WHAT made Steve Jobs outstanding in the high-tech world where he was an aristocrat was his focus on using technology to deliver entertainment and information in as convenient a way as possible. Witness: the PC, the i-Pod, which made enjoyment of music a mobile activity, the i-Phone, and the i-Pad.

A cleric is advocating a forum for the training of our political leaders, saying it will equip them for quality service to the people.

HIGH Chief Edem Duke, the Honourable Minister of Tourism, Culture & National Orientation, needs little introduction. Before becoming a minister, he has never really left the public domain, ever since 1994 when he succeeded Ogbuefi (now Igwe) Alex Nwokedi as GM, Public Affairs of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

Government has over the years insisted that the subsidy it pays on petroleum products are too much for it to bear and that almost all the funds go into private pockets at the end of the day. Therefore, government’s position is that it would be better if it removes the subsidy so that the few fat cats reaping the country off would no longer do so. Below is a compilation of the way governments over the years have removed what it claimed to be subsidies on petroleum products.

The world is a global village; its size and distance less of a hindrance to communication and interaction. The conquering of the air for flight and sea for voyages began the downsizing of the vast geographical entity that is the earth.

I was still mentally rummaging for a subject to write about when I saw Disu Kamor’s ‘Palestine statehood: Significance of Nigeria’s vote’ (‘Peoples Daily’, Monday, Oct 3, 2011). It made more than ‘interesting reading’, and I thought it deserves a place on my page this week.

One of the immanent genetic defects that have stunted the growth of Nigeria was the duplicitous political inequality between the North and the South created by the departing British administrators.

Governor Olusegun Mimiko speaks on Ondo State home grown Mother and Child Hospital recently adopted by the World Bank as a model to stem infant and maternal mortality in Africa. Mimiko also sheds light on the state’s Agricultural Villagers and mega schools, and says his administration is bridging the class gap in Ondo.

I believe that the last election reflected the qualities of two main characters, that of the President and Commander-in-Chief, President Goodluck Jonathan and that of Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega.

My people perish for lack of knowledge” is a Biblical injunction. And ever since the statement was made some two thousand years ago, many families, towns and even nations have not fully realised the importance of education, hence they still perish.

In Journalism, sign language can, once a while, be more expressive than written communication. Here, I remember a famous cartoon some years back which figuratively requested the weather man to tell us point blank if it would rain the next day so that while going to work we could take our umbrellas with us.

We had been having that frustrating period of half-current electricity supply for a couple of weeks, and were trying to decide whether it wasn’t better for our sight and appliances to abandon PHCN and switch to a generator.

In March 1964 (not 1947), Mallam Bashari Umaru introduced a bill in the Northern House to “revoke forthwith all certificates of occupancy in the hands of the Ibos resident in the North” to which the Northern Minister for Lands and Survey, Mr. Ibrahim Musa Dagash responded:“I would like to assure members that having heard their demands about Ibos holding land in Northern Nigeria, my ministry will do all it can to see that the demands of members are met. How to do it, when to do it, all this should not be disclosed.”

The South-south governors, Friday, converged in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, to fine tune strategy on the process of economic cooperation and integration of the states in the zone.