The Senate and Federal Government may be on collision course over the proposed Communications Service Tax (CST). The Senate described the proposed tax as not only anti-people, but also would make life unbearable for Nigerians.

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has attributed the challenges in the power sector to man-made situations and not technical as widely speculated.

NATIONAL Union of Chemical, Footwear, Rubber, Leather and Non-Metallic Products Employees, NUCFRLANMPE, has decried the poor state of infrastructure in the country, saying this was negatively affecting the standard of living of Nigerians.

All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has made a strong case for the return of History as a subject in the country’s school curriculum, saying any nation which forgets its past has lost a beacon to guide its actions.

INVESTORS’ investment on the Nigerian stock market has dropped by N27.4 billion for the month of September this year as the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE market capitalisation which represents the market value dropped from N9.760 trillion at the beginning of trading for the month to close at the last trading day of September at N9.733 trillion.

The 2016 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), launched yesterday by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, reveals that improvement in overall governance in Africa over the past ten years has been held back by a widespread deterioration in the category of Safety & Rule of Law.

It took the dehumanising deportation of Nigerian students for the Federal Government to wake up to the reality that Turkey is not its friend and that whatever they have by way of relationship is borne out of necessity. The Federal Government has now said it would summon the Turkish ambassador to Nigeria, Hakan Cakil, to demand explanation for the deportation of Nigerian students.

FORMER National President of the Nigerian Trawler Owners Association, NITOA, Margaret Orakwusi, has accused Nigerian banks of not encouraging investment in the shipping industry with their high interest rates.

No fewer than 1,076 suspects are currently on the awaiting trial list at the Makurdi Medium Prison, out of the 1,375 inmates currently being housed at the facility.

ON behalf of all users of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, I am calling on the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) to immediately get German Construction company Julius Berger to stop the wickedness in high places that has been going on for months now on that major road.

The Nigerian Army has launched Operation Motorcycle Battalion aimed at the use of motorcycles in its operation against insurgency, especially in rough terrains and reduction of response time to emergencies.

PORT HARCOURT—SOME weeks ago, I travelled from Asaba in Delta State, the Regional Head-quarters of my company, Vanguard newspapers in the Niger Delta region to Rivers State on an official assignment.

The Civil Liberty Organization,CLO,Enugu Chapter, yesterday, lauded the Nigeria Judicial Council, NJC, over last Friday’s sack of the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Umezurike over abuse of his office by accepting gratifications from litigants.

ONE of the governorship aspirants that participated in the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primaries in Ondo State, Tayo Alasoadura, yesterday, said he was disappointed at aggrieved aspirants, who rejected the conduct of the primaries.

Ibadan—FORMER Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja has described the proposed creation of 35 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, in the state as a plan to avoid the conduct of local government elections, which is yet to be conducted five years after assumption of Governor Abiola Ajimobi in office.