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It’s the same one you’ve always and modern day traditions have not been able to sweep it away.

BENIN—EDO State chapter of the Nigerian Postal Service Pensioners Wednesday said that over 100 of its members have died due to non-payment of pensions and gratuities, blaming the situation on the Post Master General of the Federation, Alhaji Mori-Baba, who they alleged, withheld their entitlements in the last seven years.

THE impression of the year 2012 by many Nigerians is that, though the Government of President Goodluck Jonathan has tried to transform the economic and political scenes, the efforts have been less edifying. Many commentators and analysts believe that the country has got much less than it desired in the past years, considering the opportunities afforded by immense material and human resources.

The President, Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers, NCRIB, Mrs. Laide Osijo has said the council has mobilised brokers at all level in the fight against the activities of charlatans in the brokerage business.

THE deportation of the wife of Obi of Igbodo community in Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State, recently, has divided the community, just as feelers from the state government circle indicate that the warring factions might be summoned to Government House, Asaba, for the issue to be resolved.

ABUJA—Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, Thursday, said security agencies did not need any goading from the President to go after those pasting posters of President Goodluck Jonathan for 2015 elections, if the security agencies felt the activities of those people were capable of compromising public peace in the country.

Dr. Diran Makinde, is the director of the AU/NEPAD-African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE) based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The centre is in the forefront of building functional bio safety regulatory systems that will make it possible for government to adopt simple agricultural biotechnology for improved agricultural production.

I RECENTLY told you that a friend recently told me that when he attended a school reunion dinner in Lagos, 80 percent of the ex-classmates on his table said that they were so unhappy with the status quo that they would gladly flee to foreign climes if they could get their hands on foreign work permits.

Dutch legend, Johan Cryuff, who has adopted Catalonia as his home country was full of praises for the Super Eagles display against his country on Wednesday in an international friendly at the home ground of La Liga side; Espanyol.

There was pandemonium at the Ebute Ero end of the Lagos Island in the early hours of Sunday following the sudden appearance of an Arabic inscription ALLAH (God) on a patch of dry cement, on end of the road leading to Ebute Ero Welfare Association Market, Lagos Island Local Government, few meters away from the Police Division in the area.