ARE we to take the Senate serious when it claimed while passing the Freedom of Information Bill, it was providing surplusage of freedom? The mere suggestion that there could be too much freedom and access to information is that the type of thinking that quickly tells us why the country will not make much progress soon.

President Goodluck Jonathan is set to launch, on Thursday, a Gas Revolution agenda, which is specifically designed to expand the nation’s gas supply that will lead to re-industrialisation of the country as well as the development of its agricultural resources.

TWO months ago, a five-year-old girl, (names withheld) was kidnaped from her parents’ Alausa Ikeja, Lagos residence by a man who rode on a motorcycle. The incident devastated parents of the little girl, whose father is a public office holder in Lagos State.

THE recently concluded Northern Economic Summit in Kaduna provided another opportunity for soul-searching over failed dreams in the northern part of Nigeria. For me, it was an opportunity to ponder the failed dreams of Nigeria as a nation.

Chairman Board of Coriander Resources Limited, Sola Solarin has warned that continual acceptance of donation from multilateral funds that donate imported drugs at subsidized rates below cost of manufacture to the Nigerian market is killing local pharmaceutical industries in the country.

ADAMU Maina Waziri erstwhile chief executive officer of the Petroleum Technology Developwent Fund, PTDF, former Minister of Agriculture between 2007 and 2008,

LEADERS who will not recruit green horns based on party allegiance or family ties. Leaders who will inspire their professional cabinet and co-workers into higher levels of teamwork motivation to achieve realistic targets.

How much do you really know about your stomach? When it comes to the tummy, myths abound. From those burning, churning feelings that erupt whenever we eat our favourite foods, to the bloating that keeps us from zipping up our jeans, to the gas that can make us the most unpopular person in the elevator, our stomach can be the cause of some major inconveniences, if not some outright health concerns

SINCE August 26, 2010 when the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR unveiled his administration’s road map in the Power sector, various business groups and investors have indicated interest in participating in the acquisition of the Power Generating Plants.

Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has reversed all the public pronouncements and appointments by the Oyo State Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, made as regard the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho, describing them as illegal.

-DESPITE the declaration, last week, by the Special Adviser to the President on Niger-Delta Affairs and Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, Mr Kingsley Kuku, that the government was prepared to dialogue with the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta, MEND, over its recent threats, it was gathered that talks have not commenced because nobody has come out to identify himself as a leader or representative of the militant group.

Governor Alao-Akala through Mr. Moronkola Thomas, Director of Media and Publicity for the Akala/Arapaja Campaign Organisation said PDP’s towering image should not be rubbed in the mud as regards the DDC machines.

The former Governor of Ekiti State and the Labour Party, LP, candidate for Ekiti Central Senatorial district in April general elections, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said he was not aware of any court injunction barring him from contesting the election, saying he would shame his opponents by winning convincingly.

THE mysterious disappearance of a notorious armed robbery suspect from a Lagos police cell has thrown the state command into confusion.

MEMBERS of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, in Ondo State, have threatened to disrupt the April polls in Ondo State if the Federal Government failed to recognise their leader, known as ‘Creek Lion’, from Furupagha, in the on-going dialogue with MEND.