The Minister of Tourism, Chief Edem Duke, says carnival is multi-billion dollar business, which Nigeria ’s economy needs to tap into in order to grow capacity in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across the country.

Biographers are sometimes said to fall in love with their subjects. And this explains why the duo of Mike Awoyinfa and Dimgba Igwe recently embarked on a trip into the past to rewrite the story of Segun Osoba, the turnaround media manager and all seasons reporter who blazed many trails and discovered new grounds during his over four decades career in journalism.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, said he would not interfere in the administration of the state. He said the responsibility of governance of his home state lies in the hands of the governor and his team as well as the Peoples Democratic Party at the state level.

There is a school of thought that says a human being is a sum total of all his life’s experiences. We are shaped by the things we go through and whether we express our feelings or not we are changed by the emotions that are there. The world we live in does not afford anyone the liberty of being transparent.

“Fresh evidence shows that Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) used Halliburton bribe money for the 2003 campaign that gave former President Olusegun Obasanjo a second term in office. Our investigations show that a significant portion of the $180 million bribe was given to the party through the presidency [emphasis mine], which doled out the money using cheques”. NEXT ON SUNDAY, July 5, 2009.