FORTHWITH, no telecom base station may be sealed by any government agency without first reverting to the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and the Ministry of Environment.

It was a sharp twist for a people repeatedly classed as the happiest people on earth. Nigerians were said to like life so much that they would rather suffer brutal dictators than allow themselves to be inconvenienced by tear gas from demonstrations against bad government. But no longer.

THE 2011 general polls presented interesting scenarios. Those, who got elected had to wage a series of battles on many fronts – intra-party, inter-party and at the law courts.

A look at the direction of the Jonathan administration indicates that the government has good intentions of transforming the nation’s economy.

The six civil servants accused of complicity in the illegal diversion of N32.8 billion from the Nigeria Police Pension funds, yesterday, approached an Abuja High Court at Gudu, begging it to quash the 16-count criminal charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,