At last, government has arranged for “security” to take the lion share of our nation’s budget for next year. According to President Jonathan who delivered the budget speech last Tuesday, government would spend ?921billion to ensure the security of lives and property.

People who had fears of the fast dwindling culture of the Igbo person were reassured and consoled on Friday 7th, October at Umuafai, Ndume, two kilometers away from the city centre.

Since 1985 when the former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida adopted the IMF economic model in Nigeria, the issue of “fuel subsidies” has become recurrent in Nigeria’s annual economic grammar. In 1989 and 1990, Nigerian students led a nation-wide protest against the anti-SAP policies of the military government, one of whose cardinal thrusts was the partial removal of oil subsidies.

Director-General, National Agency for Food & Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, has condemned the prevalence of counterfeit and fake drugs in the country, urging the authorities to collaborate with youth corps members and traditional rulers to stem the tide.

On Friday, December 23, 2011, it will be exactly 10 years since the former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, was assassinated in his home in Ibadan, Oyo State. Ige was killed shortly after a trip from Lagos with his son. In this interview, the son, Muyiwa, now the commissioner in charge of lands and physical planning in Osun State, speaks on the night of the murder, the controversial trial of those suspected to be behind it, why his father wanted to quit the cabinet of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo, and many more. Excerpts:

lBAGAUDA KALTO, of the News magazine, abducted from his room in Durbar Hotel and murdered during the Abacha dictatorship. Since then, there have been no clues as to who did it.

THERE is no gainsaying that the security situation in Abia State is one of the best in the country today going by reports available across the country.

If there are people not surprised that ASUU is back on strike, they are the faculty and students of UniJankara – Seat of Street Wisdom. We don’t blow grammar like the Professors of ASUU do, but we know when we are dealing with con-men – even if they are called Presidents and Vice-Presidents.

THE Benin Zonal Office of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) has received the first batch of 47 girls who are indigenes of Edo and Delta States evacuated from Mali `slave camps’.

Confusion enveloped Kolobo, Abeokuta, Ogun State when a two-year old Mustapha Ibrahim was found dead in a well near her mother’s shop. The toddler had been declared missing.