THOSE who are familiar with my political discourses know that I am an unapologetic supporter of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Ph.D., GCFR. I have been a “GEJite” or, if you like, a “Jonathanian” (a term coined by Nasir El Rufai thinking it is derisive) since October, 2009, when it became clear that late President Umaru Yar’adua was unlikely to continue as Nigeria’s President due to ill-health.

Effort to retool Nigerian students for 21st century learning environment using Information Communication Technology has started yielding the expected results as over seventy-five more students from twenty-five Nigerian universities have been selected as Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) at this year’s Microsoft Nigeria Student Partner on-boarding event which held at Elizade University, Akure, Nigeria.

THE high prevalence of corruption is antithetical to the development of any nation. This does not only render public institutions ineffective, it breeds impunity and lawlessness. How the alarming rate of corruption can be drastically reduced will surely be of interest to Nigerian voters this time around. It is not new to many that the image of the country outside is a source of utmost concern.

THE Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, obviously regards himself as the head of a mob of urban protesters, given his recent action at the Police Headquarters, Abuja the other day, where he faced a rowdy APC barricade in the premises in his bid to deliver a protest letter to the IGP. Earlier at a rally, the governor had promised “civil disobedience” and “parallel government” as premeditated APC response to an unfavourable outcome of the 2015 elections. He appeared to care less about the ominous consequences of such anarchy.

WATCHING the transformation of the Ijaw group from a passive, friendly and harmless people in the sixties and seventies, to the ferocious, war mongering and hubris displaying people of today, is a handful assignment for researchers of societal inter relationships.