A Few weeks ago, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, (representing Bayelsa West) tabled a motion before the Senate seeking to declare the Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) test conducted by universities across the country illegal.

ON Monday, November 14, 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan formally decorated the 354 members of the Nigerian elite, who won this year’s National Honours amidst pomp, pageantry and tight security in the nation’s capital, Abuja.

Eagles coach Stephen Keshi revealed his frustration with midfielder, John Obi Mikel who failed to play in the two friendly games against Botswana and Zambia.

Almost six months into his stewardship of Gombe State, Governor Ibrahim Dakwambo is yet to form a cabinet. His problems have now been compounded by the death of his deputy, David Abashi.

BENIN-FORMER Special Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on Projects Monitoring, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, Wednesday, denied rumours that he had withdrawn from the state governorship race on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Wednesday, scoffed at Tuesday’s brawl in the Senate over alleged non-performance by President Goodluck Jonathan, stressing that the poor security situation cited for the anger of the National Assembly was not the only challenges facing the nation.

THE Police Assistance Committee, PAC, is restrategising on how its members nation-wide could liaise with the State Security Service, SSS, and Police for information gathering and dissemination to prevent and combat crime in the country.

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State is to launch a compendium on his achievements in the state from May 2007 to date by June.

Enugu State Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday reached a compromise over the modalities for the implementation of the new minimum wage for workers in the state.

OTUNBA Eddie Aderionkun is blazing another trail in the field of entertainment. On November 18th, he is bringing Nigeria’s most progressive business brains together in an attempt to get financiers for the first truly breakthrough international film directed by a Nigerian.

WHETHER a political system is democratic or totalitarian, nothing is more important to its continued existence than its selection of candidates for office. This is so because some of these candidates will eventually run the government.

Farmers in Abia State, under the auspices of All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, are making desperate efforts to obtain the organisation’s identification cards as a pre-requisite to accessing the Federal Government N1 billion agricultural loan.

EVERY 16th of November is a golden opportunity to reflect on essentials of leadership as Africa remembers one of her heroes, Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, a foremost pan- Africanist. The Zik of Africa as popularly known was born in Zungeru, in today’s Niger State in 1904. Young Zik travelled to the United States in 1925 in quest for education.

Whether considering the decision of the Calabar High Court in Suit No: HCIMSC.328/2004, Suit No: FHClCA/CS/28/2006 filed before the lower court does not constitute an abuse of court processes and the applicants estopped from filing further applications in the Federal High Court, Calabar.

A good number of companies in the country are owing the Federal Government a whopping N170 billion on taxes. Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala disclosed this in Abuja. Dr Iweala said the federal government would ensure that the tax system work in Nigeria in her paper on Nigeria: Implementing an Investor Friendly Transformation Agenda.