Editorials Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Masaba, the man with 86 wives

INCREDIBLE things constantly happen in Nigeria but perhaps none is as bizarre and engaging as that of Mohammed Bello Abubakar Masaba who married 86 wives. The man from Bida, Niger State, is father to over 170 children. [GUARDIAN]

Improving the road, rail sectors

The Federal Government recently unveiled a three-year plan to improve Nigerian roads. Under the plan, the government is also revisiting the railway modernization project initiated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. [DAILY SUN]

Babatunde Jose

The grand old man of the pen profession, who passed on on Saturday, August 2, this year, rose from the lowest rungs as a technical trainee at Daily Times of Nigeria, Lagos, between 1941 and 1946 and reached the topmost rung of the leadership ladder of the then conglomerate as its Managing Director (1962-1976) and chairman (1968-1976). [DAILY CHAMPION]