FOR the oil communities in the Niger-Delta, there is a misconception by both the Northern governors and Niger-Delta on what the 13 per cent derivation is all about. While the northern governors see it as booty for their southern counterparts and want it reduced, some South-south governors, indeed, think it is booty for them and have hijacked the fund from the oil communities, which it is meant for.

AS the London 2012 Olympics approaches swiftly, President of Taekwondo Federation of Nigeria, Dr Jonathan Nnaji is optimistic that the country’s two representatives in the sport, Chika Chukwumerije and Isa Mohammed would mine gold at the Games.

MOTORISTS and commuters plying the Lagos – Badagry and Oshodi/Apapa expressways, have on several occasions, been subjected to untold hardship occasioned by perennial traffic gridlock that has become a recurring decimal along the ever-busy road.

THE Lagos State commissioner for Transportation, Mr. KayodeOpeifa, said he had nothing more to say about the menace of tanker drivers along the Apapa -Oshodi expressway.

THERE are two traditional African sayings that “a man that lives near the river will not use spit to wash his hands” and “a man cannot be in the river and be looking for fish to eat”. Both mean the same thing, which is that one cannot be suffering in the midst of plenty.