President Nixon succeeded Lyndon Johnson, who voluntarily rejected the second term bid once he found his country sharply divided, and, he, the President was the centre of all the raging and violent controversies. Nixon was later consumed by a crime called the Watergate Affair.

There’s a proverb which says ‘when you’re dancing in the village square, it’s onlookers who can judge whether you’re dancing well or not.’

One of my greatest fears is someday to wake up and to hear that the University of Jos, my beloved alma mater, has ceased to be, and has been renamed the Yakubu Gowon University. Or that the University of Ibadan would come to be known as Olusegun Obasanjo University; and since the inimitable Nnamdi Azikiwe in his lifetime vigorously rejected the moves by Jubril Aminu as minister for education to rename the University of Nigeria, Nsukka after him, perhaps, then it might become Alex Ekwueme University.

In addition to all the above, the Executive Secretary has consolidated operations of NICO’s affiliate offices in the six geo-political zones of the country. Ayakoroma is also working tirelessly to strengthen collaboration between NICO and other corporate organisations, state governments, and international bodies.

When it rains, it really pours. Lately it seems people are getting it from all sides when it comes to trouble. There is no life that is trouble free but the worldwide recession certainly paints a gloomy picture of the new reality. I am all for hope and I certainly exercise my faith in speaking things that aren’t as though they are but there are times I feel like a balloon that is loosing air and getting smaller daily.

Students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and other interest groups who some days ago vehemently objected to the renaming of that University after the late statesman and democrat, Moshood Abiola (MKO) may have their reasons.

AFTER some years in the banking industry, Reverend Christina Bamidele George (nee Ogbemudia) resigned in 1985 and went into business with her husband. In 1990, she became born again and almost immediately felt a leading to a unique mission to dedicate her life to the cause of saving abused, abandoned and orphaned children in the society.

“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members” —Pearl S. Buck

Owning a car in Nigeria is a necessity, as it is the most reliable form of transportation. It is not about how many one has in his or her garage (that is if you have a garage), but how useful they are. Should you decide to own more than one car, it is your prerogative and obviously the reasons will vary from household to household, and also from business to business.

There are times when I start saying something about Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and stop mid-sentence. It would suddenly occur to me that, no matter what, he is still the President of the country in which resides the most populous conglomeration of black people on this planet.