The aviation sector best explains the scenario. For example, it is difficult for the domestic airlines to afford new and functional planes because they don’t have the financial muscle and so they buy relatively cheap and very old aircraft.

SENATOR Gyang Dalyop Dantong may just become the most famous politician from Plateau State, not for reasons many easily think. His new status has a lot to do with how he died, but more to do with his roots, which are firmly found in his Berom kindred.

IN the last one week, Edo people have been treated to what charitably may go for a circus show. Adams Oshiomhole, the Comrade-Governor and gaffe impresario, who is better known for his provocative, if not outright inane public utterances, came from the blues and declared as unaccepted, the opposition parties’ proposition that youth corps members serving in the state might not to be fair umpires and therefore should not be used as electoral officers in Saturday’s governorship election.

IN the next few days the territory of Nigeria which President Goodluck Jonathan swore as Commander-in-Chief to defend may shrink by several hundreds of square kilometres; almost the equivalent of a state. And this is vital territory in the oil-rich Bakassi region of the Gulf of Guinea.

THE secondary schools which were mainly mission, community and private were now denied the great capital and recurrent funds and the very significant unpaid man-power inputs which used to flow into the system from the missions and voluntary agencies.