Following the recent resolve by the Federal Government to clean-up Ogoniland after three years that the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, submitted its report, the Host Communities Network of Nigeria, HOCoN, has demanded transparency in the implementation of the restoration exercise.

Technical education is a planned programme of courses and learning experiences that begins with exploration of career options, supports basic academic and life skills, and enables achievement of high academic standards, leadership, preparation for industry-defined work, and advanced and continuing education.

The battle for consumers’ heart in the pay-tv market has taken a new dimension with major players in the industry, Mulitichioce and StarTimes throwing drag nets to catch prospective and existing subscribers, to retain or and to increase their subscriber level.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has named leading telecoms operator, Airtel Nigeria, amongst the first 20 companies in its Top 100 Businesses in Nigeria 2014.

Earlier on, this year, we were beating our chest with pride. Our economy had been rebased and Nigeria had become the largest economy in Africa and the twenty-sixth in the world. Our GDP had been racing along at over seven per cent for several years, thanks to the price of crude oil which had been rising steadily since 1997 from $22 per barrel to over $110 for the past two years. There was no reason, or so thought our leaders, to expect there would ever be reversal so soon as to have the nation now wondering what to do and how to budget for 2015.