Norway has entered into a strategic partnership with PEM Offshore to promote local content in the Nigerian maritime and oil and gas sector.

It was inside the Dubai Mall, that the idea to write this piece began to gestate in my mind. We had done a flight from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to Dubai on the last leg of our trip to China and Indo-China. Dubai was supposed to be a wind down, on the way back home.

IT was indeed a celebration of culture as the National Troupe of Nigeria, the Bayelsa State Cultural Troupe and the Kwara State Cultural Troupe showcased different types of Nigerian dance at the opening ceremony at the second Nigerian Cultural Week held in Nanjing Province, China recently.

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has expressed worry over the failure of the government to resolve the logjam in the universities occasioned by the lingering dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the Federal Government.

The recent outbreak of cholera in different parts of the country once again reminds us of the pathetic conditions under which our people, especially the illiterate and poor, daily contend with.

Left to me, this conference call by President Goodluck Jonathan will be transformed to a great opportunity for the nation.

OIL has since become the mainstay of our economy. But oil is a depleting asset, which means that someday oil wells will dry up. Besides, the entire world is busy seeking alternatives to oil. Essentially, oil will not remain on the king’s throne much longer. Our desire is that oil boom should not degenerateto oil doom.

After watching his side defeat Iran 4-1 Tuesday at the Khalifa Bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain, Coach Manu Garba has predicted that his free-scoring boys will beat Uruguay in Saturday’s quarterfinal match in Sharjah.

A maritime practitioner and Master Mariner, Captain Adewale Ishola, has urged the federal government to stop direct disbursement of the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund (CVFF) to intending beneficiaries to avert the collapse of the scheme.

THE Federal Government has commenced the enactment of new laws that will checkmate the activities of pirate attacks and related crimes against ships at sea.

Trouble is brewing at the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, AOCOED, Ijanikin, Lagos, over N48 million pension fund allegedly un-remitted, and N188million perceived ‘missing’ staff cooperative fund.

The Annual General General meeting of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, has been scheduled to hold in Gombe State from November 27 to November 29.

The Ukwa/Ngwa Grassroots Youth Forum, UGYF, has urged political stakeholders in the state to uphold the tenets of the Abia Charter of Equity as envisioned by the state’s founding fathers.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, ASUP, emergency congress held in Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, was disrupted following an alleged attack on the Union’s officials, by one Mr. Amobi Chiamogu, an aide of the Polytechnic Rector, leading to destruction of official documents belonging to ASUP.

Precisely on October 15, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, the immediate past President of the Court of Appeal (PCA) clocked the 70 years mandatory retirement age for justice of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.