NIGERIA is the seventh most populous country in the world, 39th top economy but unfortunately occupies the 70th spot on the global electricity production chart, according the CIA World Fact book.

The Minister of State, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Darius Dickson Ishaku, is optimistic that the 2014 deadline for the completion of the East West Road project would be met.

It is now very obvious, even to those who had initial doubts about the veracity of the claim by scientists of rising global temperatures, that there is a change in the global climate pattern. Before now, the phrase ‘global warming’ seemed more like a joke; however, with the way climate has changed in recent times, the reality of what had hitherto been considered a fiction, and thought of as only perhaps real in what some termed “the delusional world of the scientist”, is now glaring for all to see.

They were called terrorists, insurgents, religious extremists, political killers, Boko Haram and finally ghosts. They were told that amnesty is for humans and not ghosts. But suddenly, here comes a package for ghosts. Saturday Vanguard’s LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU in this special piece chronicles the genesis, the politics and latest amnesty offer to Boko Haram Islamic sect.

Recently, President Goodluck Jonathan succumbed to the pressures to grant presidential amnesty to members of Boko Haram sect.