Believe it or not, Cossy Orjiakor doesn’t leave prisoners wherever she goes. You may say her boobs have been with us too long to make much impact on us any more but each time these humongous pair come in sight they always leave a long line of gawpers in their wake.

“I am concerned, just like other IT Professionals that while technology is at the center of the electoral processes, this is the time to pay attention to IT as the bedrock of national development. “General Muhammadu Buhari may not deliver the dividend of democracy, unless IT and IT professionals are at the centre of his leadership program” the Oracle of the Nigerian IT industry who championed the IT policy blueprint in 2001 said.

Although technology was at the centre of the just concluded 2015 elections, Nigerian IT practitioners have expressed fresh concern saying that Nigeria may not reap the benefits of digital economy of the 21st century unless the present government listens to the wake up call of making Information Technology the centrepiece of national development mission.

Igwe Ezeoba Alex Nwokedi, the Uthopo na Eze Achalla, Anambra State, is a man of many parts. He was Press Secretary to Head of State during the General Olusegun Obasanjo military regime and also served in the same capacity during the early days of Alhaji Shehu Shagari administration. He was pioneer Public Relations Manager of Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, ECN, and General Manager, Public Affairs, NNPC. The former Chairman, Eastern Nigeria Council of Traditional Rulers, in this interview, speaks on the state of the nation, the last elections and the Igbo position.

INVESTMENT consultants, Broll Properties, have projected the operation of shopping malls as having the potentials to grow bigger than telecommunications success in Nigeria in the near future.

Eko Foundation, a non-political, socio-cultural outfit, under its foundation Chairman, Alhaji Hakeem Damola, alongside its President, Professor Wole Smith, and the Secretary, Mr Tayo Sasanya, has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, and the APC on their victory at the 2015 polls.

Before we forget in the euphoria to get rid of PDP, we must ask questions about the conduct of the last elections.
Who had what contract? Was it to produce permanent voter cards (PVC)?
What did the contract say?
Who signed the contract to produce PVCs?

May, 1999. The meeting held somewhere in Apapa, Lagos. It was a meeting of some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM. And the then Vice President-elect, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was in attendance. The main agenda was the choice of who would be chosen as Senate President. The ostensible choice was Dr. Chuba Okikadigboli Okadigbo, a man of cerebral elocution and an intellectual thinker with a tincture of nativity. It was agreed that on the day of inauguration of the Senate, Okadigbo would be voted in as Senate President. Of course he had all that was required to lead the Senate and, by extension, the National Assembly.

Starting line-ups for the Champions League final between Juventus and Barcelona at the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, on Saturday:

“I believe it is totally unrealistic for any woman to be expected to feel love for a child she hadn’t carried through pregnancy and brought into the world”. Declares Serah, a 48-year old school proprietress, six years into a second marriage to Nathan. They both had two children each from their previous marriage. She continues: “If you haven’t cared for them when they were helpless babies, or kissed a toddler’s graze better, how can you be expected to love them the same way as your own flesh and blood?