THE Federal Government,yesterday, concluded the scrapping of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission in line with recommendations of Steve Oronsanye’s Committee on the restructuring of federal agencies and parastatals.

There was drama, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as 18 political parties contesting the forthcoming general elections engaged in physical combat during a protest against alleged bias of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Ado Ekiti—Legal luminary, philanthropist and founder of Afe Babalola University, ABUAD,Chief Afe Babalola will today receive the prestigious Honorary Doctors of Law degree, LLD, of the University of London.

‘OH! I’m just loving this. The great Nigerian Armed Forces have suddenly woken up from their slumber. The Boko guys never expected what they are getting now,” said KC, a commuter in the Apapa-bound bus.

Going by the prohibitive cost of broadband, over two billion people in the developing and emerging countries, are cut off from the benefits of internet ubiquity. A major percentage of these people, according to a new report by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), are Nigerians. It becomes more worrisome considering the fact that women and rural dwellers are affected most in this unfortunate situation.