A group within All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kogi State, Confluence for Change, has called on the President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd) and the national leadership of the party not to disband the state executives of the party as proposed by the state APC Elders Forum.

Sir, as a democrat and a patriot, I place my faith and trust in you; the notion of change sustains me, and I have to say, fuels me with the hope that I had completely lost some six months ago.

I HAVE watched with utter dismay O’tega Emerhor’s attempt to discredit the results of the governorship and House of Assembly election in Delta State. Not a few in Delta are amused and puzzled by his antics given the obvious facts on the ground that APC and Emerhor did not stand a chance of winning the governorship election in the State.

The name, Willis Carrier, might not strike a chord amongst even technology enthusiasts. But for every blast from an air conditioner that cools you from the scorching heat, you have him to be thankful to. Carrier invented the first modern electrical air conditioning unit in 1902. Since then, individuals and corporations have built on his brain child to make the world a ‘cooler place’-literally. It was no wonder therefore, that when Samsung Electronics recently organised an Air Conditioner forum in Lagos, about 180 people were in attendance.

With barely six days to the end of his administration, Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State may have perfected plans to foist his preferred candidates as principal officers of Enugu State House of Assembly for the incoming administration of the governor-elect, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

THE Nigeria Labour Congress ,NLC, the apex labour organisation for all workers, announced five months ago, that 11 state governments had not paid December salaries to their workers. The President of the NLC, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar, who made the comment in an ‘End of Year Message’ stated that three of the states, Benue, Plateau and Osun, were also owing between three to eight months workers’ salary arrears.

Nkurunziza may be technically right or wrong in his argument for a Third Term, but is it worth so much bloodshed and instability for his country? Is his ambition worth the blood of Burundians? An Idi Amin might have insisted in running, no matter the costs, but definitely, not a Nelson Mandela. One reason why leaders like Nkurunziza fester on the African continent, is the lack of Social Movements comprising workers, students, the informal sector, conscientious intellectuals and other progressive forces who can bring pressure to bear on the AU or any African leader.

The Nigerian Electricity Consumers Advocacy Network, NECAN, has accused the Distribution companies of extorting customers by billing them for unsupplied power. This is even as customers in Isashi areas in Lagos state has warned DISCOs marketing officers in the area not to venture entering the areas with the notion to disconnect resident until there is improvement in the power supply deliver to the community.

Unity Bank Plc has stated that its renewed strategy following the completion of its consolidation has started bearing fruits as it recorded a tremendous growth from a loss position of N33.64 billion in 2013 to a profit position of N13.6 billion in 2014, just as the Net Interest Margin, NIM improved over the last three years.

The aforementioned structure being the nerve centre of the Area Command, if demolished without a functional substitute to same being put in place for a seamless change over, will paralyse the operations of the Area Command.

Did Blackberry go prodigal? Did it miss its way, hiding its traditional rich enterprise features and outlook in a new look Blackberry 10 series?

Was Blackberry’s CEO, John Chen right, early 2014 when he noted that the way to track back to the successes that made the smartphone the toast of every business man in the days of yore, was to go back to the basics? The answer to these questions may actually be in the affirmitive looking at the latest offering, the Blackberry Classic.

Severance payments to workers of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, have so far gulped more than N389.58 billion from the national treasury.

THIRTY suspected criminals, including two inmates that escaped during Ekiti jailbreak last year, were yesterday paraded by the Ondo State Police Command.

Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, stated this in Abuja, while presenting provisional licences to two private universities- the Edwin Clark University Kiagbodo, ECUK, Delta State and Hezekiah University, Imo State.

Rivers State people have been told to ignore rumours in some quarters that the governor-elect, Mr Nyesom Wike, would not be sworn in on May 29.