Only few Nigerians would have been spectacularly positioned as Chief Nduka Irabor, the former journalist who served a prison sentence for publishing an exclusive story to champion open access to official documents.

DISTURBED by the regularity at which bomb explosions are now rocking parts of the country and the attendant loss of avoidable lives and property, some eminent Nigerians have urged President Goodluck Jonathan to find solutions to the problem if he wants socio-economic development to take root in the country.

NIGERIA’s economic potential is well known. The country’s considerable resource endowment and coastal location ordinarily should allow the emergence of a strong growth pole for sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years, Nigeria has realised very little of this potential. Instead, its history has been marked by economic stagnation and associated with declining welfare and social instability.

Undoubtedly, Governor Babatunde Fashola’s first term administration of Lagos State remains a reference point for good governance in Nigeria’s current democratic dispensation.

THE two events were unrelated but had a critical linkage. The first in the afternoon was a pre-annual general meeting media briefing by one of the nation’s 24 banks.

Anambra
Barr Clems Ezika
Barr Ernest Nwoye
Chief Chuba Egolum
Sen Ebenezer Ikeyina
Chudi Offodile
Hon Anayo Nebe
Mrs Obiamaka
Okolo Sunday Aghadi
Engr Ben Akah
Sir Emmanuel Mbamalu

SOUTH London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) plays a strategic role in London’s healthcare industry. It provides mental health services at more than 100 South London locations, including the Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill for thousands of clients.

LAST week, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, ordered the oil and gas industry regulator, Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to crash the price of kerosene in a few days.

Everything about the secondary school dropout, self-confessed ex- armed robber and sea pirate from Ayakoromor community in Burutu local government area of Delta State, John Togo, who the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, placed a N10 million prize for anybody that gives useful information on his whereabouts, is surrounded by controversy.

You don’t need anybody to tell you that Professor B.I.C. Ijomah is a man of letters. On Tuesday, May 10 when Sunday Vanguard kept a date with him at his Agidigbo Avenue residence at Asaba, the capital of Delta State, the evidence was palpable. The renowned sociologist, who turns 75 in November, had lined up in the four corners of his expansive study mountain of books, ranging from sociology to history, politics and religion. Spotting a white upon white indigenous attire with a patch of grey hair on his head, the retired professor of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, who is neck-deep in the politics of Delta State, was a delight to chat with. He spoke on the Northern agenda to perpetuate the region in power and the recent killings in the North; the vision of the defunct South-South Peoples Conference, SSOPEC, which metamorphosed into the South-South Peoples Assembly;