IT’S been more than a week since Fidel Castro, Cuba’s revolutionary leader for nearly half a century, died.  As I write this in the afternoon of Sunday 4th December, 2016, the people of Cuba are in the final stages of the burial ceremonies of their leader whose ashes are to be interred in Santiago de […]

AN accessory before the fact is one whose will contributes to the felony committed and he must be too far away to render assistance, or he becomes a principal in the second degree.

THE Christmas season is here. In no other part of the country is the Yuletide celebrated as much as it is in the South East and South-South (the heart of Nigeria’s Christendom). It is a time when a chunk of the Igbo Diaspora returns home for the annual communal and family reunions.

A fiscal plan is usually a clear and precise statement of what government hopes to realistically earn as income and how much it would spend within a given time frame. Thus in a year, if projected incomes exceed expenditures, a surplus will be available as savings or to apply responsibly to revamping vital social infrastructure. Conversely, where projected expenditure exceeds actual income, the shortfall will invariably be funded with loans or savings.

NIGERIA in 1988, had just a handful of human or civil right organisations. They were in their infancy in a country with very high mortality rate.