THE situation in the country where many Nigerians are down on the poverty line as a result of unemployment and rising inflation is bad enough; adding additional burden of price increase will hurt more.

WHEN the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN wanted to introduce the cash less policy its argument was that less than 10 per cent of the Nigeria population draws on the average that amount of money from the banking system thus placing the burden of cost of cash management on the banks and the CBN. Every entreaty to persuade the CBN out of it failed. The rest is now history.

SANUSI Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, belongs to a small league of public officials – including Obasanjo, IBB, Jonathan, and now Okupe – whose pronouncements are guaranteed to provoke controversy.

Should Boko Haram be designated an FTO through this regime, it would be illegal for non-governmental organizations to interact with members of Boko Haram – even if the purpose of such contact was to persuade them to renounce violence.

It is exactly one year, today, 26 August, 2012, since the bombing of the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja which claimed several lives and shattered the peace of our country.

This is the concluding part of the abridged version of a recorded exchange during a Sub-committee on Foreign Affairs congressional hearing in America, with leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in attendance.

It marked the very second time in the history of terror in Nigeria that a suicide bomber would be used – the first being the attack on the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja.

The clamour for State Police now a central issue in the counrty have continued to draw interest from all segements of the society.The amber first fired by the Northern Governors had since earned the agitation of the Southern Governors. The heavy onus on everyone who care is, should Nigeria go for state police or not?

The recent surge of insecurity in some parts of the country may have informed the agitation for state police in some quarters as the panacea to the lingering scourge. But others have kicked against this saying it would turn some state governors into despots.

Like most Governors in Nigeria , Governor Jonah David Jang of Plateau State is not entirely a happy man. And he may not have always been since he got elected by the people of the state who obviously renewed his mandate for a second term in office in 2011 elections.