lBAGAUDA KALTO, of the News magazine, abducted from his room in Durbar Hotel and murdered during the Abacha dictatorship. Since then, there have been no clues as to who did it.

10 years after the gruesome murder of Chief Ajibola Ige, no person has been successfully prosecuted in the typically Nigerian manner of unresolved high profile murders. This is the story of the murder of Bola Ige and the issues surrounding it.

Last Wednesday, chairman senate committee on electoral matters, Senator Andy Uba turned 53. For a man who has been buffeted by the vagaries of life, he had every cause to celebrate. From being the typical businessman in the United States, Andy by acting the Good Samaritan was catapulted by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to become one of the most powerful Presidential Assistants in Nigerian history.

With just two days to the planned commencement of tolls collection at Admiralty Circle plaza on the ever-busy Lekki –Eti-Osa Expressway, palpable anxiety is already being generated in the area as residents of Eti-Osa, Epe and Ibeju-Lekki have vowed to resist the move.

Just 28 months ago, guns… guns…guns everywhere in the core Niger Delta region of Nigeria . The country was on the precipice of economic bankruptcy. The cold realities stared the then President, Late Musa Yar’ Adua in the face as the hostilities in the Niger Delta, the nation’s cash cow, raged on…