DR. Festus Iyayi, author, academic and activist of extraordinary endowments lost his life in a ghastly auto crash along Abuja-Lokoja highway on Tuesday, November 12, 2013, to bring to a climax an odyssey of struggle, commitment and dedication to social justice in his fatherland.

President Goodluck Jonathan was sup-posed to present and lay before the combined session of the National Assembly the 2014 Appropriation Bill on Tuesday, November 12, 2013. As preparations towards the event peaked, the event was suddenly postponed to Tuesday, November 19, 2013, and the President wrote the leadership of the Assembly to that effect.

THE Golden Eaglets of Nigerian have, once again, proved that Nigeria is the undisputed king of world youth football.

When the ailing Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai, returned from his elongated medical vacation abroad and could not be allowed to resume due to his subsisting indisposition, the state fell into the shadow of deadly power play.

NIGERIA is reputed to have the second highest rate of road accidents among 193 countries and deaths from reckless driving are the third leading cause of death in Nigeria. In 2012, at least 473 persons died from a total of 1,115 vehicular accidents nationwide.

Friday, November 1, 2013 will go down in the history of electric power development in Nigeria as the day when the private sector effectively took over the functions of providing electricity to Nigerians.

ANYONE, who says he understands how elections in Nigeria work is only making a claim. Whether at the local government, state or federal levels, elections are mysteries various authorities sustain for their own purposes.

AFTER recent peaceful and credible governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states, the flood lights are now beamed on Anambra State. Christened the Light of the Nation, Anambra, since 1999, has managed to be on the amazing side of politics with a capacity to unleash a mixed blend of interesting, unusual and bizarre offerings.

IN June this year, a combined effort of the security agencies and the Lagos State Government led to a massive security sweep of some suburbs of Lagos, where some suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic insurgency sect were apprehended before they could hit targets in the nation’s commercial capital.

THE latest round of strikes by the Academic Union of Universities (ASUU), has once again reached a dead end. After protracted negotiations, which ended with the Federal Government offering a concession that totalled N130 billion, which the union rejected insisting on full implementation of the 2009 agreement it signed, no further positive progress has been recorded towards ending the stand-off.