BY now, readers of this column will have noticed that I keep coming back to the issue of MDRI in the last few editions of the column. If we are not done with it, then we are not done; pardon me. I will now share with you, my readers, excerpts from the Afrinvest 2011 Insurance Sector Report titled Trotting at the Pace of Reforms.

The insurance sector has consistently been considered as the weakest link in the Anti Money Laundering/Combating Financial Terrorism, AML/CFT chain, the National Insurance Commission has said.

President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday said despite the several challenges the country is facing as a nation it would continue to remain one indivisible country.

The Nigerian Navy has successfully completed the construction of a locally made vessel, the first of its kind in the West African subregion, the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral OláIbrahim said.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, says the army is combat-ready to deal with terrorists in the country.

The UN Security Council will meet at 2:30 pm (1830 GMT) Sunday in the wake of a massacre in Syria, diplomats said, as Russia put off moves by members to release a statement on the killings.

Gunmen shot dead three card players in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, which has been rocked by deadly attacks blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram in recent months, police said Sunday.

…Customers escape death
A-23-year old woman, Blessing Eyo Okon, was, on Friday afternoon, electrocuted when a Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, cable cut and fell at the corridor of her hair dressing shop as a result of a stormy rain in Calabar, Cross River State capital. The incident occurred at 25, Mount Zion Road, Calabar.

One of the wise sayings that never fails to intrigue me, is the tale about the tortoise, that was picked up by a superior force, he begged his captor to allow him a minute of freedom. When this was granted, the tortoise on being let down, went about unearthing and scattering the bushes around.

It is not gainsaid that the advent of both Euro-Christian and Arab-Islamic civilisations into indigenous communities that constitute Nigeria has negatively affected the cultural heritage of these communities.