IMAGES of the Senate Committee on Aviation prancing around the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja to unearth the cause of a power failure that disrupted flights cut a pitiful sight of a nation making a virtue of its lack of direction.

WERE Nigeria to be a sprinter, she would be introduced on the starting block with all the accolades listing the possibilities her presence holds for the race. When the starting gun is fired, she would remain on the block while others engage into action.

SENTIMENTS will overtake reasons on decisions about which federal agencies will be spared in government’s bid to cut rising cost of its operations. People are more interested in which agencies remain, rather than the rationale for the exercise.

WHEN people say politics is the only serious business in Nigeria, they are stating the obvious. Oil and gas may be providing the resources that fuel the economy, but nobody talks about the sector with the futuristic focus Nigerian leaders bring to politics.

Everybody knew it was an uphill task, but it was worth a good try. By the time the clouds cleared on the heatedly contested position of President of the World Bank last Monday, April 16th 2012, America’s nominee, Jim Yong Kim, secured the nod of the 25-member Executive Board of Directors of the Bank to clinch the post.

President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the 2012 budget of Nigeria into law, promising that the Federal Government would pursue the implementation of the budget diligently.

IT seems that no year would pass without the healthcare professionals in the employ of the Lagos State Government going on strike for one reason or the other.

RECENTLY, two major public examinations bodies released results of the candidates that sat for their tests. They are the Joint Admissions & Matriculations Board (JAMB) and the National Examinations Council (NECO). JAMB released results for the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations while NECO released results for the 2011 November/December Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE).

LAST week’s notice by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, that it would embark on a three-day nationwide warning strike from April 16, to protest perceived unfair labour practices, anti-union activities and general insecurity of members at work places and at home is a warning too many for an industry and a nation that have been riddled by industrial actions in the last 12 years.

THE Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okaru, has formerly stepped down as the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of the organisation, at the expiration of her second four-year-term.