Saturday Ghana did Africa proud by qualifying for the quarter final of the first ever world cup on African soil. Saturday, Africa, nay the world celebrated what was considered a welcome development in a world cup that has so far yielded tears for a continent that pulled out all the stops to guarantee a hitch free hosting.

A gang of 10 armed robbers, weekend, invaded the residence of a member of the House of Representatives, Dr Oluwole Olakunde in Ondo town, Ondo State and killed two of his two security guards.

The Executive Secretary of Nigeria Accounting Standards Board, NASB, Mr. Godson Nnadi, has emphasized the need for the establishment of an independent accounting and auditing standard setting body for Nigeria and other African nations.

MESSRS. Richard Gill and Olutunde Adebayo have joined the employment of Nigeria’s only publicly quoted telecommunication company, Starcomms Plc, as directors to strengthen the operations of Starcomms and sustain its innovation drive among others.

For most people, a car is a necessity. We often depend on our vehicles to get us to and from work every day, transport children to events, and even for pleasure.

THE House of Representatives has distinguished itself with the regular resort to the fist in resolving matters. This has become more regular since the life of the present assemblage in June 2007.

Indications emerged, weekend, that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has been secretly giving clearance to executive directors of the rescued banks, raising questions as to why they were sacked in the first instance

Mohammed Abdulrahman is a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of Arewa Consultative Forum and the Secretary of ACF’s Political Committee.

It was one of the most hyped government programmes ever seen on these shores. Billboards were mounted in Lagos and Abuja announcing the Imo Investment Summit. The organisers sent text messages to the mobile handsets of people almost every hour. The Imo State Government was holding its first investment summit in its 34 years of existence.

Insurance companies in the country may be daring the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) on
the regulator’s resolute to ensure that underwriters meet their claims obligations as claims ratio of some insurance companies are still below 10 per cent

Developers have been reviewing downwards the prices of their properties on offer, a reflection of the gloom in the property market occasioned by the paucity of funds in the economy resulting from the unwillingness of the banks to grant credits.

WORRIED by complaints of customer abuses by telecommunication industries, the Consumer Protection Council, CPC, said it has concluded arrangements to come up with an all-embracing regulatory framework to check consumer abuses in the telecom industry in Nigeria.

Obafemi Martins has expressed his disappointment at not seeing enough playing time at the World Cup, but stopped short of criticising Technical Adviser Lars Lagerback.

The Nigerian football scene is set to rumble after the Eagles went out through the back doors in the on-going World Cup in South Africa. The fight, though, would not be to save Nigerian football. It is a war of who controls the money that accrues from the World Cup and paid by world soccer-controlling body, FIFA.

The issue of poverty has become a front burner issue all over the world especially in the continents of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The interest shown all over the world may be genuine but there are some elements of enlightened self interest. For example, in Nigeria, most of the violent clashes have been attributed to poverty. Poverty is always a threat to political stability and peace.