Pension has remained a key electioneering and governance issue as governments and political parties around the world seek better ways to cater for the welfare of workers who have retired due to old age, attainment of mandatory years of service, downsize of workforce, injury or sickness.

The Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Ports and Terminals Multi-services Limited, PTML, Command, yesterday, said it collected a total revenue of N73.21 billion in 2013.

If there’s any country that has experienced the digital revolution in its entirety, it is Nigeria. The GSM boom from 2001 changed the face of technology. But it didn’t end there; it birthed a new culture for the Nigerian people, creating funny habits, language and traditions. Perhaps it might be imperative to give insight on some of them:

Top humour merchant and one of Africa’s most successful comedians, Francis Agoda, popularly known as I Go Dye, isn’t to be addressed any more like an ordinary individual. The Edo State-born comedian has had the appellation of ‘Ambassador’ added to his name. At least, that is the verdict of the United Nations who bestowed on him the honour of a United Nations Millennium Development Goal Ambassador.

UGHELLI-DELTA State Local Government Transition Committee Chairmen, yesterday, said the state governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan augment allocations of the councils’ with over N500 million on monthly basis, insisting that their allocations had not been tempered with by the state government as reported in the media.

Mr. Robert Ekutmfon Umoette is among the strong contenders for the governorship position in Akwa Ibom Stake. He speaks on the performance of President Goodluck Jonathan in his first tenure in office, the pitfalls of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the just concluded election in Anambra state and INEC’s readiness to conduct credible elections in 2015.

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Kano State branch, has honoured the Minster of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina.
The event, which was organised in collaboration with Kano State agro suppliers, was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja.

The out-going Flag Officer Commanding FOC, Western Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy, Rear Admiral E. Ogbor, has said that his command was able to arrest several illegal bunkerers, pipeline vandals, sea robbers and pirates, who were paraded before newsmen and handed over to the appropriate authorities.

Some residents of Oshodi Local Government Area last week, stormed the office of the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, IKEDC, Mafoluku, Oshodi to protest alleged extortion by IKEDC officials and incessant blackout in the area. The protest which lasted several hours paralysed activities in the council area.

THE reality of the Nigerian situation has remained an enigma as the Nigerian people themselves. It is a fact that the many nations that had inhabited a lovely and naturally endowed plain called Nigeria in the past one hundred years are yet to understand themselves to actually evolve as one nation.