The imperative of PIB
As the sector operators,stakeholders and industry watchers patiently await the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), presently before the National Assembly for constitutional legislative considerations, it is auspicious to reflect on the issues that generated the hunger, appetite and eventual feeding of Nigerian hydrocarbon industry with new operational guidelines christened PIB to garner momentum to drive the needed impetus. The bill was conceptualised about five years ago and has suffered prolonged political and institutional setbacks.
Saka’s porta-movement and functional advertising
The one interesting thing about advertising is its flamboyance.With advertising, anything can go. Advertising enables what has come to be known as ‘free-styling’; full of entertainment, thrills, excitement and laughter. There is really no limit to which advertising can go, to create humor. It is in the neighborhood of advertising most of our “NOLLYWOOD” home-video play – ENTERTAINMENT!
“How al-Qaeda, Boko Haram smuggle arms into Nigeria”
Proliferation of small arms and light weapons is increasingly and dangerously becoming a transnational organized crime in Nigeria with Boko Haram’s insurgency, re-emerging Niger Delta crisis and escalating kidnapping, communal crises and armed robbery in the South East providing impetus for arms trafficking. Some border towns, particularly in the North Eastern flank, serve as a hub for trafficking of arms as well as stolen goods, drugs and hostages by criminals, terrorists and their collaborators. The recent kidnap of a French family at a border town between Nigeria and Cameroon is an example. Similarly, many arms and ammunition of various types, sizes and calibre have been intercepted and confiscated by security agencies. The recurrent detection and recovery of cache of arms, ammunition and Improvised Explosive Device Materials by the Joint Task Force, JTF, further buttresses the point. Similarly, the occasional recovery of stolen goods and hard drugs from criminals and terrorists’ camps or hideouts is an indication that the illicit trade has been on the rise in recent times.
Nasarawa killing fields, a cult and blood oath
Questions are trailing the killing of about 60 policemen in Nasarawa State, last week. What led to the deployment of over a hundred mobile policemen in the operation? Was there any fighting going on there? Was that the last option left to arrest anybody or group suspected to be carrying any act of criminality by the police? Where was the intelligence aspect of the police? How many people were they going to arrest before deploying such a large number of armed mobile police with eleven operational vehicles? What is Ombatse group all about? Is it a cult group? Was that the first attempt to arrest such group in Nasarawa?
Family of Supreme Court Justice kidnapped
ARMED men suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the wife and daughter of a Supreme Court Judge, (names withheld).
The driver of the vehicle was also abducted.The victims were travelling from Lagos to Edo State, ahead of the judge’s daughter’s wedding
CPC dissolves into APC
The National Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday in Abuja announced that the party had dissolved into the All Progressives Congress (APC).
