It came as cheering news that the two contractors engaged by the federal government to reconstruct the 167-kilometre Lagos/Ibadan Expressway have moved their equipment back to site to resume work.

The current spate of fuel scarcity, which started like a joke about three weeks ago, is about to hit the one month target with no apparent end in sight. If anything, petrol is getting scarcer by the day all over the country, with prices ranging from N150 to N500 per litre depending on the location around Nigeria.

Since the collapse of the effort of the Federal Government to partner with Virgin Atlantic Airlines to create a national carrier known as Virgin Nigeria, the deteriorating relationship between the British aviator owned by billionaire Richard Branson and Nigeria has hit a new low with the sack of all Nigerian cabin crew from its employ.

THE Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) started courting trouble with the organised Labour last week when they met at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, and announced they can no longer pay the N18,000 national minimum wage. According to them, it was introduced when the price of crude oil was $126 per barrel, arguing that now that it had plunged to about $41 per barrel the states could no longer afford to pay.

Since the arrest of Mr Nnamdi Kanu, the Director of pirate, foreign-based Radio Biafra, youths have been staging daily protests for his release in many cities of the South East and South-South. The agitators, under the platforms of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) are also calling for the granting of their demand for a separate country called Biafra.

Worrisome indications emerged in the past week that the Federal Government might have placed what was described as “prohibition by trade” on the importation of mini electricity generating sets, more popularly known as “I better pass my neighbour”.

Recently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) removed Nigeria from the list of polio-endemic countries. It was a major milestone in the drive to eradicate polio after a year of not recording a single case of polio in any part of the country.

AFTER months of procrastination, the Senate and the House of Representatives have finally constituted their committees. The setting up of the committees is the signal of the readiness of the National Assembly to settle down for business.

FOLLOWING on the heels of the successful peace pact between the presidential candidates of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Goodluck Jonathan, and the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari in the run-up to the 2015 general elections, a similar deal for peaceful polls has been brokered for the candidates of the eighteen contending political parties in the Bayelsa governorship poll, which comes up on December 5, 2015.

WITH the December deadline for the total elimination of the Boko Haram Islamist terror group in the North East closer than ever, the picture of the progress made so far has remained cloudy. In spite of almost daily reports of recovery of Boko Haram-held territory and the destruction of their camps, the terrorists continue to […]