A knowledgeable friend himself, a former director of the First Bank, told me there are many ways you could do the chicken. You could call the shareholders to increase their participation even with deadlines. And you could ask bankers to court if you suspect they fiddle the till. Nowhere in a civilized world you parade bankers in the full-view of the like of EFCC. Where else in the world would you expose the indebtedness of customer?

A man takes his children on a weekend of camping; they have a beautiful time, meet others and are about setting off back home. To round off the trip, the elder daughter decides to go for one last boat ride with her brother and as they head back disaster strikes.

I plead with my readers to bear with me one more time so that we can properly conclude our indepth critique of Wallace’s and Olatunji’s fallacies and deliberate misinterpretations of the theory of evolution. Last week we drew attention to the fact that Adam and Eve, the first human beings allegedly created directly by God were amoral ab initio, according to the book of Genesis.

Could it be that Christianity is the most permissive religion in the world, or of the object of worship of what other faith could a professed adherent have casually remarked what was reported of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo about the conduct of elections in Nigeria?

GREECE for many of us is far away from our shores. Except for the Europeans, the rest of us do not belong to the European Union (EU), the club Greece belongs .

The formal channels of communication, formerly mostly newspapers, magazines, radio, television, films, represent the increasing and various methods of publicising events and ideas.

LAST week, the British general election results were inconclusive. The ruling Labour Party was humiliatingly forced into second place by the Conservative Party, which won the most parliamentary seats. But the Conservatives didn’t win enough seats to secure an overall majority and a political deadlock ensued.

It all started shortly after we began taking his course. He would go on and on about our dressing, picking some of us out of the crowd. I was his first casualty, nothing I did seems to please him. One day he told me to see him after the end of the lecture in his office. He said he wanted to ask me a few things and advise me on how to go about life. It was a big lie.

But it is not clear at what point, exactly, that statecraft morphed into kleptocracy, to the extent that the only reason anti-graft government agencies are set up is to get rid, or keep in check, the enemies of the powers that be. The general unspoken agreement has it as somewhere within the maze of our protracted military intervention(s) when, while literally holding a gun to our heads, the soldiers promoted themselves to the highest ranks possible without fighting a single war and cleared out the evergreen treasury in the mean time.

WHEN I first read about the intentions of the Imo State Government to infuse a massive number of 10,000 jobs into its public service, like many others, I was incredulous.