IT was the ambition of Senator Liyel Imoke on Assumption of office to make Calabar, capital of Cross River State, one of the five leading destinations for meetings, conferences and conventions in the country. However, few months before his exit from office, his success in that regard would be measured by the fact that Calabar is today only third after Abuja and Lagos for MCCs in the country. That landmark is complemented by the fact that Calabar, the capital of Cross River is about the country’s number one destination for holidays and tourism.

Facts emerged, yesterday, suggesting that Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was grappling with problems which may have compelled it to postpone the February 14, 2015, presidential election, had the National Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, not publicly called on the electoral body to consider the option of postponement.

The travails of Nigerian born Secretary General of Organisation of African Trade Unions Unity, OATUU, Comrade Owei Lakemfa, have been ascribed to international conspiracy.

In 2009, a Canadian man in a well celebrated scam lost $150,000 to Nigerian Lottery Scam. John Rempel of Leamington, Ontario, got an email way back in July, 2007 from someone claiming to be a lawyer with a client named David Rempel who died in a 2005 bomb attack in London, England, and left behind $12.8 million dollars.

This chronic health worker shortage that has prevailed in public hospitals over the years in Lagos and Nigeria as a whole has steadily gone from bad to worse.