DANA Air was my preferred airline. Their ticketing system was easy – you could buy your ticket in advance and collect your boarding pass immediately for convenient boarding on travel date, unlike some others where you had to come two hours to boarding and stand in long queues.

IF you dropped into the country from outer space in the last one week; and read newspapers or listened to private radio and television or browsed the social media, you would wonder what can possibly be done to save President Goodluck Jonathan from the Nigerian people.

NINETEEN years after the pan-Nigerian mandate he won at the polls was voided by the military and 14 years after he died in incarceration fighting for the restoration of that mandate, recognition finally came the way of Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola – or so it seems.

REPRESENTATIVE electoral democracies are opposite of direct rule democracies. In the latter, every member of the rulership participates directly and with equal voice in the government of their society.

THE Democracy Day observed last week offered many Nigerians another opportunity for a promiscuous criticism of the system. Well, what a better way to celebrate democracy than to exercise our freedom of speech? I am reminded of what an actor once said: “opinion is like an a….h; everybody has got one!”

IT is the hottest debate in town. Boko Haram and terrorism have been pushed to the back seat, for now. Temporarily forgotten is the proposed electric power tariff increase the Federal Government vowed must go into effect this month. Sidelined for now are the petrol subsidy report and its mind-numbing revelations on which many interest groups have served notice they would soon go on “occupy” street protests.

The issue of fuel subsidy removal has become recurrent in our economy. The following
are answers to salient questions on the beneficent resolution of this dilemma:

Last Saturday, foot-ball faithful all over the world were joined by their African colleagues to celebrate the feast of football as the 2014 FIFA World Cup Preliminary competition kicked off.

James Michener was for years an editor before he became a writer of historical novels; he wrote over 20 books and he is one of my mentors – even in death. When in 1994, I first started writing general commentary, the first thing was to find out the cardinal principle of journalism and to apply it at all times to all situations and issues. It still boils down to finding the facts and not being swayed by popular opinions.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the African Development Bank (AfDB) today signed an ISDA Master Agreement to enter into cross-currency swap transactions to facilitate local currency lending and bond issuance in Africa. It is the first ISDA Master Agreement either institution has signed with another multilateral financial institution.