Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State at the weekend handed over an ultra modern crèche to the Catholic Women Organization, CWO, of the Church of Annunciation in the Abraham Adesanya Estate, Ajah as part of events to mark his 47th birthday.

As part of measures to reduce flooding, the Apapa Local Government Area is set to commission some drainage projects and some newly rehabilitated roads in the council area.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, weekend, restrained the Implementation Committee of the White Paper on the Commission of Inquiry on Federal Government Landed Property and its agents from evicting the occupants of 1, Rumens Roads, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Even writers, in their quite quarters are also deep in thought about how best to celebrate 50years of Nigeria’s journey to adulthood. Having at all times pioneered, the project, today popularly knowns as “ rebranding” through the various creative genres of prose, poetry and drama, the restless spirit, Muse will still not allow some writers rest, but will rather continue to prop them to the other side silence: the un-rebranded side of the nation’s tangible and intangible social, material and historical culture.

OUTGOING Comptroller General of Immigration, Mr Chukwurah Joseph Udeh, in this interview, speaks on how he re-engineered a re-organisation in the Immigration Service through Information Technology, among other issues.

Death among the Mbaise-Igbo of Nigeria like in other culture areas of Nigeria is a phenomenon that has deep symbolic implication between the living and the dead. Among Mbaise-Igbo, the occasion of death like the occasion of birth is celebrated with deep emotional attachment.

Ms Rachael Ama Assa Engmann recently completed her fellowship program at OYASAF, where she conducted research and enjoyed professional work experience on West African heritage, art and material culture.

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has given reasons why the popular Watt Market in Calabar South LGA and Ika-Ika Oqua Market in Calabar Municipal Council are to be relocated.

Special Assistant to the Delta State Governor on Special Duties, Mary Oyibocha_Agbajoh, has said last weekend’s visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the state was a blessing.

The Nigerian Armed Forces has been called upon to locate a military training institution in the South East Political Zone.

The post-amnesty programme of the Federal Government kicks off tomorrow at Obubra, Cross River State, where 26 American experts are scheduled to train 20,192 ex-militants in non-violence and conflict resolution.

Advancement of Democracy, a Lagos political group, has lauded the State House of Assembly for rejecting the National Assembly’s proposal on the amendment of 1999 constitution.

The question of the insurance of NNPC assets is a recurring problem. It will have to be tackled once and for all.
Of course, the President of the Republic, Goodluck Jonathan, has given directive for the probing of the operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Some prominent Nigerians who are fond of heaping praises on late Abiola are sincere in their conviction that he deserves all the praises. But majority of pro-June 12 campaigners do not really think that the late politician was a “martyr for democracy”.

In our land right now, poverty is on the increase, and this is because we’ve failed to understand that poverty arises as a result of the mismanagement and failure to properly harness our God-given natural resources and the insensitivity of any government to the welfare of its people.