IT has become so obvious that we are a nation with leaders who are plenteous in words but short on action. We abound in great ideas and laudable policies but short on implementation.

DETERMINED to remove all bottlenecks militating against trade facilitation within the country’s airports, the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, NAGAFF, in partnership with airline operators has commenced the maiden inspection of facilities at cargo ports

By Okechukwu Onwuka In making judgments, the early kings were perfect, because they made moral principles the starting point of all their undertakings and the root of everything that was beneficial. This principle, however, is something that persons of mediocre intellect never grasp. Not grasping it, they lack awareness, and lacking awareness, they pursue profit. […]

The response of the militants who went as far as bombing the Atlas Cove in Lagos and the threat by the South-South Governors to pull out of the amnesty package, the reported reversal of PTI Effurum from a degree-awarding institution to a training institute; the positioning of the Petroleun University at Kaduna, a state that does not produce a drop of oil and most recently, the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, are all pointers to the fact the end is not yet in sight to the crisis in the Delta region.

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua met with African Ambassadors to Brazil in the course of his State last Wednesday and spoke on what can ensure development