By Yetunde Arebi Hi,     How far will you go to get out of a situation? The story below is narrated by a young, Public Relations executive named Cynthia who after an affair with a charming, young man went into depression for almost two year. How did it happened? Find out as she shares her story […]

The road where the players bus gets to a Carrefour and a player decides to jump the bus and take what he considers is his own way forward.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) was lately reported to have decried as ill advised and insensitive, the retention of the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 12%, by Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

Your Excellency, Mr.President, it does not matter anymore who wins the 20I5 elections. Nigeria at that time will need a leader who can manage widespread poverty at the Federal level and state governors, unlike the wastrels we now have, running the show. By 2015, Nigeria’s crude oil exports and earnings will be far less than what we realize now.

ON Saturday, 18th November 2012, I arrived at the JFK International Airport, New York, on my way back to Nigeria after covering the US presidential elections. It was on this day that I underwent the most humiliating security browsing of my person.

Where is God when bad things happen? The psalmist says: “Our God is in heaven.” (Psalm 115:3). He has always been in heaven and he will always be in heaven. Solomon says: “God is in heaven, and you on earth.” (Ecclesiastes 5:2).

When President Goodluck Jonathan observed not long ago that members of a dreaded insurgent group had infiltrated his own government, some people thought it was politics. From the look of things, it is becoming difficult to doubt the assertion.

Expectedly the President’s declaration of emergency has provoked harsh criticism from the usual opposition groups – particularly the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. As someone born and bred in progressive politics, I had spent all my life in the same camp as the progressives – even if, lately, the Awoists and progressives have started to resemble, increasingly, like the conservatives they want to replace at the centre.

Indigenous Nigerian cultures, Christianity, and Islam recommend marriage for everyone. For instance, Christianity teaches that he who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favour from God (assuming that such a being exists). Because The Holy Bible appears to have been written from a fundamentally masculine perspective, there is no mention of a wife finding a good thing if she gets a husband. Islam also encourages marriage, while according to native customs and traditions, an unmarried state for both men and women is an abomination.

Considering the spate of unemployment amongst secondary and tertiary school leavers across the country today, what programmes do you have in place to encourage self-employment and address unemployment?