The management team of Thai-African Corporation Limited, a leading rice producer in Thailand, has arrived Calabar, Cross River State, for the commencement of the development of a Rice City in the state.

ABIA State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has called on the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to construct the Obuohia road whose contract has been awarded for some years now but the Commission has yet to mobilize the contractor to site.

ELDER Statesman, Chief Bisi Akande was Executive Governor of Osun State for four years from 1999 during which he led his colleagues who were unwilling to pay workers the National Minimum Wage. I was then in the Nigeria Labour Congress, and we went to appeal to him to change his mind.

CHIEFTAINS of the All Progressives Congress, APC, including a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, former Interim National Chairman of the party, yesterday paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, who passed on last week, saying the monarch did not disappoint them.

The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, FUOYE, Professor Isaac Asuzu and his counterpart in the Ekiti State University, Prof. Oye Bandele have called on the Federal Government to beef up security on campuses to prevent the activities of hoodlums who are fond of assaulting students.

Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Abeokuta, Most Rev. Peter Odetoyinbo has said that corruption can only be eradicated in the country if all Nigerians have positive change of mind.

Odetoyinbo also expressed confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari’s fight against corruption.

Ogun State Government has said that it has invited President Muhammadu Buhari and 11 past governors of the state, including former governors Segun Osoba and Gbenga Daniel to commission some of the 40 projects as part of the commemoration of 40th anniversary celebration of the state.

IN spite of the 2015 general elections that affected most of the activities of several sectors in the country, the Art and Culture sector globally regarded as the flagship for both economic and social development of any society experienced huge success. Even with the scrapping of the Art , Culture and Tourism Ministry by the present administration, arts and culture producers and promoters, saw to it that the sector went on with its activities and in return recorded tremendous success. This was because, the sector despite its contributions to the nation’s GDP has never been a good bride of the government.

It is said that a good writer is one who relates intelligibly to his society and, using the society as a base to disseminate his message with a view to contributing positively to that society in particular and the world in general. The above statement can be said to be true of Dr Onyeka Onyekuba, who also writes as Onyeka Iwuchukwu, a literary scholar with bias in drama and theatre, a multidisciplinary researcher, and a playwright with varied experience and author of over eight plays, who has used her plays to highlight and address some compelling issues in the society.

THE battle to save the life of Palestinian poet and visual artist, Ashraf Fayadh who has been sentenced to death by the Saudi Arabian government for renouncing Islam and for allegedly posting an online video showing women being flogged by Saudi Arabia authorities, continued last Thursday with Nigeria’s literary community led by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, joining the global community to demand for his unconditional release.