2012 would be a great year for Nigeria if, as it begins today, every citizen, on the basis of his professed competence and expertise resolves to contribute his quota to national development by offering professional advice to the nation in this first month of the year. An aggregation of the pieces of advice so obtained would surely impact positively on the nation.

I am a Christmas child. No, I was not born on Christmas day – but an exact week to Christmas – on the 18th of December – that last week of active shopping and frenzied last minutes preparation for Christmas celebrants. So imagine Nigeria on the 18th of December, 1966. Two coups had taken place earlier that year – one in January and the other on July.

A middle-aged man has been electrocuted in Ughelli, Delta State, while trying to fix a faulty cable supplying electricity from a new generation bank to his house.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph. – Emperor Haile Selassie, born Tafari Makonnen (1891-1974, ruler of Ethiopia for 44 years)

Chairman Senate Committee on Environment, Senator Bukola Saraki has expressed satisfaction on the prompt and effective way Shell responded on the Bonga oil spill.

The Special Offences Court in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, has arraigned one Mr. Nojimudeen Adebeshin, a 42 -year old motorcyclist popularly called “Okada” rider for violating traffic regulations along Mile 12 / Ikorodu Road.

While exchanging compliments of the season with the General Secretary of the NFF we thought it wise to pray for a year that should make us forget the night mare that was 2011. That is why one of my favorite wishes for the new year came from my friend Ibn Mohammed, who prayed for positive inputs from all of us, towards the betterment of our sports especially football in the coming year.

The Lagos State Government has made the conduct of geochemical tests of all sand sites compulsory for operators. This, among others will help determine the true value of sands as well as reduce the incidence of building collapse in the state.

No fewer than 7,000 policemen have been deployed to all the churches in Niger to protect worshippers during the New Year celebration in the state.

Kayode Ajulo, a lawyer, founder/ Chairman of the Board of Egalitarian Mission, Africa, a non-governmental organization maintaining and promoting the belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy equal social, political, and economic rights and opportunities, bares his mind on the issue of petrol subsidy removal and , the NNPC probe.