Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Nathan Egba during a visit to the Lagos Corporate Headquarters of Vanguard Newspapers, last week, spoke among others on the politics of Bayelsa, why Governor Timipre Sylva is preparing for the 2011 polls and how to ensure credible elections in 2011.

THE Coroner inquest into the cause of the ghastly motor accident that occurred at the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, by Otedola Estate on August 15, 2010, in which many lives were lost and property worth million of naira destroyed has provided an insight on how precious lives are lost needlessly in the country, especially on our roads.

THE war against hard drugs in the country seemed to be assuming a fever-height crescendo with the destruction of a large expanse of farm land used for the cultivation of cannabis sativa, otherwise known as India hemp. The farm lands used for the cultivation of the prohibitive plants were destroyed across the country including Ekiti and Delta states respectively between January and September this year.

To X-ray Nigeria at 50 years while searching for an alternative paradigm, what then is it about Nigeria at 50 years that warrants a search for an alternative paradigm? You certainly do not change a winning formula if you are doing well. It is only when you are doing otherwise that you run from the hospital to the herbalist, the church, the mosque, the magician and elsewhere for a winning formula or a cure. So, the questions are: Is Nigeria doing well? Has Nigeria done well? Does Nigeria have a plan to do well?

Vice Chancellors of the six Nigerian Universities which are currently benefitting from the Universities Partnering Programme (UPP) being bankrolled by Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited and NNPC have declared that the intervention funding of their geology departments will go a long way in empowering them to produce quality graduates of geosciences.

Last week Lagos State pensioners converged at the state Secretariat Alausa, Ikeja to receive retirement bond certificates in accordance with the implementation of the state contributory pension scheme, a fallout of Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004.

The 2010 edition of the October Rain, an exhibition of art and design objects to celebrate Nigeria at 50 organised by the Society of Nigerian Artists, Lagos in collaboration with Interior Designers Association of Nigeria (IDAN) ended recently in a grand style at the Nike Art Center Lekki, Lagos writes
Japhet Alakam.

On October 8, 2010, the former Chief Executive Officer of Oceanic Bank International Nigeria PLC, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru was sentienced to eighteen months imprison by the Federal High Court Lagos, Nigeria for committing various economic and financial crimes.

The peace plan proposal for Enugu State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, derailed yesterday following the decision of the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, not to serve as the chairman of the peace panel.

As the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan reserved judgement in Osun State governorship election petition, many are wondering whether the state will also go the way of Ekiti.