A group, Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN), has opposed the move by the Senate to amend the Act establishing the Oil & Gas Export Free Zone Authority.

The management of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and workers have agreed on a way forward in the Pension dispute that led to a five day strike that crippled the corporation and its subsidiaries.

LAST weekend Sokoto hosted the cream of Nigerian political society. They were in the ‘Seat of the Caliphate’ for the turbanning of the Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, as the new Mutawallen Sakwato. And in the Nigerian political manner of doing things, most of those who turned out were from the opposition APC party.

ABUJA—Civil rights campaigner and former member, House of Representatives, Dino Melaye,yesterday,led members of his newly formed Citizens Arise Movement of Nigeria,CAMON,across the streets of Abuja,in demonstration against what he called the ‘ills of the nation’ after 54 years of independence.

The Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, NIMR, Prof. Innocent Ujah yesterday bagged the 2014 Achiever per Excellence Award of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS.

IN what seems like a reoccurrence of what happened two years ago, when millions of Nigerian students celebrated the nation’s 52nd independence anniversary at home due to strike by university lecturers under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, millions of pupils and students across several states, yesterday, said a silent hurray as they stayed back home to mark the nation’s 54 years of independence.

The Ministry of Labour and Productivity said, yesterday, that it had in the last four years implemented policies and programmes that enhanced the development of the labour sector, in line with international best practices and the objectives of the Transformation Agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

Only yesterday, Nigeria as a country had a low key celebration to mark the 54th anniversary of its political independence from our colonial masters. Perhaps, the anniversary was celebrated without fanfare or pomp and pageantry in acknowledgment of the global and widespread economic crisis that is top on the agenda of most developed, developing and least developed nations.

THE Christian in Nigeria is constantly faced with a serious dilemma: He must confess positive all the time, because in the church’s belief of the self-fulfilling prophesy, the power of the tongue is very strong. At the same time, he is enjoined to remain truthful, even at the edge of doom.

Political foes of the outgoing governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Godswill Akpabio have many reasons for the beef they hold against him. But their disunity is a common problem