LAMENTATIONS about poverty are becoming rituals that issue from most gatherings of the North’s leadership.

Fortunately, enough voices within the North blame the region for failing to use 38 years of leading national governments to develop the North. Governor Aliyu Babangida of Niger State shifts the blame to traditional rulers, who he said discourage education.

ENUGU- The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday cleared all the 17 chairmanship seats and 259 out of 260 councillorship seats in Saturday’s council polls with most of the opposition parties backed out, while the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, won the remaining one councillorship position.

Guinness Nigeria Plc, one of the foremost brewing companies and a significant player in the manufacturing sector of the Nigerian economy, has announced its official sponsorship of Carnival Calabar.

Our dear nation needs and deserve peace and stability if we are to match the expectation of becoming a global nation of, and for development.”

States and Local Governments in the country have been alleged to be the biggest albatross of the contributory pension scheme powered by the Pension Reform Act 2004.