FOR the umpteenth time a people living in darkness have been promised that gloom will give way to light by December 2013. Ordinarily, the pledge would have elicited unrivaled enthusiasm across the country, given that light would finally shine in a land overshadowed by darkness, but the reverse is the case.

Authorities of the Nigerian Army have issued ten Major Generals letters of retirement from the force with immediate effect, with some of them expected to proceed on retirement by December this year while some have already gone.

After a dull Monday afternoon, the Super Eagles camp at the Transcorp Metropolitan Hotel came alive on Tuesday afternoon with almost all the top actors already in town, though only 12 of them trained in the evening session at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, cleared the way for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to freeze the illicit property of two of the prime suspects in the looting of the Police Pension fund to the tune of about N33 billion.

IF those that wanted to snuff life out of the philanthropic and amiable popular transporter and Chairman of Young Shall Grow Motors, Chief Vincent Obianodo, had succeeded, his last words on earth could have been the wild exclamation which he uttered as soon as the hoodlums started firing volleys of bullets into his car, penultimate Tuesday.

Commissioner for Insurance, Mr. Fola Daniel has decried the persistence of low level financial literacy in Nigeria and some other African countries which is the cause of low insurance penetration in such places.

Managing Director of Linkage Assurance Plc, Mr. Gus Wiggle has said that the insurance industry is grappling with inadequate infrastructure and unstable weather which exposed insured assets to natural disasters such as floods.

Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos have foiled an attempt by an eight-man robbery gang to smuggle two trucks of drugs worth over N20 million from May&Baker company in Oba Akran area of Ikeja.

A FITTING culmination to his political career in this period was the singular honour that was bestowed on him when he was selected to move in 1958, on the floor of the House of Representatives, the resolution which formally demanded Independence for Nigeria in 1960.

UGHELLI—NIGER Delta ex-militants Phase II leaders, Tuesday, issued a one month ultimatum to the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, to release the unpaid allowances to members of the various camps in the phase or risk another round of crisis in the region.