British Airways’ Country Manager for Nigeria, Kola Olayinka, has been charged to be good ambassador of the country as who and who in the country’s aviation and tourism industry gathered to honour him in Lagos.

SAIDI Olopade presents the picture of a regular worker in Lagos who on a normal day, concedes three productive hours to traffic jam, just as he spends over five hours on hectic days when a truck breaks down.

THE hydra-headed monster called kidnaping may have taken a new dimension with the recent arrest of a 43 year-old man identified as Emmanuel Akpan in whose custody were two little girls aged 12 and 11 respectively.

Chairman Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Sen Isiaka Adeleke, has assured Nigerians that the commission would be impartial in the conduct of the April general elections.

Thursday of March 3, an illegal petroleum depot, situated directly behind the Integrated depot at Coconut area of Apapa Express way in Lagos, was razed by fire. It also claimed the life of an identified man who was suspected to be one of the attendants there and left many other hospitalised. Also burnt were two cars and two motorcycles.

The Lagos District Superintendent, Assemblies of God, Nigeria, Rev. Joseph Okafor, has asked Nigerians to see next-month’s general elections as a golden opportunity to vote for credible leaders, who can serve the people with fear of God.

Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana, has petitioned police authorities demanding the arrest within seven days of alleged PDP thugs who demolished the billboards of opposition politicians in Kwara, particularly those of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, governorship candidate, Muhammed Dele Belgore (SAN), on the eve of President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to the state.

Qatar Airways has introduced a number of enhanced services at Doha International Airport within the new Doha Arrivals terminal.

Super Eagles’ Chief Coach, Samson Siasia yesterday ruled out the inclusion of old players in the team for the forthcoming 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia, as he released a list of 24 players for the preparation of the encounter scheduled for March 27 at the Abuja National Stadium.

During their recent meeting in Tanzania’s northern tourist city of Arusha, top tourism leaders from 14 member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) called for respective governments to endorse a single visa program that would ease movement of tourists in the region.