WHILE writing on the UK riots last August, I had, here, traced some of the impulses that gave rise to the riots to certain economic and social inequities within the British society. I did not stop at that. I had extended my reading of the developments in the British society with regard to the riots to what I saw as related developments in other parts of Europe and America.

AS far as residents of Ejigbo in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, of Lagos State are concerned, the government headed by Babatunde Fashola has been most unfair to them with respect to the provision of infrastructural facilities, especially roads.

AS Nigerians continue to grit their teeth in agony over the missing out on the African Cup of Nations to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea next year, the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has finally agreed on how to solve the puzzle on whether to sack or retain coach Samson Siasia.

As the World Health Organisation, WHO, arrived in the country to screen seven pharmaceutical companies for possible WHO Pre-qualification Standard, indications, Tuesday, emerged that the prequalification programme would create over 250,000 jobs for unemployed Nigerians.

Ijaw of Egbema and Gbaramatu Kingdoms in Delta State have petitioned Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, expressing misgiving over perceived unhealthy collaboration between Chevron Nigeria Limited, Government of Delta and Ugborodo com-munity against other stake-holders in Escravos Gas to Liquid Project, EGTL.

SEPARATE motor accidents in two different parts of Ibadan Tuesday, left no fewer than 12 people dead while 16 others were severely injured. The victims included two school children.

LAGOS-Wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs Abimbola Fashola, Tuesday urged the Senate not to pass a bill before it to legalise prostitution in the country.

Convulsion is a medical condition in which a person’s body appears to shake in an uncontrollable manner. A person with seizures or epilepsy may experience convulsions and when this happens, the muscles quickly contract and relax repeatedly, causing the appearance of rapid shaking movements.

IJAW youths in Edo State has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on the political leaders in the state to cede the position of the state representative in the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to Ijaw when constituting a new board.

The Federal Government, Tuesday, denied favouring the Niger Delta region at the expense of other geo-political zones in the country in the distribution of developmental projects.

THE Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has urged the Federal Government to ban the importation of electric bulbs into the country.

The World bank has said that all players in African Global System for Mobile Communications networks, GSM, Nigeria inclusive would need about $15.5bn to enhance GSM coverage across the continent.

A University don, Professor Oluyemisi Adebowale, has said Nigeria can only be relevant in the global politics if she rejuvenates and sustains its indigenous languages.

DESPITE the global economic downturn, the representative of Messe Dusseldorf , a Germany based firm, said arrangement has been concluded for the Drupa 2012 print media exhibition fair in which about 230,000 participants and visitors are expected.

Edo State chieftain of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Chief Osamudiamen Obamwonyi, Tuesday, berated former member representing the state on the Board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Matthew Iduoriyekemwen and former Editor-in-Chief of Insider Magazine, Mr. Osa Director, over their comments against Governor Adams Oshiomhole on the provi-sion of infrastructures in the state.