Nigeria dreams to build own satellite by 2018, but that dream may not be realised if militating factors pointed out by the Director and Chief Executive of Centre for satellite Technology Development, CSTD, Dr. Spencer Onuh, are not addressed.

The Federal Government has extended the deadline for Televeras Group and Northwest Power Plc; the preferred bidders for Afam Power Plc and Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, respectively, to pay the balance of 75 percent of purchase prices to October 6, 2014.

The very large numbers of people living in Lagos State requires that we must always ensure that our social infrastructure is effective, that the social infrastructure does not suffer from non-application of resources and that the social infrastructure is not overwhelmed by the numbers of its users. How would one rate social infrastructure in Lagos today and why should I be concerned about infrastructure matters?

On this year’s World Humanitarian Day, the UNFPA calls for increased funding for international humanitarian appeals, especially for efforts to support sexual and reproductive health and protection for women and girls from sexual violence.

I am writing these words as I watch what is probably the highest concentration of Europeans in the UK….at the exit/entrance point of the Eurostar train at St Pancras Station, London. I am surrounded by recognisable Spanish, Italian, French and German dialects and a few unknown ones, probably Polish and Romanischte. No, I am not […]

THIS time last week, the nation held its breath in anticipation of the final episode in the four months old saga that was the National Conference. The key actors themselves did not have the final pages of the script. Or, to put it another way, there were many versions of the final scenes of a melodrama that threatened to either tear the nation apart, or facilitate massive distortions in political power and resource mobilisation and allocation.

Following the retirement of the erstwhile Deputy Inspectors-General of Police during the tenure of former IGP Mohammed Abubakar, the Police Service Commission has elevated eight new Deputy Inspectors General of Police.

IT came like a thief in the night, unannounced but deadly. And since its stealthy arrival, death has been stalking the land, leaving tears, sorrow and fear in its wake.
At the last check, the death toll has hit the 1,145 mark, according to the World Health Organisation, WHO. Indeed the world has known no peace but fear since an outbreak of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, went out of control, ravaging West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

THEY might seem little to those who don’t know or remember its past history but the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has taken quite a few positive steps in recent years. These are remarkable transformations in the activities of the organisation of which I have taken mental note, hoping the time would come when these could be properly acknowledged. There are not too many good things to report about public institutions in Nigeria. That the ugly many times overshadow the beautiful has made nonsense of our ability, to say nothing of our readiness, to get out of the rot of what would seem a perpetual habit of nagging and seeing all that is wrong about us but always too tight-lipped about the few things we are doing right. The August 2 interview Saturday Punch had with the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, was all the prompting I needed to finally put this down in writing.