Before August 25 when President Barack Obama declared that the US was going to respond militarily to the use of chemical weapon by the Syrian regime to attack its own near the capital Damascus, the hawks in America were strident and irritably loud in demanding the Washington must intervene to end the brutality of the Bashar Al-Assad’s government.

In the aftermath of the bloody conflicts of 1991 – 93, the bloodiest in the country’s more than 3,000 years of recorded history, the people of Ethiopia faced the fundamental issue squarely, and the solution they worked out at meetings of the ethnic nationalities, based on the tragic lessons of the bloody conflicts, was embodied in the 1995 Constitution, which is still, 17 years after (1995 – 2012), the basis of the continued corporate existence of the diverse “Nations, Nationalities and Peoples” comprised in Ethiopia.

Reactions have continued to trail the introduction of the new Biometric Central Motor Registration, BCMR, which its implementation is expected to be enforced by the Nigerian Police.

Several times, when there are robberies and cars are snatched, victims of the vehicles in question don’t run to the Federal Road Safety Corp to report or seek for redress, but they run to the Police.

Chidi Nkwonta is the Lagos state Sector commander, Fedaral Road Safety Commission. In this revealing interview, he talks about the reason behind the implementation of BCMR, the new drivers’ licence, national identification card project and other related issues.

Following the introduction of the Biometrics Central Motor Registration BCMR by the Nigeria Police Force recently, Nigerian motorists had within the week been faced with another burden as motorists have been enforced to go through it in order to cub crimes and terrorism.

Sunday’s Federation Cup final between Enyimba of Aba and Warri Wolves is historic for both Nigerian Premier League clubs.

THE crisis rocking the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State deepened as the faction loyal to Governor Chibuike Amaechi went ahead to inaugurate it’s state secretariat at No. 38, Forces Avenue, Old GRA, Port-Harcourt.

Professor Ben Nwabueze, the leader of the Patriots, dissects Nigeria in a keynote address at the National Summit on the Future of the country. Extracts:

Most motor parks across Nigeria do not only serve the purpose of loading and offloading passengers. They also serve several purposes which people do not know. Research has shown that major parks in Nigeria turn to mini international markets at night with different kinds of traders all struggling to sell and also, a conducive atmosphere for smokers to enjoy themselves as they feel very comfortable doing their thing at odd hours.

When the sun goes down is when things really heat up at Motor parks in most parts of the country. The mixture of music coming from different stalls where cassettes, CDs DVD of different artistes are sold, the intermittent noise from loudspeakers calling passengers to board buses to different parts of the country, the blaring of horns by luxurious buses and articulated vehicles around including shouts and arguments in the area are enough cacophony of hoots and cackles that define night life in most part of the countr

In major cities and towns across the country, villages strategically located along highways, there are up to more than 3000 motor parks and joints in which travellers eat, drink and smoke without mandatory closing time, from morning through the night till day break.

Observing from a distance, one can not quantify the large number of young men and women alike converging in motor parks with the aim of traveling very early in the morning and most times late at night. Saturday Vanguard did a close up on Maza-Maza motor park in Lagos recently.

This is the third and concluiding part of this piece. The second part was published Monday.

THE damage to the accountancy profession in Nigeria was colossal. Subsequently, at the international level serious doubts were being raised about the quality of accounts emanating from Nigeria. To my mind, no purpose is served by being in denial, without going through the rigorous exercise of separating perception from reality.

IT is all over the internet that the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, has called on the President of Nigeria and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, to declare a state of emergency over the accountancy profession in Nigeria. It is a bombshell!! It has some viral.