The bad news of attack on the United Nations Building in Abuja was followed by another worse tale of deadly clashes in Jos. The story is the same inspite of efforts by security forces to stop the terrible acts of terrorism.

IBADAN should not be one of the places to be associated with flood disasters for the simple reason that for decades, its Ogunpa River has been the best advertisement for what disasters can visit on a poorly planned city.

I DID ask in my last piecewhether the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Katsina-Alu, is above the law. I ask because, for me, while respect for the office of the CJN should remain sacrosanct, men or women who occupy this exalted office must be subjected to critical scrutiny. This is crucial in order to prevent their personality traits from bringing infamy to this highly revered office.

It would have been the perfect case, particularly given the crime scene, as it were. The French had a poor (or no) history of giving up their indicted. Creative America was still smarting from the Roman Polanski, the hugely talented French-Polish movie director, producer and actor who was arrested in 1977 for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl and pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful sex with a minor. To avoid sentencing, Polanski had fled to his home in London, and then moved on to France.

Having mobilized resources to facilitate several infrastructure projects in a state that was before his advent termed forsaken, Governor Adams Oshiomhole should have been considered invisible in next year’s gubernatorial elections. The former ruling party under the guide of its aging leadership is, however, reinventing itself for a strike at the Comrade Governor’s weak point.

They are both retired military generals andseptuagenarians. They are both Grand Commanders of the Federal Republic. They both enjoyed the rare privilege of ruling the Giant of Africa for as many years as the greatest and best achieving American president ever had no privilege to surpass.

Biologists tell us that playis serious business—a dress rehearsal for the real challenges an animal is likely to face later in its life. If they are correct, then a sports festival is something more than fun and games.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State Thursday charged the eight members of the reconstituted Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission, ODIEC, to ensure credible council elections.

INDUSTRIAL crisis in Osun state over the implementation of the N18.000 new minimum wage has taken a new twist as labour leaders in the state have dissociated themselves from the N19,001 minimum wage announced by the government last week.