After the United Nations House was bombed in Abuja on Friday, August 26th 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan summoned the heads of the Security agencies to an emergency meeting in Aso Villa.

From far away United States of America, one of Nigeria’s literary giants and ambassadors of honour, Professor Chinualumogu Achebe, has set another good example.

IF what Dr. Harold Demuren, the Director- General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, said recently is anything to go by, then air travellers in Nigeria are on their way to assuming the status of “customer as king.”

THE third Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) under the chairmanship of Air Vice-Marshal Larry Koinyan was finally dissolved on September 13, 2011, after an intractable and distracting power play, petition writing and allegations of misdemeanour among the top echelon of the commission.

AS the two chambers of the National Assembly resumed plenary after a long break, what is confronting them is another daunting task of national cohesion through law making.

After the United Nations House was bombed in Abuja on Friday, August 26th 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan summoned the heads of the Security agencies to an emergency meeting in Aso Villa.

THE concept of using violence on innocent and defenceless people as a bargaining chip, especially over religious and secular issues is novel to Nigeria. Security agents are now faced with a massive challenge combating non-state actors that can be essentially classified as invisible enemies with no defined leadership, rational and plausible agenda.

ON Thursday, September 8, 2011, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Abdulwahid Omar and his counterpart, President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Peter Esele, were scheduled to lead other national labour leaders to join the Enugu State chapter to a grand rally at the Workers Square of the State Secretariat, Enugu.

The construction of roads, infrastructure and housing is reeling again under a vicious resurgence of cement prices. Reports have it that in many parts of the country, especially the Lagos metropolis, where development of housing projects is proceeding at a frenetic pace, a bag of cement now goes for as a high as N2,800 per bag.

One of the indelible contributions of theformer Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Fidelia Njeze in her relatively long stay at the ministry was the programme of providing fences for our local and international airports.

The Libyan aspect of the Arab Spring, a series of pro-democracy and freedom protests that have ended decades-old, entrenched regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, with Syria and Yemen still on the boil, has turned into a diplomatic mess for African leaders.

ON Thursday, August 25, 2011, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, signed the Tenancy and Lagos Parks and Gardens Bill into Law. It was aimed at regulating the relationship between landlords and tenants. While it curbs the excesses of landlords who prey on their tenants, it also reduces the antics of tenants, who […]

IBADAN should not be one of the places to be associated with flood disasters for the simple reason that for decades, its Ogunpa River has been the best advertisement for what disasters can visit on a poorly planned city.

The Libyan aspect of the Arab Spring, a series of pro-democracy and freedom protests that have ended decades-old, entrenched regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, with Syria and Yemen still on the boil, has turned into a diplomatic mess for African leaders.

MUSLIMS all over the world are celebrating the end of their fasting, the Ramadan. The annual spiritual ritual that lasts 30 days. It is a period of spiritual re-birth for the faithful who observe its tenets and learn the lessons of sacrifice and selflessness.