emotions.

The Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime has been commended on the progress made on the four-point agenda of his administration.

The managing director and chief executive officer, Beco Petroleum Products plc, Mr. Henry Mojekwu, has said that the overwhelming influence of the Federal Government in the petroleum sector is responsible for the delay of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), that has been in National Assembly since 2008.

We’ll take a look at partnerships in today’s review. Business people and entrepreneurs often find themselves needing or seeking partnerships to enhance their business objectives. It is a fundamental truth that no man is complete in himself. We need others, one way or another to complement or enhance us. No matter how gifted a man is, he cannot produce children unless he partners with a woman. In the same way, a woman must partner with a man to produce children. In business, it is inevitable that we team up with others in our pursuit for greater heights.

THE Minister of Works, Senator Sanusi Daggash, has said that the construction of the second Niger Bridge will take off soon as the present administration is committed to its realisation.

The Federal Government, impressed with the construction of a world class ‘level 4’ military hospital by the Nigerian Army High Command in Kaduna, weekend, said it was considering replicating such in Army formations in the six geo-political zones to make them accessible to every Nigerian aside military personnel.