Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Mr. Gideon Ekeuwe, yesterday, appeared before the state House of Assembly Committee on Public Accounts, and said that the office of Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, had so far received only N1.6 billion for projects spread across the state.

I was in Abuja on the last Saturday of June 2011 and found that I could not leave my home or attend to any business activities until after 10.00am. It was environmental sanitation day. I remembered with angst, the military brutality that attended the introduction of environmental sanitation in Nigeria.

For those who throng the Airforce Base in Ikeja recently for a friendly match between Lagos Sheraton hotel and the Four Points by Sheraton, Lekki they did not expect to see two ex Eagles players on parade.

He strikes as a subject of controversy to many including some who see him as over-zealous. But Rt. Hon. Innwa Garba who was the former Deputy Speaker and now Speaker of the fourth Gombe State House of Assembly radiates a passion to entrench a strong foundation for the Nigerian legislature. Calm and careful he is indeed a young man with lofty aspirations to leave his foot-prints on the sands of time. In this interview, the Speaker asserts his commitment to contribute his quota to lift Gombe from economic and political doldrum

In an apparent response to the suspension placed on trading of their shares on the floors of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Omatek Ventures Plc and United Nigeria Textiles, UNTL, Plc have submitted their financial statements for the 2010 financial year.