THE National Chairman of Social Democratic Mega Party, SDMP, Professor Pat Utomi, said yesterday that it was a time of great challenge for the country as Nigeria marks its 50 years of existence as a nation, just as he stressed that the noise surrounding the celebration might take away the ability to reflect.

AGGRIEVED workers of moribund Nigeria Telecommunication Limited, NITEL and its Mobil-Telecommunication, M-TEL, yesterday, for the second day, laid siege on the Ministry of Labour and Productivity, demanding payment of their 30 month salary arrears and benefits.

SENATORS from the South-East and other aggrieved Igbos, yesterday,condemned the lock out of former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme and other Igbo political leaders from the national Igbo summit held, Monday, in Owerri; with some of the respondents accusing the Federal Government for allegedly being responsible for the action.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, said that corruption in high places will continue to mar the nation’s development.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, joined other Nigerians in condemning the kidnap of 15 school children in Aba, Abia State, by hoodlums who are demanding the sum of N20million as ransom

By Dayo Benson & Ola Ajayi LAGOS—FOLLOWING the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission not to recognize the existence of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, executives in eight states where it said congresses were inconclusive, the party in Oyo State said, yesterday, that the electoral body had gone beyond the purview of its power. […]

AS we mark the fiftieth year of our flag independence, many Nigerians are despondent believing that our lingering problems are because we are cursed.

DEBATES over what caused flooding that has displaced more than two million people in some parts of northern Nigeria have assumed more importance than rescue operations to ameliorate the suffering of those affected.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, asked the Senate to amend relevant sections of the 1999 Constitution and the 2010 Electoral Act to accommodate the new dates requested by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the conduct of the 2011 polls.

Former Eagles’ defender, Ben Iroha has predicted difficulty for the foreign-based professionals dominating the team against Guinea in the forthcoming African Cup of Nations qualifier in Conakry .

As in men’s athletics the Commonwealth contains some of the finest female athletes in the world, but once again many of the biggest stars will be missing.

Global leader in critical power and cooling services, APC by Schneider Electric opened its local swap centre in Ikeja, Lagos. The new Swap center is to provide warranty support on single phase Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSes) as well as assisting Nigerian customers with onsite support related to three phase solutions.

With the wave still blowing hot and hard on the dual SIM card phone technology; a current sensation in all major ICT markets across the country, refurbished phones have stepped up their game in the trend of phone innovations.

Good leadership, one of Nigeria’s biggest challenges, last weekend formed the major plank of discussion at a one day ICT summit held in Lagos, at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs

In today’s world, Information Technology has brought about a revolution in the day-to-day lives of people. It is time that countries like Nigeria accept the fact that a pervasive national information infrastructure is as basic a necessity as water and power. So far, any country’s development status was based on finance, industry and military.