A closer look at the Zero Rated Access Initiative, by Okoh Aihe
The NCC programme wasn’t part of my schedule last week but the insistence of a young employee drew me to the Hilton, venue of the programme, and I left very appreciative that I found my way there. Sometimes, you need to clear your schedule to do certain things. This was one of them. As I […]
Alhassan and the game of long knives
THOSE who thought that Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting would be the political funeral for Minister of Women Affairs Aisha Alhassan may have exaggerated her dilemma after all.
Reshaping Humanity: 150 Years of Das Kapital
HUMANITY yesterday, September 14, 2017 reached a milestone; the 150th year, Das Kapital by German Thinker, Karl Marx, was published. Understandably, it was not marked worldwide. Yet, the ideas propounded in the book, changed and shaped the 20th Century; from the Great Revolutions of Russia in 1917 through that of the 1949 Chinese Revolution to the unforgettable Cuban Revolution a decade later.
Bayelsan youths excel
ACCORDING to Elder Markson Fefegha, Commissioner of Education, the Bayelsa State Government has pledged to continue investing in education because of its strong commitment to developing human capital.
Half a budget is worse than no budget
All one can now ask for is a budget cycle with some semblance to the illiterate farmer’s farming circle – in which Appropriation Bills shall be presented to the NASS not later than the end of August every year
All hues, All flavours
And now as ‘radical’ Lamidos contend with the ‘reactionary’ Walis of their PDP, to pick its ticket, they have to worry also about the ‘aristocratic’ Atikus of APC possibly crossing carpet to trade tackles with them; even as they all have to contend with the incumbent might of an ‘autocratic’ Buhari asking for a second term
