Education is a necessary tool in today’s environment, it is the operating system for our survival. Being formally educated increases one’s chances of getting good employment, we are more informed so we get more opportunities, know more about our world and even see more of it.

As catch phrases go, this is as good as many. And those who have been attracted—or entrapped—in the past by alluring phrases like ‘Land of the flowing sun’, The paradise of the East’, ‘An exotic blend of Western and Eastern civilisation’ to mention a few, only to find that what was offered and purchased was not what was delivered will hesitate to buy into it. (Nobody to my knowledge has been able to melt the sun to see its liquid form.)

When Gov Nyako’s memo to Northern Governors’ Forum first leaked to the press, there was a huge argument on whether the letter was real or forged.

The abduction of 230 girls from their school in Chibok, Borno State, has shocked Nigerians and made headlines all over the world.

IT is a fact that some of the economically advanced nations in the Western World practice and embrace democratic institutions.

He has served as sports minister during which he became the President of Nigeria Olympic Committee, a post he holds till date. He has one regret today.

At creation, all men were equal but the circumstances of birth and the accident of geography played major roles in determining the final outcome.

After the spate of mayhems committed by insurgents masquerading as Fulani herdsmen in the South West, North Central and isolated communities in the Niger Delta, an expanded security meeting of the federal and state governments has resolved it is time to end the madness. Part of the plan, we hear, is to persuade the cattle Fulani to exit their nomadic lifestyle and embrace the ranching option, a policy an official inappropriately called “domestication”.

Despite my hope and preferred choices, I was made a member of the Political Parties and Electoral Matters Committee of the National Conference. Frankly, I had wanted, above all else, to serve in the committee dealing with political restructuring issues.

ITis indeed pertinent to ask if President Goodluck Jonathan, the armed forces over which he presides as Commander-in-Chief, and other security agencies, will go after the terrorists that abducted more than 200 teenage girls into their hideout in Sambisa Forest, in Borno State.