Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has advocated the establishment of a joint military task force between Nigeria and other neighbouring African countries in an effort to contain the current insurgency by Boko Haram in the region..

CHIEF Executive Officer of NGZ-AGSAM Limited, Ngozi Ugoji, has called for strengthening of legislative instruments to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all, including Persons With Disabilities, PWDs.

ONCE upon a time a man in perfect health announced to his family that he should die on his next birthday. When it was his next birthday, he refused to go to work, saying that he should certainly die before midnight. His family was worried and decided to call in the family physician.

And thus, near furtively, he left, the last of the vintage links to Ibadan of the Penkelemes Years. He left quietly, as he lived his life – fusslessly. Slight and willowy, he exuded an irrepressible optimism in the social therapy of theatre, and its autonomous but vulnerable existence as a community in itself, for which no personal sacrifice is excessive.

STERLING Partnership, one of Nigeria’s leading commercial law firm in Lagos, has organised an end of year networking reception and interaction for its clients and friends.
The event was jointly hosted by the acting British Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. Mike Purves at the British residence in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The main thrust of the event which commenced at 6.30 p.m., was appreciation to Sterling Partnership’s clients and friends of the firm for their business and support through 2014.
The private sector, government, diplomats and members of their diplomatic missions attended the event.

False sense of security

But, he had also been a victim of media yes-men, especially one newspaper, who led him into a flase sense of security concerning how the people of Ekiti perceived his policies and programmes. Because, I had written before on why he lost the re-election bid, permit me not to repeat what is already history. It will be interesting to know how Fayemi relates with those columnists, who sat in Lagos, and knew how the people of Ekiti would vote.

Seattle Sounders striker, Obafemi Martins, has been named in the Major League Soccer Team of The Year.

ORGANISED Labour yesterday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to address the nation on the increasing insecurity of lives and properties, to reassure and explain to the citizens concrete steps taking by government to end insurgency and other violent crimes in the country.

Five presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday signed a Letter of Commitment which compels them to remain in the party even after losing out in the primary election.

ABUJA— As Nigerians continue to express worry over the security situation in the country, especially the North-East, Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said only assurances from security agencies on the safety of the commission’s personnel, materials as well as free atmosphere can convince him to conduct elections in crisis prone areas.