Anambra judiciary workers end four-month strike
JUDICIARY workers in Anambra State have called off their strike action which kept courts in the state under lock and key for four months.
President Jonathan at the door step of shame?
Benevolent spirits may have cracked his palm kernels but President Jonathan must have nudged them, by being effortlessly self effacing and disarmingly unambitious. The mien and disposition of a lamb amongst wolves alone may leave one with the inconsequentiality, the inconspicuousness, needed to progress untracked by envy but in Nigeria where the humble and hesitant are choked out by the nakedness of ambition and its riotousness , Jonathan was particularly fortunate .
Count your blessings
Two days ago, 2015 breathed its last and yielded its place to 2016. Definitely, many people have made or are making New Year resolutions. This is good, especially if the resolutions are SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time defined). They should also flow from your personal mission and vision.
The marginalisation debate
I can’t claim to know the late Torch Taire very well. But he was very close to my Oga, Mr Sam Amuka in many ways including proximity. They lived within a walking distance of each other, and they were, like the cliché, of identical plumage and therefore tended to flock together. My knowledge of him is therefore, largely vicarious since I visit Uncle Sam’s place fairly often. Anybody who knows Uncle Sam knows he is a completely detribalised person. So was Torch Taire.
Our partnership with MTN Foundation provides scholarship for the blind—Basharu
Barrister Danlami Basharu, CEO of Anglo Nigerian Welfare Association for the Blind (ANWAB). In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he narrated how his ordeal in life brought him fame, and how MTN Foundation partnership with ANWAB has brought scholarship for many blind people.
Enugu in 2015: Splashes that changed the political tide
The Enugu State House of Assembly had at the twilight of its tenure last May,initiated moves to impeach ex-governor Sullivan Chime over alleged misappropriation of the 2012 supplementary budget and gross official misconduct. Although the impeachment was dead on arrival because the move was coming barely two weeks to end of the administration,Chime flew a kite, purporting to have, with the aid of the factionalized members of the House, impeached Eugene Odoh,as Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly.
