EMMANUEL Uduaghan recently thought he should respond to my piece: “Take a trip to the three Warri LGAs” published in the Vanguard of February 7, 2011. He went consulting his consultant, public communication and strategy. Both men came out and deposited a full-page advertorial in the Vanguard of February 8, 2011.

MEMBERS of the Delta State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation, have summoned the former state Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dr. Roland Ehime his successor, Anthony Akpomiemie and the contractors handling the digitalization of the state House of Assembly proceedings to appear before the Committee on Wednesday this week to explain why the project was abandoned after much fund had been committed to it.

A member of the Niger Delta Development Commission Project Presidential Monitoring Committee, Mr. Furoebi Akeni, has expressed concern that thousands of eligible voters in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area may be disenfranchised in the forthcoming general elections following the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to display the registered voters list in the area.

Going by the headline of this piece, what I am about to write is no more news.
I am convinced that perhaps there is nothing I am going to say here that our very intelligent readers have not heard or read and this influenced my earlier decision to dwell extensively on the just concluded Orange African Nations Championship.

EACH time there is tragedy on our roads, recriminations follow, and the matter is rested. It is time government did more to make the roads safer for everyone and in this enterprise, no excuses should be accepted.

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Olusegun Aganga has taken steps towards boosting the manufacturing sector of the economy by approving the second set of industrial projects worth N998.2 million to be funded under the National Economic Reconstruction Fund, NERFUND, scheme.

No fewer than 301 passengers escaped death in Tamarasset, Algeria, weekend, following a technical problem suffered by one of the engines of British Airways flight 74 which was conveying them to London from Lagos.

AS Lagos State commences preparation for 2011 Holy Pilgrimage to Mecca, it announced that in line with the directive from the Saudi-Arabian authorities through the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, no pregnant woman will be allowed to travel with the Lagos State Muslim Pilgrim Board for the annual Holy Pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia this year.

Mr. Isaac Orolugbagbe, a graduate of Chemistry from the University of Ife (now OAU) and a Master’s in Business Leadership (MBL) from the University of South Africa,, is a public speaker on Business Leadership & Strategy, leading sessions on Business Strategy on a part-time basis at the Lagos Business School of the Pan-African University

Federal Government through the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, has recovered N68 billion from contracts that were over-inflated by some Ministries, Department and Agencies, MDAs, in the 2010 budget.

Former scribe of the Nigeria Football Association, Alhaji Sani Ahmed Toro has faulted Nigeria’s failed bid to replace Dr Amos Adamu with Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima in the FIFA executive committee in the recently held elections of the continental football ruling body in Sudan last week.

I read with disgust an article published in the Vanguard newspaper of February 20, 2011 authored by one Les Leba entitled ‘Aganga vs Soludo: The pot and the kettle’. I have never responded to any newspaper article but after reading this one, I felt I must write.

Following the maturity of the 14.50 per cent, 3rd FGN Bond 2011 Series 3, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) announced last week that it has de_listed it from the market

EDO State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole said, weekend, that the April 2011 elections in the state was very crucial to him as he wanted a state House of Assembly that could give him legislative backing in his bid to sustain the tempo of development in the state.

THE management of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, weekend, described as “political,” the protest embarked upon by members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, over payment of hazard allowances.