OUR attention has been drawn to the controversy over allegations that the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed, described Nigeria as “an Islamic country with the largest Christian population.”

Nigerians were surprised — when the Federal Government, on Tuesday, September 4, announced the lifting of the suspension on the flight operations of Dana Airlines. Coming exactly 93 days after its Flight 992 crashed in Iju-Ishaga on the outskirts of metropolitan Lagos, with all 153 on board and another six on ground killed in a tragedy officially tagged the worst airline accident this year worldwide, mixed reactions were bound to follow in its wake, and they did.

The Federal Government has made known its intention to unveil a National Integrated Master Plan in the near future. It will be a combined effort among the Ministry of National Planning, the Ministry of Trade and Investment and the moribund Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Agency (ICRC).

FOR many Nigerians, Tuesday, August 28, 2012, when news filtered out that one of the most promising ministers in the cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan, Professor Bartholomew Nnaji, had resigned and the President immediately accepted he should go, it was total disbelief and shock.

Ogoniland is, once again, sliding into a slippery terrain nearly 18 years after Ken Saro-Wiwa and other eight leaders of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) were hanged, thus bringing to a climax the first uprising of this oil-rich part of Rivers State.