Osun@25: The legacy side of the coin
Today, Osun State marks its 25th year of existence. The state was created alongside 11 other states, (Abia, Adamawa, Anambra, Delta, Edo, Enugu, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kogi, Taraba and Yobe), on August 27, 1991 by former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida.
Petrochemicals and adventurous diversification expedition
John Sculley a U.S. businessman, entrepreneur and investor in high-tech startups in this technology quote said ‘’We try to picture what the products will be and then say, what technology should we be working on today to help us get there?’’ That should be the spirit in finding solutions to complex problems but who leads the symphony orchestra? That is our failing and melancholy as a nation.
Pastor Adeboye and the Maelstrom
Every father owes his children a little marriage talk. Fears and idiosyncrasies, regrets and dreams , magic and blunders will intermingle. Political correctness won’t feature. The father wants for them – a head start. If the father thinks marriage is blissful but sacred , and divorce is a catastrophic last resort , his wisdom would be cautionary. Age sees beyond the shimmer of youth . It has witnessed the death of too many fantasies. Old eyes may dim from wear but the benefit of retrospection makes the old, despite its tears, more reliable. Hindsight ,they say, is perfect vision.
An obvious misfit
The traditional visit to Aso Rock had not yet been made before this was written. We hope it would include all the journalists who fed us with those juicy news items from Rio 2016. In actual fact, there was not so much juice in what could be sent home about Nigeria, though we heard about the twenty-something medals of Phelps and the “triple-triple” of Bolt. We did not prepare for the performances that produce such results, and we all know that. There had been other times when good fortune gave us what we did not really deserve, but this was not one of them.
MEND kowtows to N-Delta leaders
WARRI: THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, yesterday, in Warri, accepted the headship of former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, promising to disband its Aaron Team 2 Niger-Delta Dialogue and Peace Initiative, led by Odein Ajumogobia, SAN, in due course.
CAN in 19 Northern states harps on unity among members
Christians leaders in the 19 States of the North and the Federal Capital Territory under the aegis of the Northern Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN have reiterated the need for unity in churches in the region, saying that without unity, the Church as the body of Christ, could be stampeded by the enemies who do not mean well for them.
