President Goodluck Jonathan conferred the honour of CFR on the Comptroller General of Customs, even as he expressed great pleasure on the activities of the NCS under the current management. How would you describe the honour?

“I want to see a situation where bank depositors can go to sleep with their two eyes closed”. Professor Chukwumah Soludo, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, August 2004. And for Soludo, security could only be guaranteed by creating banks which were “too big to fail. Like the author of the great ship, called Titanic whose builder boasted that “even God cannot sink it,” Soludo, as we had noted earlier, got his wish.

Nigerian Premier League top scorer with 20 goals, Jude Aneke has assured that he would fill in the gap for the absence of top Dream Team V players at the Africa U-23 Championship to pick the continent’s flagbearers at the 2012 London Olympics billed for Morocco this month.

The effort of National Planning Commission (NPC) to return the country to the era of strategic planning, after decades of absence, received a boost following the pledge by the Senate Committee on National Planning, Economic Affairs and Poverty to support the NPC succeed in the quest.

Edo State Commissioner for Information, Louis Odion, in a syndicated interview with some political reporters, purportedly in Lagos, seized the occasion of the anniversary of his boss, Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s third year in office, to hurl uncharitable tirade at Chief Tony Anenih, the Iyasele of Esanland and national leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Helen, I’m away from Lagos and at my daughter’s place in Epe. I don’t know when I’ll be back to my house.” When I received this text some days ago from a former classmate who’s a federal government retiree, I was a bit agitated.

INDUSTRIAL Training Fund, ITF, is to set up thirty seven vocational training centers across the country as part of its effort to reduce youth unemployment.

In 1976, the 49 -man Constitution Drafting Committee, headed by the late Chief Rotimi Williams, received 346 memoranda from various groups, individuals and government agencies, on how best to produce a new constitution for Nigeria.

An expert in economic management is seeking the application of macro-prudential supervision in ensuring financial sector stability for optimum growth.

A 37year-old tiler has been arraigned before an Abuja Magistrate Court by the police for an attempt to snatch a car from one Usman Isiaka Abba.