In Nigeria, the bane of development is insensitive and inexperienced leadership. This has plagued the system for the greater part of the country’s 50 years of existence. Indeed, the case is worse in the federating units of the nation called states, where no visible strategy is designed to elevate the people from the dungeon of poverty and under development.

Facial scarification, known as Igbu-ichi in parts of Igboland,is making a return from ancestry into the designs of Tony George Chidi Akudinobi. A visual thinker and quintessential poet of furniture-cum-interior design in the African mode, Akudinobi is the acclaimed Convener of the African Design Roundtable who holds pride of place for representing Nigeria at the 29th India International Trade Fair (Pragati Maidan) New Delhi.

IT was celebration galore for the Joint Task Force JTF) in Niger-Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, when its troops, June 23, accosted some purported sea pirates in the creek of Bayelsa State and shot dead six of them in a supposed gun battle, while the seventh suspect, who escaped with bullet wounds, later died.

The House of Representatives has threatened to commence impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan for failing to implement the budget as passed. Is this what they should be talking about at this period of instability in the country?

As the pioneer students of the Federal University,Oye Ekiti resumed, the management of the institution has vowed that it has zero tolerance for malpractices,even as it pledged to make the citadel of learning a model in Africa.