AS Nigerians count days to the country’s general elections come March 28, 2015, many foreigners appear to be leaving the country in droves as witnessed by Vanguard Consular Advisory at both Lagos and Abuja international airports.

Okpe Scholars Association World Wide has protested the non-inclusion of Okpe Kingdom in the pipeline surveillance contract awarded to various ethnic nationalities by the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

Sports Minister and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Dr. Tammy Danagogo has congratulated the national U-20 team, the Flying Eagles for qualifying for the final of the African Youth Championship holding in Dakar, Senegal after their 2-0 victory over Ghana’s Black Satellites.

WIFE of former Head of State and Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Hajia Aishat Buhari, yesterday in Benin City, Edo State, accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of using religious politics as a decoy to loot the nation’s treasury, adding that Nigerians must vote the party out before it grounds the country completely.

THE latest outburst by General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), if anything, has cemented the well founded concern that the former military strongman is too unstable to be president of Nigeria. Buhari let go his emotion, which was a doomsday wish for the nation, as is his nature, during a rally of the APC in Kaduna last week.

IN eight days time, we will vote to decide who leads us for the next four years, and that decision may choose which way we head to as a nation; whether we will continue to grow, or slip into confusion that may consume the nation. Thank God, for the Shift in date for who knows where we would have been by now, with our level of unpreparedness, in spite of the deception by the elections umpire!

As part of its continued drive to improve local content in the nation’s oil and gas industry, Access Bank Plc has thrown its weight behind the 2015 Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference which is scheduled to hold in Abuja between March 16 and 19, 2015. The conference is the largest business network platform for players in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. The Executive Director, Corporate and Investment Banking Division, Access Bank Plc, Elias Igbinakenzua said that the Bank is delighted to be a part of the Oil and Gas Conference , adding that its involvement in the sector was in line with the commitment to contribute to the economic growth of the country.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has advised the board of governors of the Performance, Earnings and Returns Leadership (Pearl) Awards Nigeria to include good corporate governance in its criteria to reward quoted companies in Nigeria. The commission also assured of its readiness to collaborate with the Pearl Awards in encouraging companies for high performance.

Another election year, another round of politicking and another spate of issues- none of them to do with the reasons why the fairer sex remains the small players on the Nigerian political scene.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, has commended the Nigerian military for recording a landslide victory by recovering the lost territories from the terrorist group, Boko Haram.