The original concept was to instill discipline among young graduates. The graduates would then do community work and pass on their acquired discipline to the youths and others they meet. Our youths would be burning with the feverof national interest, espousing ideas which their training would foster. Like yeast to bread this nationalism would swell the bread of Nigeria, pushing the nation beyond self and tribe. This was why Youth Corpers were posted outside their states to learn about other cultures and impress on those cultures the overwhelming singularity of Nigerianess. Our future leaders would be well grounded in the concept and life of Nigerianess over and above destructive ethnicity. I may be overstating the aims but I think that, by and large, my characterisation is true.

SOME eminent Nigerians, elder statesmen, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, dissected President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year speech and returned as grim verdict.

From “political sharia” to Boko Haram and rampaging Fulani herdsmen of the Apocalypse, our people have known only blood, sorrow and tears

OIL Producing Communities in Ondo State, at the weekend, kicked against alleged lopsidedness in the distribution of top management positions in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for the past 17 years.

The  Managing Director of Poise Graduate Finishing Academy,  PGFA, Mr. Asher has urged Nigerian youths to key into Career KickStart, a  programme designed to help  disadvantaged youths become competitively employable within the job market.