It is really very sad that 49 years after independence, we’ve not developed ourselves. It is just like one having a child who is supposed to be a full grown man but is still developing clay feet at 49. You find out that in terms of education, people in Nigeria even take their wards to study in Benin Republic and Accra because of the fact that our institutions have not been developed.

Wife of the Benue state Governor, Arc Mrs. Yemisi Dooshima Suswam has described the death of Mrs. Mariam Babangida as a great loss to the nation and the less privileged Nigeria women whose lives she touched in special ways.

NATIONAL Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, yesterday, warned those planning to rig the February 6 governorship election in Anambra State to drop the idea saying the party would resist any attempt by any contestant or political party to deny the people of the state their rights to elect a governor of their choice.

Welcome to 2010! There is no doubt that every new year brings its own surprises- positive and negative. This fact, however, does not dissuade pundits from making predictions stemming from their knowledge of the workings and on-goings in the Nigerian music terrain. In view of this, let’s look at the musical possibilities of 2010 and maybe a little of the ‘promise and fail(s)’ that befell 2009.

Many summed the year 2009 as a near disaster for football in Nigeria. The country’s qualification for the World Cup in South Africa was indeed a face-saving measure for football in the year.