President Goodluck Jonathan, Sunday, assured Nigerians of improved living conditions and security of lives and property in 2012 and beyond. The President gave the assurance in his New Year message to the nation.

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)