The boy looked scared and younger than 16 when Iraqi police grabbed him on the street in the northern city of Kirkuk. Pulling off his shirt, they found a two-kilogram bomb strapped to his skinny frame.

THE recent meeting of the leadership of the House of Representatives, whereby the group passed a vote of confidence on itself, consequently exculpating its members accused of ‘budget padding’ has been described as unfortunate, ridiculous and tantamount to being “a judge in one’s own case.”

AGAINST the positive picture painted on possible rise in the price of crude oil at the international market above USD50 per barrel, Nigeria may be left out of reaping this fortune as the United States Energy Information Administration, EIA, projected a negative downturn for the country’s crude oil production growth this year.

LAGOS—Relatives of the single parent and mother of three, Olubunmi Uko, who disappeared from her Fola Agoro, Lagos, home with her nine-year-old son last Friday, leaving a suicide note, have begun to search for her body in Lagos rivers.

Out of the 46 years of Nigeria’s political independence, northern elites had power on their grab for nearly 38 years; what is boggling the minds of northern talakawas is: what had stopped the elites then in making a true resolute effort in the search for oil in north despite the fact that preliminary geological survey had shown evidence of oil existence?