FOR most locals in his native Iyamoh village, a Saturday offers an opportunity to take a break from their agrarian occupation and enjoy the thrills weekend brings. But for the visiting Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, all days are the same, insofar there is still work to be done to “take Edo to the next level.”

CITIZENS of Akwa-Ibom and Abia States, who first raised the alarm, July, about the scandalous state of Ikot Ekpene – Umuahia and Ikot Ekpene-Aba federal expressways are enraged by the Federal Government’s decision to merely patch the highways, instead of reconstructing and dualizing them.

THE beginning: The story was once told of a Nigerian engineer who attempted suicide after nine years of joblessness. He thought ending it all would be a short-cut out of the misery that life had given him on a platter. But his story was contrary to that of many Nigerians who were failures at home but on travelling overseas, became champions in other countries.

TO ensure that the far-reaching recommendations of the just concluded National Conference do not go the way of past conferences, eminent persons have proffered ways to get the 22-volume report implemented.

Nigeria is becoming an inheritor of strange diseases by the day but the people have a way of surviving. New ailments are developing everyday and somehow, they find their ways into our land.