T here was pandemonium one afternoon at No. 9 Awofodu Street, Pedro, Lagos. Mama Nonso could not be consoled. She was screaming on top of her voice. It was not the scream of fright; it was an angry sound of a female animal whose young has fallen into the hands of a predator.

Stella Maris was sixteen years when she got admission into the University to study Economics. She was a very brilliant student and made the best WAEC result in the secondary school she attended. A day before she moved into the University campus, her father took her on a shopping spree and she had fun purchasing all she ever wanted and even those things she never dreamt she could have. Her father spent a fortune on her and she went home a happy girl in preparation for moving into the campus the next day.

Efforts by Nigeria to contain the out-break of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the country, may come to nought as Vanguard investigations revealed that peoples move seamlessly through the nation’s land borders without screening for EVD.

ALL the tractors used were David Brown tractors. David Brown tractors were chosen for the study because they are popular and are among the first tractors to be imported into the country. The data were collected on a total of 144 tractors made up of the following numbers of different models: 50 DB 885, 56 DB 990 and 38 DB 1290. The data were made up mainly of the cost of disassembly, replacement and reconditioning of parts or units.

OHWORORIOLE et al (1988) reported a simple manual rig that worked on the principle of peel/flesh separation through compression followed by peel removal with knives. The principle looked promising for further research. However, before the design could commence, experiments had to be carried out on the physical properties of the cassava tuber. This resulted in the characterisation of the cassava tuber (Adetan et al, 2003).

INTENDED cylinders separate grains based on differences in shape while inclined drapers effect separation on the basis of differences in surface textures of the particles. In contrast, the electromagnetic separator effects separation based on differences in the electrical properties of the grains and the foreign matter.

When last weekend the leader of the Islamist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, said Gwoza in Borno State had been declared an ‘Islamic Caliphate’, following its alleged capture, the military was quick to deny the claim.

There is no doubt that the outbreak of the Ebola disease, which started in Guinea , as a major health hazard, now has serious economic implications in the entire West African sub-region. The sectors most affected include aviation, export sub-sector, industries dominated by large scale buying and selling of goods, open markets for second-hand clothes and other places within the affected countries.

Last Sunday, this paper published the first part of the gambit the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, led by Professor Attahiru Jega, got itself into. And whereas the Commission would have been expected to attempt to address the concerns raised by the report, it chose to embark on a voyage of half-truths and deception in an advertorial explaining, rather vainly, ‘Why INEC is creating new Polling Units, PUs”.

At the end of a recent meeting in Kaduna, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) issued a communiqué, which, among other things, contained an ultimatum to President Jonathan to secure the release of the abducted Chibok girls by the end of October 2014 or forfeit his 2015 re-election bid. Their logic is that by failing to secure the release of the girls, ‘Nigerians (read: the Northern Elders) would be left with the only conclusion that he had forfeited his right to ask for their mandate beyond 2015.’ Their diagnosis of the Boko Haram insurgency is, to say the least, bizarre.