Speakers after speakers who themselves are telecom operators in Nigeria and other stakeholders addressed various aspects of investment opportunities that are now beckoning in the broadband sub-sector of the telecom sector as a whole especially how Nigeria can harness and utilize the growing opportunities.

Last Friday, May 6, 2011, at around 10.00pm, just as the office was about closing production activities, BusinessWorld corporate office came under attack from heavily-armed robbers who came in through the front doors.

AMIDST all these thunderous chaos occasioned by terrorist attacks across the country within the space of one week of madness from December 24, 2010 to December 29, 2010; amidst the violence, mayhem and pogrom perpetrated by the terrorists; sectarian extremists and other sundry criminals stands the Nigerian security and intelligence community – confused, looking dazed and dazzled, helpless and impotent, looking stupid and forlorn of hope, overwhelmed and brow-beaten, shame-faced and completely unable to stand up to and unravel the identities of the enemies of the State.

KHAYYÁM wrote a book entitled Explanations of the difficulties in the postulates in Euclid’s Elements. The book consists of several sections on the parallel postulate (Book I), on the Euclidean definition of ratios and the Anthyphairetic ratio (modern continued fractions) (Book II), and on the multiplication of ratios (Book III).

TWO weeks ago, one of my younger brothers called me on phone from Ile-Ife, asking me whether I know an “Alicia de la Rosa”. “You mean the Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha”? I asked in turn. He answered affirmatively. “She had passed on to the Greater Beyond at the age 86. I heard the news from the BBC this morning”.

EVEN in the face of a billow seemingly beclouding the Nigerian banking industry - orchestrating doubt and pessimism on the Nigerian economy - Banks and bankers in the country have demonstrated class and strength as they gallop to win two most prestigious rewards of the Bankers Award 2009 edition.

It is tragic that we are still sleepwalking in the groove of our mental backwardness. We have misplaced the sign-posts of development. We are yet to get our priority right. This is why we have been hostile to some of our policy makers in recent times.