What I have always found interesting is whether life can be lived here the way it is lived normally in other countries, especially the ones we are fond of benchmarking our situation with. In the telecommunications arena, land lines are more like it in other climes, than mobile.

CHRIS HUHNE, 58, was until last week a member of Parliament representing the Eastleigh constituency in Hampshire, England. But after more than seven years in the parliament, the leading Liberal Democrat resigned his seat after admitting to swapping speeding points with his former wife, Vicky Pryce, in order not to lose his driving license in 2003.

THE Bankers Committee is set to introduce a consumer credit scheme that would pave the way for bank customers in Nigeria to enjoy consumer credits for the financing of household goods and other welfare enhancing packages as obtains in developed countries. The scheme is to begin between June and July this year.

Indications emerged yesterday that indicted former Commandant Infantry Centre Jaji, Major General M.D. Isah who is currently retired, may be recalled and made to face a court martial over negligence of duty that led to bombing of the Military Protestant Church in Jaji which killed over 20 people, including two Generals.

LOCAL government workers, under the aegis of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, yesterday, in Benin, Edo State, threatened to resist moves by some state governors to thwart plans for constitutional autonomy for local government councils in the country.

EKITI State University, EKSU, Alumni Association will, tomorrow, bestow an award on the Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, for his numerous assistance and deep association with his alma- mater. At a briefing in Ado Ekiti, yesterday, the national president of the association, Mr. Bola Ogunlayi, said Kuku would be the second beneficiary of the award since the inception of the association.

ALL over the world,unemployment has become a major headache to many leaders and their governments. In Nigeria, lack of jobs particularly the ones that could be regarded as gainful employment for the teeming youths and even graduates of various tertiary institutions, has defied many solutions. To a large extent too, the development has constituted a security threat.

THE Action Congress of Nigeria government in Oyo State, yesterday, asked for the refund of over N700million and property allegedly recovered from the former Governor of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

BARELY a week after four parties in Nigeria fused into one, ten governors under the platform of the newly-formed All Progressives’ Congress, APC, met in Abuja, yesterday, and picked zonal contact mobilisation coordinators for the country.

PARTS of Abeokuta the Ogun State capital, were paralyzed, yesterday, by hundreds of aggrieved members of the Truck Owners Association of Nigeria, TOAN, protesting the restriction order placed on the movement of their trucks and trailers by the state government.