NEIL Armstrong, one of America’s greatest icons of the 20th Century and the first man to walk on the moon, was only two years old when he developed interest to become an aircraft pilot. His dad took him to the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, and that was it. At six, he became convinced that he would devote his life to flying when he was taken on his first plane ride. He became a combat pilot for the US Navy. Later, Armstrong was chosen as a NASA astronaut. At the age of 35, he led the US Apollo space mission that fulfilled President John Kennedy’s boast to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the world that he would “put a man on the moon” to outshine the Soviet Union’s feat of landing Sputnik, the first unmanned spaceship, on the moon.

Nigeria faces a number of challenges that can only be met if it has innovative, well-educated, and entrepreneurial citizens who, whatever their walk of life, have the spirit and inquisitiveness to think in new ways, and the courage to meet and adapt to the challenges facing them. Moreover, a dynamic economy, which is innovative and able to create the jobs that are needed, will require a greater number of young people who are willing and able to become entrepreneurs, young people who will launch and successfully develop their own commercial or social ventures, or who will become innovators in the wider organisations in which they work.

PORT HARCOURT—Rivers State Commissioner for Housing, Mr Emma Okah, has lashed out at former president of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, for describing the decision of Rivers State government to restore the privileges and entitlements of deposed Governor Celestine Omehia as useless and capable of overheating the polity.

BENIN—IMMEDIATE past Minority Whip of the House of Representatives, Mr Samson Osagie, has described as mischievous and senseless the call in some quarters for the resignation of national chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, over the crisis bedevilling the National Assembly.

Yenagoa—elders and chiefs of Nembe Kingdom in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged secret sale of oil and gas reserves in the area by Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, without the involvement of the indigenes.

Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, weekend scaled the first hurdle in the Elections Petitions Tribunal as Justice A. S. Umar struck out the petition filed by the candidate of Labour Party, Senator Helen Esuene, seeking the nullification of his election as governor of the state. The presiding judge struck out Esuene’s petition on the ground of incompetence.

WHEN we read stories of the type of bank robberies that take place in Ikorodu, the most recent was last week, one gets the impression that the security agencies have conceded that part of Nigeria to armed robbers. They could rob and depart without any hindrances. It should not be so.

This is a shame if the federal, states and local governments cannot be trusted with public funds. No wonder those who aspire to hold public offices always make it a do or die affair. How can they be stealing our monies and show off as if they are gods? All I am waiting to see is the so-called change that APC government intends to bring but if not, it will then be a moral burden on them as so many APC members and those decamping from PDP and other parties to APC in order to protect their ill gotten wealth.

You know, education gives you a wide horizon to dive into anything you want so that was why when I found I had this passion, I started studying all I could about soybean, from the planting of the seeds, to harvesting, the drying and the usage. I started experimenting, first, with the soybean and I saw that the oil was very good.

Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has warned the new administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, to be wary of policy dictatorship of some vested interests aimed at undermining his electoral promises of putting an end to mass poverty and transforming the country’s economy and society to prosperity.