Airtel Nigeria’s Director of Regulatory Affairs and Special Projects, Osondu Nwokoro, has identified the exclusion of Telecommunications Operators (TELCOs) from playing very active roles in the implementation of mobile money as a major drawback to the uptake of the service.

The eerie calm in the security and socio-political space of Kaduna State, on Monday, burst into cataclysmic political excitement never seen since the death of its former governor, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, and the swearing-in of his deputy, Alh. Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, last December, to succeed him.

The National Stadium Surulere, Lagos is fast losing its ‘eco-beauty’ as the trees that once made the complex a greenery spectacle are being chopped down and sold for firewood.

Chief Sunday Akabueze is an activist, a business man and a financier of Labour Party. He bares his mind on why the Igbo must speak with one voice as the 2015 general elections draw nearer. He also explains why Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, his party’s candidate, is the man to beat at the November 16 elections in Anambra State .

UNTIL he was seized, four days ago, at about3.00 am, at an undisclosed hotel, in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, many people, including security officials, only mentioned his name in whispers. He was simply known as Kelvin, the most wanted kidnapper/armed robbery kingpin in Delta State, who hails from Kokori in Ethiope-East Local Government Area.

Feelers from some state governors at the weekend suggest that unless President Goodluck Jonathan issues an urgent directive to the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to release funds due to the 36 states, the President risks further isolation from this group of elected public officers.

As I was driving on a bridge in Lagos, I asked God a question.  When I looked up, I saw the answer boldly written on a billboard.  I was so flabbergasted; I started debating with myself if what I saw was a vision.  Therefore, I went back.

Hence, the Warrant Chiefs appointed by the British and vested with arbitrary powers hitherto unknown in Igboland were thoroughly disliked by the people. It was not surprising that most of them became tyrants who abused their authority with impunity. The use of these unpopular chiefs for taxation led to the Aba women riots of 1929.

The tense political atmosphere in Taraba State heightened, last night, following the arrest and detention of Senior Special Assistant to Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba by the police.

THE proposed investiture of a new Prelate for the Methodist Church Nigeria, scheduled for next Sunday, may not hold after all as the process that produced the Prelate-elect has been faulted by the immediate past Prelate of the church, Dr Sunday Mbang, who described the election as an ecclesiastical fraud of the highest order.

The Federal Government has accused the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) of being economical with the truth on lecturers prolonged industrial action in the universities.

THE Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led ‘New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP’, yesterday, condemned Friday’s judgment by the Federal High Court, Abuja declaring that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should delete Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola’s name from its records as PDP’s National Secretary, just as it vowed to appeal the judgment.

Professor Aderemi Ajekigbe, Head of Oncology and Radiology, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, in this interview with Sola Ogundipe, Health Editor, says late stage cancer has no cure. Ajekigbe adds that it is erroneous to think only females are susceptible to breast cancer. Men too, according to him, are prone to the cancer of the breast.

Authorities of the General Hospital, Asokoro have denied stopping the treatment of the victims of Apo, Abuja shooting incident contrary to a directive by the Federal Government.

Abuchi Obinwa’s father says his son is still open to the idea of playing for Nigeria in the future despite controversially failing an MRI scan that ruled him out of playing for their under-17 team.