President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to Katsina State has come and gone, but the echoes of the visit will be with us for some time to come. This is because the visit came with some lesson for state governors across the country. The lesson is simple that we still have some leaders who are selfless and will do anything to move the society forward.

Following threats of attack on major institutions, including the University of Uyo, in Akwa-Ibom State, by the dreaded Boko Haram sect, visitors to the state are now being subjected to stop and search by security agencies.

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State, has sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, three Indian nationals, over their involvement in illegal oil theft on the waterways of Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Yes, I have written a novel, entitled “Behind the Campus” which is a satire of what happens in our tertiary institutions. The great novelist, Late Chief Cyprain Ekwensi wrote the introduction. The second book is “Topical Issues in Nigerian Politics (1996 to 2006)” which is a compendium of my selected articles published by the various print media during the period under reference.

A group known as Stop Impunity Nigeria (SIN) has said the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, risk contempt of court for refusing to comply with the order of mandamus, by a Federal High Court (FHC) sitting in Abuja, compelling her to grant them access to the details of the statutory transfers in the 2013 Appropriation Act.

THE Lagos State Ministry of Education has held its 2014 ministerial Press briefing on the performance of the ministry, delivered by the Commissioner of Education, Mrs Olayinka Olagunsoye

ABEOKUTA—The Ogun State government yesterday said it was set to secure N2 billion loan from the Federal Mortgage Bank for the construction of affordable housing units at Idi Aba, Abeokuta.

As controversy rages over the zoning of the 2014 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Presidential election, a member of Body of Benchers, Chief Ziggy Azike, has expressed dissatisfaction with the position of Dr. Olisa Agbakoba SAN on the issue, even as the latter said resolving the Midwest question is the most important thing.

The history of the world they say is nothing but a compendium of the biographies of great men- and as the proverbial literary guru, Williams Shakespeare aptly noted, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them”

The question on the lips of thousands of students of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education is very much like the one above. Due to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, Poly students have been at home for 206 days, as the strike embarked upon by the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, enters its 148th day.

A Lagos-based group, United Non-Indigenes Development Association, has said that Boko Haram is a product of some mischief makers in the Northern part of the country who are bent on frustrating President Goodluck Jonathan out of office.

Paint manufacturers, under the aegis of Paint Manufacturers Association (PMA), on yesterday said that capacity utilisation in the sector had dropped to 25 per cent.

ABUJA — THE Director- General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier- General Johnson Olawumi, disclosed, yesterday, that the agency had put a stop to sending graduates to Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states currently facing insecurity challenges from Boko Haram insurgents.

ABUJA — FEDERAL Government, yesterday, revealed that the terror fugitive behind the Nyanya bombing, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche who was declared wanted by the Nigerian Police Force has been arrested.

After 14 weeks of rigorous presentations of ‘political manifestos,’ young ministers and commissioners of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, emerged last Friday, at the 2014 Kiddies Vision Magazine Grand Finale Award of Young Ministers Competition, held at the Lagos Television Hall 2, Ikeja, Lagos