FACTS have emerged that the outlawing of motorcycle, otherwise known as okada transportation in Warri, Effurun and Asaba in Delta State, November 1, by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, was impelled chiefly by very serious threats to the security of the state.

THE Anglo-American society think that leaders should be held to the highest behavioural standards so that they can be an example to the nation to avoid gutter behaviour. Leadership is a brand, and needs to be maintained at the highest moral standards.

FOR the sake of equity and moral justice, Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Inter-Party Affairs, Senator Ben Ndi Obi, has backed the quest of Anambra North Senatorial District to produce the next governor of Anambra State in 2014.

THE subprime mortgage financial crisis started as an issue in the United States of America early in 2007. By 2008 it had blossomed into a global financial crisis. Whenever the US economy sneezes, the global economy shivers. Today, it is the fiscal cliff that is causing yet a stare in the global economy.

ILORIN—THE Federal Government has directed that all engineering and construction projects below N5 billion in the Ministry of Works be reserved for local contractors as from January 2013.