Efforts of the Nigeria Customs Service to meet its annual revenue target and ensure efficient port operations are being threatened by frequent breakdown of its information technology system.

Impressive progress in agricultural science and food production has helped significantly in feeding the world’s growing population over the past 30 years.

AS the National Judicial Council, NJC, intensifies its effort to determine the culpability or otherwise of about 23 judges accused of complicity in acts of judicial malpractices, a retiring judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adamu Bello, yesterday, called for caution and adduced reasons for the seeming widespread corruption within the judiciary.

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has thrown its weight behind the 21-day ultimatum given to the state government by the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, to address the deplorable condition of health institutions in the state. It described the ultimatum as timely and a welcomed development.

ACHIEVEMENTS may be viewed from diverse prism depending on the parameters employed and the benchmarks set. Success in one clime could therefore pass off as failure in another. But in all of human history and civilization men that evolve ideas and visions that shaped the future of their worlds beyond their generations have never gone down unnoticed and are proudly admitted into halls of fame. Delta beyond Oil programme, which has conferred on the Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan the rare privilege of the architect and pioneer of a Nigeria beyond Oil philosophy and initiative, is one such pragmatic initiative of a leader of modern Nigeria.

—Barely 24 hours after loyalists of the former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, unveiled the secretariat of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Yenagoa, the party, yesterday, accused Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of hiring suspected thugs and policemen to dismantled its flags and signposts.

NIGERIANS are now familiar with the regular arguments between the supporters of the present Federal Government led by President Goodluck Jonathan and the known antagonists represented by the Opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC) and other ordinary, but well-meaning Nigerians. The argument is always on the “The State of the Nation”.

Ahead of tomorrow’s local council election, disagreements between leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State have got messier with a camp suspending leaders of another camp. The disagreements arose over whether or not the party should take part in the local council election.

For the first time since the turn of the century, the people of Anambra State will tomorrow have an opportunity to elect their local governments. Is it the beginning of a new dawn?

The Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, cautioned that rather than embarking on a national conference, the Federal Government should convene a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, which its outcome will be subjected to referendum.