“Those fighting the government in the media are doing so because we have been able to frustrate their efforts in strangulating the economy through their devilish black market and questionable profiteering at the expense of the Nigerian people…What is hurting them is that we have put policies in place where they can no longer cheat the government and cause untold hardship to millions of Nigerians”, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, Minister of Petroleum Resources, in PUNCH, Friday, November 9, 2012, p 13.

Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets are up against a strong Malian opponent in today’s African Under-17 Championship qualifier, at the U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar and the team are being expected to up their game and make the second leg a less cumbersome enterprise.

Trouble may be looming over allocations from the Federation Account to the states as feelers from the North indicate that the governors believe they are not getting a fair share from the nation’s commonwealth.

I am from Uromehe community in Urhonigbe North ward, Oriomnwon local government council of Edo State. I was born 55 years ago, attended St Pius Primary School, Uromehe as it then was, now Iyobosa Primary School; it was a Catholic institution. From there I wrote my common entrance examination and passed.I had the choice of attending either ICC, Edo College or Western Boys High School,but, because I am a Catholic, I chose to attend Immaculate Conception College (ICC), Benin. When I finished at the ICC, I proceeded to the United States immediately where I got my first degree in political science and thereafter to the Law School where i got my doctor in jurisprudence degree. I proceeded again to specialize in international and comparative law in Washington. After that, I came back to Nigeria and went to the Law School;i was called to the Bar on October 17, 1986.

The Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hotel was on Tuesday 30th October besieged by the creme-de la-creme of the Nigerian and African society. It was a case of a rare feat that can only be achieved by a rare gem.