Last week Friday, I was at the international wing of the Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with two other columnists. As we waited for a friend to arrive in a different flight, an item on the front page of THE Sun newspaper caught our attention: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had paid a visit to the family of Babakura Fugu, the brother-in-law of the leader of Mohammed Yusuf, the slain Boko Haram leader.

In response to a barrage of questions from journalists on the Plateau issues [SIC], Jang angrily said: “Am I God to end Jos crisis…He wondered why people were particular about insecurity in Plateau. ‘Is Plateau the only place that has security problem? Security situation is all over the country, so why are you so particular about Plateau State?”- DAILY TRUST, Wednesday, September 14, 2011.

The meeting or conference might grant the Moslem states the right to demolish Christian churches and to prevent the erection of new ones. But there, it must also grant the Christian states similar rights, to uproot existing mosques and abolish the construction of new ones in their own areas.

National Pension Commission,PenCom, has said it is taking some drastic steps to recover un-remitted pension funds from defaulting organizations, lamenting that one of the greatest challenges facing the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, in Nigeria is non-remittance of deducted funds by private sector organizations.

Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, a senior advocate, SAN is the Ondo state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice. In this interview he spoke on the National Minimum Wage Act 2010, Freedom of Information Act, call for merger of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, amnesty for Boko Haram, and other issues.

As the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, warms up for its warning strike scheduled to commence next Monday, it has appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to live up to her responsibility to avoid further disruptions in the education sector.

FORMER Managing Director of the of the defunct Nigerian National Shipping Lines (NNSL), Mr Gerald Chidi, has warned that if adequate preparation are not made to expand the current port facilities, the current trend of cargo throughput could lead to an explosion of import.

AFTER series of appeals to oil majors and other stakeholders in the oil sector including policy incentives to encourage the rebuilding of the Nigerian domestic refining capacity, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, yesterday in Accra declared that it does not have any such investment plan for the country.

Enyimba enjoy one advantage over Heartland as both teams prepare for the F A Cup final this weekend in Lagos.

Ahead of the Court Ordered Extra Ordinary General Meeting (EGM) slated next week for the proposed banks’ merger, there have been concerns among stakeholders in the industry as per the benefits to shareholders and the economy in general. The ongoing Nigerian banking industry reform necessitated for the banks’ merger as a means of meeting the minimum N25 billion capital base required by the apex regulator, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Speakers at the annual public seminar of the Lagos zone of the Rosicrusian Order, AMORC, in Ikeja, with the theme, “National Intergration for Global Relevance,’’ have proffered ways out of tackling the challenges of national integration.

National chairman of Urhobo Strategic Group, Mr. Festus Arhagba, has said that since Delta Central and South have had their share of the governorship of Delta State, Delta North will produce the next governor of the state in 2015.

Key stakeholders in the Nigerian economy and the financial sector, led by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido and the Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga are set to parley and explore ways to attract foreign investors, agricultural development, employment generation and increase in the country’s internally generated revenue.

Leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State, Wednesday, accused the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, of employing instruments of blackmail as a way of relegating to the background, all the achievements of Governor Martin Elechi in the past four years.

Abia State Police Command, Wednesday, launched what it called Operation total war against criminals in ‘ember’ months, promising to give the people of the state a crime-free Christmas season.