Uncertainty fired by a web of intrigues, last night, shadowed aspirations of three of the nation’s governors ahead of today’s election of a new chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum

Eulogies and tributes have continued to trail the death and burial of literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe. Eminent personalities, heads of governments, his literary community, the academia, socio-cultural groups, to mention a few, have had glowing things to say about this popular author at different fora and in the media.

CHAIRMAN,Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory Committee, Senator Smart Adeyemi (PDP, Kogi West), yesterday, said President Goodluck Jonathan has recovered the dead Ajaokuta Steel Complex in Kogi State from Global Steel Holdings Limited.

Ex-BBA winner, Wendall Parson during the week was arrested over false car insurance claims after he was involved in an accident with his car two months ago.

THE Ijaw Peoples Congress,IPC, yesterday, called on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; the Inspector-General of Police; Director-General, Department of State Service, DSS, and Minister of Petroleum Resources to call Integrated Data Servicing Nigeria Limited, IDSL, to order, over its alleged manipulation of some communities in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.

THE Plantation Owners Forum of Nigeria, POFON has cautioned the Federal Government to be wary of some companies in Nigeria, which have begun trading in imported Crude Palm Oil, CPO, explaining that it had informed the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development about the threat that mass importation and dumping of CPO poses to the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, ATA of government.

LAWYER, activist, Mike Igini is the Cross River State Resident Electoral Commissioner. In this interview, he called for the decentralization of the policing system in Nigeria as a way of assisting current efforts at fighting insecurity, frowns at illegal appropriation of funds by public officials among other issues. Excerpts:

Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) is shopping for investors under a Public-Private Partnership initiative to drive railway operations in the country.

FRANTZ FANON is reputed for his unassailable postulation that:“History will not forgive those men who have the exceptional privilege of speaking the words of truth, but have decided to take refuge in an attitude of captivity, mute indifference and sometime cold complicity”.

…To receive monthly allocation “only for salaries,” as instructed by Jonathan
ABUJA — The Senate and the House of Representatives, Thursday, formally blocked the governors of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states from having complete access to their states’ funds.

Today, everybody talks about corruption without any concrete suggestion as to how this common disease could be cured. The general impression is that every Nigerian is corrupt in one way or the other. It is like the ailment of malaria whose causes are well known, yet Nigerians prefer usage of drugs rather than the eradication of the causes of the disease, as an effective solution.

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, CON, has maintained that effective e-payment system was critical to banking services in the country.

Mr Chukwuemeka Eke has urged the Federal Government to include date palm in its Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) to ensure food security and combat desertification.

In the bid to recognise actors, individuals, corporate bodies, government and its agencies that have contributed immensely to the growth of the nation’s motion picture industry, the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has concluded plans to organise its own award ceremony known as the Screen Actors Award.

Though better admired for his playwriting, many followers of the Nobel Laureate find his prose rather overbearing, even haughty. Yet, it is this particular part of its nature that confers on it the insignia of importance, importance not being the equivalent here of big words.