A Group supporting the presidential aspiration of former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) in 2011, the Campaign Network for Ibrahim Babangida, CNI, weekend in Benin, Edo State, defended the former Head of State in most of the actions he took during his eight years regime.

Too many times our governors and other political warriors in the Third World begin with and stop at the enactment of massive infrastructural developments. To their shame or perhaps state of un-knowingness they mistake rising skylines as the equivalent of human development.

Other environmental impacts are the expensive irrigation practices and the pressure on land use. Extremely weak research activities to generate the best strains of crops taking the least time from germination to maturation as well as having desirable traits to make the entire process profitable.

NIGERIAN youths have resolved to inaugurate a team to monitor and counter identified electoral malpractices at all the polling units in the country in the 2011 general elections.

Six civil society groups have asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, to compel the Federal Government to disclose how the $12.4 billion oil windfall between 1988 and 1994 was expended by the then Federal Government.

NEWLY appointed acting Inspector-General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, will, today, present a five-point agenda that would underscore his resolve to tackle problems of police brutality and extra-judicial killings as well as extortion and bribery in the force.

WORRIED by pressure from States on the Federal Government to handle environmental disasters, the Ecological Fund is set to compel states to render account of the funds released to them from the central purse.

Goodluck Jonathan is a massive improvement on Yar’ Adua in terms of apparent good health. In addition, he obviously has his finger on the pulse of the nation and allows it to help him shape the direction of his governance.

Before the calls came there was the joke we were cracking with Tunji Babalola acting Executive secretary of the NPL who had voted during the elections. We said to him that he also stood accused and was likely to be picked up.

The Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan administrations have all decried what they consider to be the unnecessary and stifling burden placed on the economy by government’s increasing subsidy on the price of petrol.