THE Americans are still wondering what hit them. In one of the most devastating blows ever dealt their diplomacy, Wikileaks began this Sunday, offloading some quarter of a million cables between the State Department and 270 American embassies and consulates around the world.

Nigerian farmers have been urged to embrace modern technologies, which is the safest means of ensuring food security in present day world.

Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko yesterday rued the pitiable condition of retired workers in the nation with a solemn assurance that his government would do all in its power to ensure that retired workers in the State get the best treatment from his government with the prompt payment of their pensions and gratuities as at when due.

TENSION has gripped leaders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Enugu State following Wednesday’s warning by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that the party stood the risk of jeopardizing its chances in states where inconclusive congresses have continued to cause crisis.

After the euphoria that greeted his declaration to run the 2011 presidential race, there has been an unusual quietness in the camp of Kano State two-term Governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau.

AYAKOROMO youth leader, Mr Ewaridideke Ekanpour, yesterday, said that the Federal Government and the Joint Task Force authorities were responsible for the return of John Togo to militancy, even as he advised JTF operatives to restrict their attack to John Togo camps.

IT was a harvest of deaths yesterday in Lagos, Ogun and Akwa Ibom states as no fewer than 30 persons were burnt to death in auto accidents involving petrol tankers. In Lagos, more than 20 people were burnt in their vehicles around Alakija area of Mile 2 on the Lagos-Badagry expressway when an oil tanker fell and spilled its contents on the Lagos-Badagry expressway.

NIGERIA is a lucky country. Any country so lucky should also know there is a limit to luck. One cannot be lucky forever or stretch it until it saps.Table tennis tells this story in its most disturbing terms.

Disputations about the academic qualifications of Chief Great Ogboru as a candidate in the forthcoming gubernatorial re-run election were, yesterday, dismissed by the Sunshine Organisation, Ogboru’s campaign platform.

THE Mapo Hall and Cocoa House are two tourists’ sights that make a visit to the sprawling Ibadan city complete and exhilarating. The two edifices have profound historical significance for the Yoruba people of south western Nigeria.