On September 28, 2009, the board of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund sent the managing director, Chief Enuora Okoli on compulsory leave. Since then, he has been out of office but the Nigeria police has been busy investigating the allegations against him. Surprisingly, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) was not brought in.

Ten secondary schools in Borno State are the latest beneficiaries of the MultiChoice Resource Centre which is an audio-visual learning aid designed to facilitate effective teaching and learning. The launch held on Tuesday last week at the Government College, Maiduguri.

A LEADING fruit juice and other consumables, manufacturing company, Chi Limited, is presently at loggerheads with an ex-staff of the company, Mr. Taiwo Oyelami, over the treatment of his left ear that requires surgery as a result of injuries sustained in an industrial accident in the course of his work.

Private school owners under the umbrella of Association for Formidable Educational Development (AFED) have pleaded that the Lagos State Government should revisit the contentious aspect of its policy which does not allow the use of converted structures.

Every child deserves a home and love;he or she must have a sense of belonging in the society or family. When this is absent in a child’s life, there is every tendency for him or her to take to the street.

These are not the best of times for a 62 -year- old woman, Grace Iroro. This is because she has to spend about 365 days of her life inside the confines of prison custody as she was sentenced to a 12- month -jail term with hard labour by an Ikeja High Court, over an attempt to swindle the sum of N17.5 million from a banker.

Nobody saw it coming. Not even seers. For victims and families of the sad incident, last Saturday would forever remain a black day in their lives. Port Harcourt going by its industrial nature is a very busy town. Like the saying goes, “no food for lazy man”. This probably was the driving spirit of most of the victims of the sad incident who defied the heavy downpour that morning to be on the streets to eke out a living

The Anambra State governorship election, together with its outcome, has continued to be the talking point among parliamentarians in Lagos and elsewhere in the country. This was precisely the case at the Cele Bus-stop along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway recently. It began with a parliamentarian, Chuks Morka, expressing happiness at Governor Peter Obi’s victory and re-election at the polls.

IT was cheery news recently when Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and his Abia State counterpart, Governor Theodore Orji, promised at the end of their meeting in Port Harcourt, to partner with a view to addressing the security challenges in border towns between the two states.

Getting to the country home of Chief Mbazulike Amechi in Ukpor Nnewi, was no easy task, even in a Jeep. But when we eventually got there on Wednesday, February 3rd 2010, we met a man of 80 plus a couple of months still standing tall, still handsome and still very sharp in the mind and memory. Our mission was to encounter him in this interview to get a clearer picture of some historical issues surrounding the early political life of Nigeria before it degenerated to the sorry state in which we find ourselves. When I was through with him, he autographed three of his books which I have since found to be invaluable for the better understanding of Nigeria’s early beginnings. It is my pleasure to present to you, Chief Amechi, A PLEASURABLE READ.