THE Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Edo State chapter has described as unconstitutional the move by the 18 local government councils in the state to ban its members from operating in the councils.

I’ll begin with a response to the Orbit online by a reader of this column last week who went by the name “Oladeji Y.” I’m far less troubled by the grammatical infelicities of his response as by his distortions and ignorance of historic facts. It reflects the quality of our education that at this level, awareness of Nigerian history is scandalously low among Nigerians. As a result, national discourse frequently slips into extremely vacuous ethnic and polemical diatribe. Oladeji Y rapidly makes the discussion of the “nationality” question his own comeuppance on the Igbo.

National Union of Banks, Insurance and other Financial Institutions Employees, NUBIFIE, has called on the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Malam Lamido Sanusi, to initiate monetary polices that would create jobs in the banking industry, rather than reforms capable of increasing unemployment in the economy.

For months now, Lanra Dabiri aka Eldee had practically vanished from the public eye causing many to wonder if he was in the country or had relocated to elsewhere.