IT was Jon Huntsman, American billionaire businessman and entrepreneur who in his humbler days worked as special assistant to the president during the first term of the Nixon administration that wrote in his bestselling book, Winners Never Cheat: “There are no moral shortcuts in the game of life.

AT a recent public ceremony in Ngwa land, the Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji, declared his readiness to offer amnesty to repentant kidnappers.

In the maze of the woes the political elites have sunk the Nigerian people, good news comes our way only once in a while. Such was the case when the Supreme Court sent an usurper, Andy Uba packing from the Anambra State Government House and restored the legitimate administration of Peter Obi.

“In my next administration, I’m hoping to first of all solve the problems from the source. You will remember I was talking about the US system which countered the negative effects of unemployment by establishing some institutional cushions to alleviate the poverty and the sufferings of the poor, the unemployed, the youths and their retraining programmes, and of course the provision of power

Ade, (29), Accountant: “I can’t remember clearly if the pains started immediately after I began menstruating or not. But if it didn’t, it couldn’t have been much longer. I began menstruating at the age of 14 years, a bit late because many of my age mates had started before then. Whenever the thing came, I would be so ill that going to school used to be a great problem.