Brig-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia is indeed an army officer who says it the way he sees it. When he spoke with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, he was blunt on the contentious issue of posting corps members to volatile areas where several of them were killed by insurgents last year. According to him, female corps members now receive marshal arts training and members will no longer be posted to areas where their lives could be threatened. Excerpts:

Councillor Adedamola Aminu, a Labour Party member in the UK, is the Deputy Cabinet Member for Children and Young People for London Borough of Lambeth. He is also the chairman of British-Nigerian Councillors in the UK and President of Association of Nigerian Academics.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state received the Champion Man of the Year Award at Sheraton Hotels and Towers Lagos in Lagos, last Tuesday May 16, 2012. Incidentally, the award came barely 24 hours after the Governor led a protest to the Edo state secretariat of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Benin City, where ACN members protested what they described as the alleged illegal registration of voters ahead the July 14 governorship election in the state.

Senator Ben Obi, Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Inter-Party Affairs, is one of the leading South-Easterners noted for his political brilliance.

People of this country are sick of talking about corruption. They have little or no interest in finding out why this cankerworm has continued to eat deep into the fabric of our nation, because corruption has virtually overwhelmed everyone, defying all efforts to halt its rampage. It has become a national way of life.