THIS becomes critical though, considering the vantage position of Lagos as the former federal capital of Nigeria and the commercial hub of Nigeria, which has continued to make it attractive to immigrants from both within and outside Nigeria in search of a better life. Lagos houses both the busiest sea ports and airports in Nigeria and serves as the headquarters to most corporations and national conglomerates.

THE attention of the Management of Nigeria Immigration Service has been drawn to a flagrant and unfathomable publication in This Day Newspaper of Thursday, February 10, 2011 entitled: “The Rebranding War in Immigration”.

ALL over the world there is a growing appetite for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as a vehicle for the financing of public infrastructure.

THE candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan represents a new dawn in the social, economic and political history of Nigeria since independence. In a country fraught with political thuggery and intolerance since independence, the entrance of the Dr. Jonathan into Nigeria’s troubled political mainstream has greatly minimised political, religious and economic tension considering his patient and intelligent maneuvers.

IT is seldom said that those who live in a glass house should not throw stones, because they might end up becoming victims.

ON February 13, 2011, it will be precisely 35 years our former Head of State, General Murtala Muhammed, was assassinated on a black Friday (February 13, 1976) in a military coup.

FOR anyone who has followed his career, it would not come as a surprise that Chris Ogiemwenyi a petroleum engineer and the Minister of State in the Federal Ministry of Works has brought glamour and competence into the act of governance in just few months on the job.

RIGHT from his inauguration as the Chairman of Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, Bashorun Askia Ogieh (JP) has always had a clear vision of the enormity of the task before him.

ONE of the most complex problems in Nigeria, it has been dispassionately observed, is that of recycled leadership.

For the past one month or so, several articles have been published in some national dailies analysing the political situation in Kwara State in manners that suggest that the people of the state remain perpetually subservient to the Saraki political dynasty.

The election of Governor Ibrahim Shekarau to fly the flag of the ANPP in the April presidential election is most timely, appropriate and a cheering news to all lovers of democracy across the land.

My complaint is with regard to a report by your reporter, Victoria Ojeme. The story is at page 22 of Sunday Vanguard of February 6, 2010. It is titled, “FG’s War against cholera at risk – storage of vaccines raises eye brow”. Beside the story is a photograph of the vaccines referred to in the story with the caption, “Imported vaccines allegedly left under the sun”.

THIS explains the root of African brotherliness. It also emphasizes the African notion that man is sacred and should be respected, catered for and sustained in charity by others.

IN the past few weeks at Harvard University, the discussion has been on the revolution in Egypt. Many African students have discussed the possibilities of an Egyptian-type revolution happening anywhere else in Africa. Nigeria was at the centre of the discussion and the question was: Can the kind of revolution we have seen unfolding in Egypt happen in Nigeria?

IN his monumental work, African Philosophy: A Historico-Hermeneutical Investigation of the Conditions of its Possibility (1983), he stated that “by interpreting the symbols of a culture that one can arrive at reflection and philosophy”.