An expert and a Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science, Prof. Hilary Inyang , yesterday explained why there was tremor in Kaduna State and why it could occur again.

In the publication authored by your Northern Region Editor, Soni Daniel, he set out to tag the speed limiting device initiative as a ploy to defraud Nigerian vehicle owners and on the same pedestal detoured with misrepresentation of facts bordering on the speed limiting device. We are therefore constrained to respond appropriately by putting the records straight.

THE recent confirmation of acting Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, as the substantive police boss in Nigeria after the tenure of Solomon Arase, has given credence to the fact that a journey started well will end well. Prior to his confirmation, the compulsory retirement of twenty-one Assistant Inspectors -General of Police came later in time and gave rise to some public commentaries and or appeals that the officers who were seniors in appointment to Acting Inspector- General of police, should not be compulsorily retired in one fell swoop.

WORDS and their meanings scared us as children. We stayed away from the high-sounding ones and accused the English language of complex instability in the behaviour of words and rules – synonyms, antonyms, lexis and structures etc; a phenomenon that affected the fortunes of our school career in those growing up years. Generally, the words […]

NATIONAL Security in the traditional sense is connected with the idea of sovereignty, territorial security, freedom from risk of danger of destruction and annihilation by war or aggression from outside. However with progressing globalisation, and the resultant economic inter-dependence has significantly reduced the probability of external aggression.