WHEN in August, the Rivers State Government conducted recruitment examinations towards boosting the state’s teachers’ workforce with an estimated 13,000 fresh hands, the supervising Ministry of Education had thought the process it instituted for the exercise was perfect and exemplary.

Being young is considered by some people as being problematic. However, Unyime thinks differently even as a youth development advocate that being young is a gift and it should be put into appropriate use in making the society a better place. No wonder he believes that societal ills are only a reminder to young people to take action. This week will bring to you the story of Unyime from the Niger Delta Region on efforts and initiative in bringing about a better world.

RECENTLY, the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, OAUTHC, recorded a landmark by performing the first successful laparoscopic surgery in a government owned hospital in Nigeria, utilising a medical team comprising only Nigerian doctors.

Governor Babatunde of Lagos state has often passionately made a case for well to do individuals and corporate organisations to give back to the society and in the process complement government’s efforts at enhancing the quality of lives of the citizenry, particularly the masses. This was a request that Otunba Yomi Ogunnusi, an Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, member in the Federal House of Representatives recently heeded and acted upon.

It is not an overstatement to say it would require some level of creativity or professional competence to turn an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities that are to take place there. Gloria at 25, CEO of Smiley Signature Shopping, an interior Real Home decoration enterprise is making a difference in her community.

HAM or Jaba land, in Jaba Local Government Area of Kaduna State is popular world-wide as a citadel of an ancient civilisation of iron dating back centuries before Christ was born. Nok village in Ham land is sited beside gaping caves on the foot of the rugged Nok hill, a strolling distance from Koi, the administrative headquarters of Jaba land.

THE Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, is saddled with the responsibility of bringing sanity to roads in Nigeria in order to curb the rate of accidents on the various highways. In the estimation of some observers, the Commission’s operatives have been doing this to the best of their abilities. They are usually called to a great deal of task in the last quarter of every year which have been tagged the “EMBER” months, a period that has come to be associated with more accidents and loss of lives on our highways.

Kunle is one young Nigerian who started volunteer work quite early and he has since turned his passion into creating opportunities for other young people who want to become entrepreneurs. He quitted his banking job to follow his passion —Entertainment Media. Recently, he had a chat with Youthful Vibes Vanguard. Excerpts:

BUT for the intervention of a non-governmental organisation, Rural Health Africa Initiative, RAHI, which set up a reprieve camp for flood victims in Patani and surrounding communities in Delta and Bayelsa states in particular, the Federal Government would have had a major health disaster in its hands because of improper management of the devastating flood.

“You are not farmers; you are agricpreneurs.” -Obioma Liyel-Imoke, wife of the Cross River State Governor.

FOLLOWING the deportation of a large number of Nigeria nationals under harsh and unfriendly treatment from South Africa early this year, with a flimsy excuse of having produced fake Yellow Fever Vaccine cards, and perhaps, unauthenticated documentation, a victim who refused to disclose his full names for reason of security, but simply demanded to be identified as Baldwin was up to his limits as he narrated his ordeal through processes of deportation from South Africa.

Your first encounter with Jennifer leaves you with a strong impression that she is cut out for a career in journalism. Jennifer who is only 28 years old has travelled far and wide using her pen to inspire positive change around the world.

THE people of Omuokiri-Aluu community in ObiaAkpo Local Government Area of Rivers state did not envisage the outcry that has continued to trail the brutal murder of four students of the University of Port Harcourt last week Friday in the community.

In all spheres of socio-economic development of Nigeria, there have been traces of failure which have given rise for calls for drastic measures to be taken in order to improve on the country’s present status of a failing economy. Nigeria is today at the bottom of other African countries in terms of socio-economic development.

However, for the Yoruba leader, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti exonerated Chief Obafemi Awolowo in the pogrom and genocide that led to the killing of millions of Igbos during the civil war. He told Ishola Balogun that what Nigeria needs at the moment is how to consolidate on her unity which is currently under threat.