WE will return to the government’s need to remove the subsidy later and the alternate ways it can spend the funds so people will see results rather than pepper. But first, let’s consider the issue from the vantage point of “the people”-or at least from the perspective of those who purport to speak for them.

BACK in 1988 when General Ibrahim Babangida wanted to embark on the first round of removal of subsidy on petroleum products, it unleashed a blistering campaign that Nigeria was the only country in the world where a bottle of Coca cola, then sold at 5 kobo, was cheaper than a litre of fuel that was sold at 2 kobo per pump price.

THIS is unprecedented! Twenty-four hours to tomorrow’s elections into 20 Local Councils and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) of Lagos State, the authentic candidates for the polls are not known. The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) is yet to publish the lists as of press time yesterday.

The Ekiti State Government yesterday raised an alarm over an alleged plan by some unnamed politicians to destabilise the state through the circulation of inciting documents.

The Financial sector instability in Europe and the US is very likely to be transmitted into the Nigerian financial and capital markets, according to a report published by Resource and Trust Company, RTC, Limited.

LAST week, I went to a funeral in Yenagoa – my first visit to the state capital of Bayelsa for ages. And I spotted a huge poster that really moved me. It had a full-length photograph of President Jonathan on it. And he was striding forward purposefully and smiling broadly like someone who feels on top of the world.

Often, the blame for our pain rests on the simple choices we make every day. Unknowingly, most of the pain we experience results from common lifestyles and everyday dressing. Our lifestyles have been found to provide poor arch support, leading to pain in the feet, ankles, and knees.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Thursday, said Governors were consulted before Federal Govern-ment launched the Sovereign Wealth Fund with $1 billion last Tuesday as against insinuations in some quarters that they were not consulted.

AHEAD of next year’s governorship election in Edo State, high level intrigues, plots, blackmail, name-calling and political witch-hunting have started in earnest, especially in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the State. It is obvious that in the days ahead, more of it will resurrect among those who are posing and pretending to be members of the party, but in the actual sense they are moles who were on a suicide mission to disintegrate the party and pave way for the ruling party, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to win again in the forthcoming election.