The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, has over the years built a strong reputation as one of the finest, efficient and patriotic public servants in contemporary Nigeria political sphere.

Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police has just launched a code of conduct and professional standards for the country’s police force. The code aims to “provide all members of the Nigeria Police Force with a set of guiding principles and standards of behaviour while on or off duty.”

ABUJA—Indications emerged Wednesday that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, might appear before members of Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives to clear the air on the query raised against the commission’s account by the Auditor-General of the Federation.

Rivers State Government, yesterday, pulled out of the peace talk with Bayelsa State Government aimed at resolving the disputed oil wells on the border towns of Oluasiri and Kula communities of the two states.

Days after part of his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State was recently engulfed in flames, a delegation of the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP visited to empathise with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. But beneath the veneer of the consolation was Obasanjo’s own admonition to the chieftains of the Lagos PDP to put their house in order, for according to him, winning Lagos State was doable.

YES, the more things change, the more they remain the same. Nigeria has moved, sometimes, forward and sometimes backward.

A popular Pidgin English adage says; ‘Na condition make crayfish bend’ literally, the shape of the crayfish is a result of the conditions it found itself in, (the difficulties of life make people do what they do). This best describes the case of Mr. Ikechukwu Okeke, the Managing Director, Bonachuks Chemical Industries Nigeria Limited.

No doubt, mainstream education in Nigeria grapples with many challenges. In some areas, even basic subjects as arithmetic, English language and the sciences lack qualified teachers, comprehensive funds, and complementary infrastructure. Be that as it may, the average student in a developed country is exposed to quality sports and computer education.

Captain Idris Wada’s one year in office no doubt has been very turbulent, given the series of challenges he was faced with in the past 365 days.

A professor of entrepreneurship at IE Business School, Spain, Mr. Peter Bryant, has cautioned entrepreneurs in Nigeria on the need to focus on customer acquisition and proper management of cash if they intend to avoid pitfalls that will lead to the collapse of their businesses.

BAYELSA—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has threatened to sanction the Chairmen of three local government areas of Bayelsa State for allegedly undermining the authority of the party.

Days after part of his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State was recently engulfed in flames, a delegation of the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP visited to empathise with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. But beneath the veneer of the consolation was Obasanjo’s own admonition to the chieftains of the Lagos PDP to put their house in order, for according to him, winning Lagos State was doable.

MAKURDI—NO fewer than 550 persons were reportedly displaced by the bloody conflict that broke out between Fulani herdsmen and Idoma farmers at Amla Village in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, expressed its determination to get to the root of the mystery surrounding the 18 dead bodies that were on January 19 discovered at River Ezzu which runs through Enugu and Anambra States.

National President of the legal body, Chief Okey Wali, SAN, who made the disclosure in Abuja, yesterday, said the association had already constituted a committee with a mandate to closely monitor investigations currently being conducted into the matter by security agencies.

THE struggle for factional hegemony within the PDP got messier last week, when Chief E.K. Clark, the grand Mandarin of Ijaw nationalism and “honorary godfather” to President Goodluck Jonathan, frontally took on the president’s most formidable ‘in-house’ opponents: The PDP governors and former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.