Everything went into it. Emotions, lobbying and ultimately politics. Those played a key role in the passage of the South East Development Commission Bill, SEDC to second reading at the House of Representatives Thursday.

The second key factor of the project is the scope of its beauty and modernity. The sheer joy of watching, before our very eyes, Chinese and Nigerian engineers ploughing through thick and swampy equatorial forests, cutting down giant vegetation, and painstakingly laying state-of-the-art rail sleepers with skill and dexterity, and then proceeding to roll out air-conditioned passenger coaches in a record two year time was a sight to behold.

I do not profess to have superior knowledge of issues involved in the management of business in Nigeria, but as a businessman, I will make effort to share practical insights from my experience of managing a business in our dear country in the past decades. I expect that through that, we shall see some of the challenges of doing business in Nigeria and at the same time, appreciate the prospects that they provide for us.

The direct impulse to the writing of this piece came from six separate inspections trips of the new 158.5km, double-track Standard Gauge railway line from Ibadan to Lagos which is about to be flagged off for use in May.

When Mr. Godwin Emefiele was appointed Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN), five years ago, he assumed office with a focus- to run “a people oriented CBN.” 

I have read the interview granted by the Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, which was given a copious mention in the May 6, 2019 edition of The Nation.

With respect to the presidential electoral campaigns, ethnic associations vociferously expressed support for their preferred candidates.  However, the support of the associations featured contradictory positions taken by either factions within some ethnic associations or by competing associations in the name of the same ethnic group. Thus, for example, in the South-west (predominantly Yoruba), Afenifere (“authentic”) supported Atiku while the branches of the association in Lagos and Ekiti states supported Buhari. Similarly, in the South-east (predominantly Igbo), the national executive of Ohaneze Ndigbo supported Atiku while the national secretary of the association and some prominent members supported Buhar

FOLLOWING repeated outcries by residents of Ajegunle over unending siege by trucks and other articulated vehicles, Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, July last year visited to see things for himself and was confronted by a traumatic traffic situation that had effectively crippled all productive activities in the area.

IT is always difficult to talk of rule of law in Nigeria. While senior public officers continue to give the impression that the country is operated under the rule of law their actions and utterances suggest otherwise. It is so worrisome that provisions of the Constitution are conveniently sacrificed for political expediency or self-aggrandisement of highly placed public officers. In the process, the country is reduced to a banana republic where the rule of law is substituted for the rule of the rulers

The Managing Director of New Telegraph, Newspaper, Funke Egbemode was, Saturday, re-elected as President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE for another two- year term.